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Whatever their exact affiliation and degree of organization, all the militants are pursuing the same objective: to force the U.S. out of Iraq. Their strategy is to create chaos and destabilize the country. Attacks against the people trying to rebuild the country aim, no doubt, to show Iraqis that the U.S. can't govern the country and convince the Americans that the effort is too costly...
...have seen them all. Rifle fire. Roadside bombs, or improvised explosive devices, as the U.S. military calls them. RPGs. Mortar fire. Suicide car bombs. Some days it feels as if Iraqis opposing the U.S. presence are throwing everything they can at the young soldiers and the locals helping them rebuild the country. Some weeks are better than others, but the drumbeat of attacks persists, and the drip-drip of casualties isn't letting up. Despite the best efforts of field commanders, the U.S.-led coalition is still struggling to contain the threat. And the latest spasm of attacks has only...
...billion Amount of aid pledged to rebuild Iraq by the U.S. (which is donating $20 billion) and 72 other countries...
...billion Amount the World Bank says is needed to rebuild Iraq over four years...
...packed.) And in 1992, the first President Bush famously vomited and collapsed in the middle of a sumptuous Japanese dinner. The current President Bush's 16-hour layover in Tokyo, beginning last Friday, proved more convivial, thanks to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's recent pledge of $1.5 billion to rebuild Iraq...