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What is the true cost of the Afghanistan war? Narrated by Tony Benn. Music by Brian Eno.
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Bill Moyers Journal PBS : Media Analysis Supreme Court Nominee Sonia Sotomayor, Healthcare Reform / Jeremy Scahill on the Costs of War $14.99 In this edition of the Journal, Bill Moyers is joined by NPR’s Brooke Gladstone and NYU journalism professor and PressThink blogger Jay Rosen to sort out the messages and spin regarding the media frenzy over U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor and the swiftboating of healthcare reform. Also, Moyers and award-winning investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill examine the total costs-financial, … |
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HDNet World Report #521: Gavin Newsom … |
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Once a Warrior–Always a Warrior: Navigating the Transition from Combat to Home–Including Combat Stress, PTSD, and mTBI $8.18 The essential handbook for anyone who has ever returned from a war zone, and their spouse, partner, or family members. Being back home can be as difficult, if not more so, than the time spent serving in a combat zone. It’s with this truth that Colonel Charles W. Hoge, MD, a leading advocate for eliminating the stigma of mental health care, presents Once a Warrior—Always a Warrior, a gro… |
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The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict $5.50 The true cost of the Iraq War is $3 trillion—and counting—rather than the $50 billion projected by the White House. Apart from its tragic human toll, the Iraq War will be staggeringly expensive in financial terms. This sobering study by Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz and Harvard professor Linda J. Bilmes casts a spotlight on expense items that have been hidden from the U.S. taxpay… |
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Paying the Human Costs of War: American Public Opinion and Casualties in Military Conflicts $23.22 From the Korean War to the current conflict in Iraq, Paying the Human Costs of War examines the ways in which the American public decides whether to support the use of military force. Contrary to the conventional view, the authors demonstrate that the public does not respond reflexively and solely to the number of casualties in a conflict. Instead, the book argues that the public makes reasoned an… |
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Iraq Soccer Pride T-Shirt $17.99 Iraq Soccer Pride T-Shirt. Iraq is the reigning champions of the Asian Football Confederation. Show your national pride in this Iraq tee. 100% cotton. Imported. |
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Iraq Football Pride T-Shirt $17.99 Iraq Football Pride T-Shirt. Iraq is the reigning champions of the Asian Football Confederation. Show your national pride in this Iraq tee. 100% cotton. Imported. |
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Iraq T-Shirt $15.99 Iraq T-Shirt. Show your support for the 2007 AFC Asian Cup winner and 2009 Conferdations Cup winner, Iraq. 100% cotton. Imported.T-shirt will ship in 3-5 business days. |
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Iraq Soccer Pride T-Shirt White XL $17.99 Iraq Soccer Pride T-Shirt. Iraq is the reigning champions of the Asian Football Confederation. Show your national pride in this Iraq tee. 100% cotton. Imported. |
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Iraq Football Pride T-Shirt White L $17.99 Iraq Football Pride T-Shirt. Iraq is the reigning champions of the Asian Football Confederation. Show your national pride in this Iraq tee. 100% cotton. Imported. |
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Iraq Football Pride T-Shirt White M $17.99 Iraq Football Pride T-Shirt. Iraq is the reigning champions of the Asian Football Confederation. Show your national pride in this Iraq tee. 100% cotton. Imported. |
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Iraq Football Pride T-Shirt White S $17.99 Iraq Football Pride T-Shirt. Iraq is the reigning champions of the Asian Football Confederation. Show your national pride in this Iraq tee. 100% cotton. Imported. |
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Iraq Soccer Pride T-Shirt White M $17.99 Iraq Soccer Pride T-Shirt. Iraq is the reigning champions of the Asian Football Confederation. Show your national pride in this Iraq tee. 100% cotton. Imported. |
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Iraq Soccer Pride T-Shirt White S $17.99 Iraq Soccer Pride T-Shirt. Iraq is the reigning champions of the Asian Football Confederation. Show your national pride in this Iraq tee. 100% cotton. Imported. |
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Iraq Soccer Pride T-Shirt White L $17.99 Iraq Soccer Pride T-Shirt. Iraq is the reigning champions of the Asian Football Confederation. Show your national pride in this Iraq tee. 100% cotton. Imported. |
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Aliens and Cowboys: (Bush’s Legacy of Lies) $15.32 In the first four years the Bush White House allowed a former lobbyist for the American Petroleum Institute to re-write a government report on global warming, editing out scientific conclusions he didn’t like. Bush’s Interior Department offered to overpay a wealthy Republican donor for oil and gas rights on Everglades land that the government already owns.The Pentagon’s inspector general released a report on a lucrative Air Force contract for Boeing that cost too much for planes the military didn’t want. Perhaps the White House pushed for the contract because Boeing was a generous contributor to the Bush/Cheney reelection campaign? Former big tobacco employees now working as Bush officials at the Justice Department reduced its settlement request with the tobacco industry from $130 billion to $10 billion. Echoes of Watergate fill the air with names like Enron, Halliburton, and Jeff Gannon (a gay prostitute) being linked to the White House. Bush’s failures include lying about Weapons of Mass Destruction to justify the Iraq War, soaring gas prices, privatizing social security, and granting amnesty to illegal Aliens. The press has mostly buried the failures of this administration. But that’s no surprise during the past four years the press has been missing in action. Aliens and Cowboys tells the truth about George W. Bush proving he’s the most corrupt president since Richard M. Nixon. |
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America’s War with Saddam $18.05 In August of 1990, the cancerous cost of America’s past sins slipped out of its nest and invaded its neighbor, Kuwait. During the 1980′s the United States had turned a blind eye to the world’s support of Saddam in his invasion and subsequent war with Iran. Hussein was to serve as a proxy fighter for the U.S. against Iran. The weight of the Vietnam War still prevented sustained American military action abroad, and when Saddam needed to know when Iran was about to attack, the U.S. happily sent him satellite photos to prepare stronger defenses. At the same time, the U.S. was arming Iran via the Iran-Contra Scandal, but the strategy of encouraging tyrannical regimes to bleed each other white was running out. After millions had died in America’s proxy fight, Saddam’s debts forced him to invade Kuwait and gain the oil needed to repay Europe and the Soviets.Operation Desert Storm was the first battle in America’s War With Saddam.After the 1991 Cease-Fire Agreement was signed, the American people washed their hands of Iraq, and had to endure little more than the nightly news 2-3 minute reminders. Despite the massive death toll in Iraq, for Americans, the period between Operation Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom was ignored. Everyone heard about the infamous Gulf War Syndrome, its 300,000+ cases, and even the 11,000+ Americans who died from their service in Operation Desert Storm, but with little if any attention was paid by the Average westerner. In the eyes of Saddam, the average Iraqi, and in the pages of history, the two Gulf Wars are but one event. From the invasion of Kuwait through his final defeat in Operation Iraqi Freedom, this is the complete story of America’s WarWith Saddam.Iraq’s Smoking GunHow Did It Come To This: The American Experience in the New World OrderThe Ignored WarandSaddam’s Ties to Al Queda |
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Dawn over Baghdad: How the U.S. Military Is Using Bullets and Ballots to Remake Iraq $0.99 THIS IS A COMPLETELY FRESH, close-up look at the guerilla struggle in Iraq. It is built on weeks spent re-embedded with U.S. soldiers in the most dangerous parts of the Sunni Triangle in early 2004, direct polling of Iraqis, and unmatched reporting on combat raids, interrogations, daily diplomacy, and reconstruction heroics. It follows the author’s “Boots on the Ground: A Month with the 82nd Airborne in the Battle for Iraq,” which was the first book from an embedded reporter describing the toppling of Saddam Hussein. Gripping, perceptive, funny, and bluntly honest, “Boots” became the most popular chronicle of the hot war in Iraq. Now Karl Zinsmeister has again beaten the pack with this groundbreaking sequel on the counterinsurgency phase of the war. This is a powerful, cliché-smashing, up-to-the-minute report on America’s most urgent national struggle, as seen through the eyes of ordinary Iraqis and the U.S. servicemen doing today’s dirty work. “Dawn Over Baghdad” takes you into Iraq’s urban neighborhoods, rural villages, and guerilla snake pits, and shows exactly how young American soldiers are quietly but inexorably choking off a terrorist insurrection and planting the seeds (sometimes at great personal cost) of a dramatically different Middle East. Zinsmeister brings home a fascinating, intimate, and insightful story missed by the major media: With the quiet cooperation of millions of everyday Iraqis, the U.S. is approaching something historic — success in a tough guerilla war. Includes a 32-page section of color photos taken by the author. |
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Erasing Iraq: The Human Costs of Carnage $80 For nearly two decades, the US and its allies have prosecuted war and aggression in Iraq. Erasing Iraq shows in unparalleled detail the devastating human cost.Western governments and the mainstream media continue to ignore or play down the human costs of the war on Iraqi citizens This has allowed them to present their role as the benign guardians of Iraqi interests. The authors deconstruct this narrative by presenting a portrait of the total carnage in Iraq today as told by Iraqis and other witnesses who experienced it first hand.Featuring in-depth interviews with Iraqi refugees in Syria, Jordan and from Western countries, Erasing Iraq is a comprehensive and moving account of the Iraqi people’s tragedy. |
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In Time of War: Understanding American Public Opinion from World War II to Iraq $59.9 From World War II to the war in Iraq, periods of international conflict seem like unique moments in U.S. political history—but when it comes to public opinion, they are not. To make this groundbreaking revelation, In Time of War explodes conventional wisdom about American reactions to World War II, as well as the more recent conflicts in Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Adam Berinsky argues that public response to these crises has been shaped less by their defining characteristics—such as what they cost in lives and resources—than by the same political interests and group affiliations that influence our ideas about domestic issues. With the help of World War II–era survey data that had gone virtually untouched for the past sixty years, Berinsky begins by disproving the myth of “the good war” that Americans all fell in line to support after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. The attack, he reveals, did not significantly alter public opinion but merely punctuated interventionist sentiment that had already risen in response to the ways that political leaders at home had framed the fighting abroad. Weaving his findings into the first general theory of the factors that shape American wartime opinion, Berinsky also sheds new light on our reactions to other crises. He shows, for example, that our attitudes toward restricted civil liberties during Vietnam and after 9/11 stemmed from the same kinds of judgments we make during times of peace. With Iraq and Afghanistan now competing for attention with urgent issues within the United States, In Time of War offers a timely reminder of the full extent to which foreign and domestic politics profoundly influence—and ultimately illuminate—each other. |
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Nimo’s War, Emma’s War: Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq War $60 “Nimo’s War, Emma’s War is unique in examining the gendered dimension of the Iraq war, particularly its impact on ordinary Iraqi and American women, thereby revealing an important long-term cost of the conflict. Cynthia Enloe’s approach and analysis are extremely original and innovative.”–Nadje Al-Ali, author of What Kind of Liberation?: Women and the Occupation of Iraq”Nimo’s War, Emma’s War is Cynthia Enloe’s darkest and most strikingly conceived text to date. War is not ‘in’ Iraq and Afghanistan, where foreign militaries confront local people, rather it is everywhere, most particularly in ‘peacetime’ domestic spaces, ‘civilian’ employment, marital bedrooms and high schools.”–Terrell Carver, author of Politics, Language and Metaphor”Cynthia Enloe has pioneered the subject of women, militarism, and war in a series of revelatory books, including Bananas, Beaches, and Bases, The Morning After: Sexual Politics at the End of the Cold War, and Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women’s Lives. Nimo’s War, Emma’s War is her best one yet.”–Chalmers Johnson, author of The Blowback Trilogy”Brilliantly researched, vividly written, Cynthia Enloe has gifted us with a new and different story of modern warfare. Entirely gripping and profoundly humane, every page raises new issues. To factor in Nimo and Emma–all the women and families touched by the carnage and agony of war, is to see the bitter range of tragedy community by community. To read this book is to ask: What are we doing to our children–all our children, combatants and civilians? How do women cope with post-war wounds and violence–agony, wreckage, displacement? Cynthia Enloe’s book is essential reading for all students and journalists, public citizens and peace activists, who seek women’s dignity, healthy societies, humane alternatives to the insanity of careless military destruction.”–Blanche Wiesen |
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Operation Homecoming: Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Home Front, in the Words of U. S. Troops and Their Families $27.95 “Here is what you will not find in the news–the personal cost of war written as clear and beautiful as literature worthy of the name is. These stories are the real thing, passionate, imaginative, searing.”–Richard Bausch, author of Wives & LoversThe first book of its kind, Operation Homecoming is the result of a major initiative launched by the National Endowment for the Arts to bring distinguished writers to military bases and inspire U.S. Marines, soldiers, sailors, and airmen and their families to record their wartime experiences. Encouraged by such authors as Tom Clancy, Mark Bowden, Bobbie Ann Mason, Tobias Wolff, Jeff Shaara, and Marilyn Nelson, American military personnel and their loved ones wrote candidly about what they saw, heard, and felt while in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as on the home front. Taken together, these almost one hundred never-before-published eyewitness accounts, private journals, short stories, letters, and other personal writings become a dramatic narrative that shows the human side of warfare.• the fear and exhilaration of heading into battle;• the interactions between U.S. forces and Afghans and Iraqis, both as enemies and friends;• the boredom, gripes, and humorous incidents of day-to-day life on the front lines;• the anxiety and heartache of worried spouses, parents, and other loved ones on the home front;• the sheer brutality of warfare and the physical and emotional toll it takes on those who fight;• the tearful homecomings for those who returned to the States alive– and the somber ceremonies for those who made the ultimate sacrifice for their nation.From riveting combat accounts to profound reflections on warfare and the pride these troops feel for one another, Operation Homecoming offers an unflinching and intensely revealing look into the lives of extraordinary men and women. What they have written is |
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Red Sea $0.99 THREE PEOPLE DETERMINED TO STOP A DIABOLICAL ATTACK.TWO WEEKS UNTIL DISASTER STRIKES.ONE HEART-POUNDING MISSION…Four airplanes are blown out of the sky…hundreds of civilians are dead, and the world is gripped by fear. As young American reporter Marie Peterssen investigates the attacks, she meets Julian Granot, a mysterious Israeli operative who offers her an enticing lead—one that points them to maverick FBI agent Morgan Ensley and the ravages of war-torn Iraq.”Cagily realistic.”—Library Journal (starred review) Soon Marie, Julian, and Morgan discover a connection between the crashes and a devastating plot to detonate a nuclear bomb in a New York City port—and time is running out. As Marie races to stop a sophisticated network of terrorists, she stumbles upon a shocking revelation: she may have a deep personal connection to the Islamic mastermind behind the attacks. Now she will stop at nothing to uncover the truth. But it could cost Marie and her team the mission…and their lives.”Benedek is a tremendous young talent.” —Stephen Coonts |
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Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq $0.01 America’s leading expert on democracy delivers the first insider’s account of the U.S. occupation of Iraq-a sobering and critical assessment of America’s effort to implant democracy In the fall of 2003, Stanford professor Larry Diamond received a call from Condoleezza Rice, asking if he would spend several months in Baghdad as an adviser to the the American occupation authorities. Diamond had not been a supporter of the war in Iraq, but he felt that the task of building a viable democracy was a worthy goal now that Saddam Hussein’s regime had been overthrown. He also thought he could do some good by putting his academic expertise to work in the real world. So in January 2004 he went to Iraq, and the next three months proved to be more of an education than he bargained for.Diamond found himself part of one of the most audacious undertakings of our time. In Squandered Victory he shows how the American effort to establish democracy in Iraq was hampered not only by insurgents and terrorists but also by a long chain of miscalculations, missed opportunities, and acts of ideological blindness that helped assure that the transition to independence would be neither peaceful nor entirely democratic. He brings us inside the Green Zone, into a world where ideals were often trumped by power politics and where U.S. officials routinely issued edicts that later had to be squared (at great cost) with Iraqi realities. His provocative and vivid account makes clear that Iraq-and by extension, the United States-will spend many years climbing its way out of the hole that was dug during the fourteen months of the American occupation. |
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The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict $22.95 Linda J. Bilmes, Joseph E. Stiglitz,NOOKbook (eBook), English-language edition,Pub by Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc. |