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Iraq: Gulf War
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With the advantage of hindsight it seems clear that a lack of strategic planning affected private sector operations in Iraq in the same way it affected the regular U.S. military. Coordination of PMCs was deficient and they failed to be given sufficient early warning before the war about how much their services would be needed.
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[I]s the popularity of talk show hosts like Michael Savage (whose most recent quotes on the Iraq war can be found here at Media Matters) saying something bigger about the American public? To me, the popularity of Michael Savage and his frequent comments that would probably be categorized as "hate speech" by most people is just continuing to push the fact that what "the people" want to hear, read and see is not at all what the FCC claims is in demand.
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According to a recent Congressional Research Service report, the U.S. is spending over $10 billion a month in Iraq. “With Congress having already approved $691 billion in war spending since 2001,” the WSJ reports, “the cost of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars combined could rise to just under $900 billion by next spring and could near the $1 trillion mark by the end of 2009.”
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Reconstruction has made scant progress in war-torn Iraq since the March 2003 US invasion. This section covers the many aspects of reconstruction, including Iraq's debt burden and negotiations for debt cancellation, as well as US insistence on a radically deregulated and liberalized Iraqi economy, ready for the eventual investments of the multinational oil giants.
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