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"By 2010, war costs are likely to exceed a half-trillion dollars, according to nonpartisan congressional researchers. ...

Since 2003, Congress has given the Defense Department $183 billion for Iraq, while appropriating $25 more billion to other agencies operating in Iraq, for a total of $208 billion, CRS says.

During the presidential campaign, the Bush team attacked challenger John Kerry for asserting that the war would cost $200 billion."

"Eighty-nine Democratic members of the U.S. Congress last week sent President George W. Bush a letter asking for explanation of a secret British memo that said "intelligence and facts were being fixed" to support the Iraq war in mid-2002. ...

British officials did not dispute the document's authenticity..."

"A sad day for American forces in the continuing battle to bring democracy to the nation of Iraq. Military officials confirm the number of U.S. casualties in the war effort has now surpassed 1,600. ... The number of Iraqi soldiers killed is reportedly more than 2,000 and civilian deaths estimated to be between 21,000 and 25,000."

"Let's do the math. Divide 400,000 by Saddam's 24 years in power. It averages an astounding 17,000 Iraqis slaughtered per year, about 1,400 per month.

We toppled Saddam two years ago. That means today, there are more than 30,000 Iraqi men, women and children who are alive because Saddam and his Baathist thugs aren't there to kill them. ...

'Your argument assumes a great deal,' he told me. 'It assumes Saddam had the same power in 2003 that he had in 1989, which he did not. ...'"

"Downing Street has admitted to The Observer that repeated claims by Tony Blair that '400,000 bodies had been found in Iraqi mass graves' is untrue, and only about 5,000 corpses have so far been uncovered."

Good things in Iraq not being reported-Truth!, Fiction!, and Unproven!