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Ideas & Opinions — Pauli Halstead: War with Iran will be catastrophic for the U.S. economy
25 Jun 2025 08:39 GMT
… President Bush on October 16, 2002.” — Kucinich
The Iraq war cost U.S. … U.S. servicemen’s lives.
On March 19, 2011, President Obama … , Netanyahu, addressed the U.S. Congress concerning Iran, which he … to align the United States in Netanyahu’s deranged global …
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U.S. war decision looms: what it means for your wallet
19 Jun 2025 21:35 GMT
… weapons ambitions. While the U.S. economy currently shows strength … inflation—experts warn that U.S. involvement could disrupt … Israel’s Netanyahu urged the U.S. to act on Iraq’s alleged … weapons of mass destruction—never found—and that war cost …
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Israel-Iran war recalls the 2003 US invasion of Iraq – a war my undergraduate students see as a relic of the past
26 Jun 2025 16:26 GMT
… not asked Congress to formally declare war against Iran.
The United States’ involvement … invasion.
The war cost the U.S. over $2 trillion.
And Iraq is still dealing … 2000 presidential elections, the Bush presidency, the immediate U.S. responses to 9 …
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Meet Joe Lieberman, the man who would have been the first Jewish U.S. vice president
25 Feb 2025 21:34 GMT
… Martin Luther King Jr.‘s March on Washington, which inspired him … bid for Congress, he was elected Connecticut’s Attorney General … his support for the war cost him the Democratic Senate … grandson would end up a United States senator and, incidentally, a …
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If You’ve Watched Ken Burns’ Vietnam Documentary, Do You Need Netflix’s?
30 Apr 2025 19:45 GMT
… United States was paying for roughly 80 percent of France’s war costs … United States? According to Netflix’s capsule summary for the first episode, Washington … in its examination of U.S. political and social … recent American invasion of Iraq. Another, as …
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‘Warfare’s Starry Cast Can’t Replicate ‘Civil War’s Box Office Success
13 Apr 2025 21:51 GMT
… by Alex Garland and the Iraq War veteran Ray Mendoza, Warfare … against the backdrop of the Iraq War — Green Zone and Stop … million less than what Civil War cost — the movie made over $8 … becomes the best tribute to U.S. veterans that it could possibly …
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‘Coalition of the Willing’: It’s the Iraq War All Over Again!
04 Mar 2025 04:19 GMT
… Bush in Prague. “However, should he choose not to disarm, the United States … — if nothing else — remind Washington that London was its biggest … away from Ukraine.
The Iraq War cost us $728 billion. About … 's address to a joint session of Congress. All …
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Trump Must Finish The Job In Iraq
16 Feb 2025 13:48 GMT
… “the U.S. is inadvertently subsidizing groups the U.S. itself has … at the Washington Institute, means that “Iraq is a … —physically and emotionally. The war cost U.S. taxpayers over a trillion … regional stability and U.S. interests.
The U.S. has the leverage …
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How Jim Leach got it right on his most important vote, on Iraq
14 Dec 2024 13:24 GMT
… in the Port Authority.
The U.S. launched a war on terror … U.N. inspectors into Iraq and they found no evidence of WMD. Bush … Sunni, as Jim predicted. The war cost 4,431 American lives, 32 … our most important vote in Congress. Jim was right and prescient …
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Janet Simmon: The US is bombing Iran based on false threat perceptions
26 Jun 2025 00:42 GMT
… Iraq whose “weapons of mass destruction” did not exist. Yet the U.S … . squandered more than $2 trillion and that war cost over … the agreement that the Obama administration and Iran signed … to distrust the U.S.
I call on the U.S. Congress to fulfill …