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...this December, Operation Iraqi Freedom has run up a bill of $406 billion, according to Defense Department spokesman Brian Maka...
...same time, it should be remembered that the invasion did indeed bring definite advantages to some. These include the Kurds, now safe and relatively secure in their largely autonomous and well-protected enclave in the northeast. They also include some Shiites who gained freedom from persecution and opportunities to advance their interests after the invasion—benefits that may still seem to outweigh the danger and destruction going on all around them. Think of those, for example, who were able to take advantage of the recent American disarmament of Sunni fighters in Baghdad to seize Sunni homes, thus turning...
...Despite these precautions, the death toll for journalists is higher in this war than in any other conflict, according to the non-partisan press foundation, Freedom Forum...
...keep with it. We expected things to be good, because people had started talking that the Americans were coming, and we expected things to be good for us. Well, it's happened, and in the early days, it was good. You had freedom. You could talk, and then suddenly things started coming down. This is the way I would put it. It kept going down. And it didn't go the way America had promised it would happen, if you know what I mean. I don't know...
...Religious freedom, these grad-student editorialists contend, should consist solely in private beliefs—to which they concede unimpeachable liberty—which, when loudly proclaimed in such public venues as Harvard Yard from the exalted library portico, bring division to the pluralistic campus community...