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	Clipmarks | Vietnam Clips More Money Flowing into Iraq clipped by: BobbyDelray clippers remarks: U.S. economy could fall casualty to wars. Clip Source: www.cnn.com The flow of blood may be ebbing, but the flood of money into the Iraq war is steadily rising, new analyses show. In 2008, its sixth year, the war will cost approximately $12 billion a month, triple the "burn" rate of its earliest years Beyond 2008, working with "best-case" and "realistic-moderate" scenarios, they project the Iraq and Afghan wars, including long-term U.S. military occupations of those countries, will cost the U.S. budget between $1.7 trillion and $2.7 trillion -- or more -- by 2017. Interest on money borrowed to pay those costs could alone add $816 billion to that bottom line, they say. A boy rests at an Iraqi refugee camp in June. Economists say its hard to calculate the social costs of war. That total far surpasses the $670 billion in 2007 dollars the Congressional Research Service says was the U.S. price tag for the 12-year Vietnam War. Tags: iraq, war, cost zum Artikel... Anzeige Veterans Against the War Testimony 1971 & 2008 clipped by: righthand clippers remarks: "Over the border they send us to kill and to fight for a cause theyve long ago forgotten." These lines of Paul Simons recall to Vietnam veterans the causes for which we went to fight in Vietnam and the outrages we were part of because the men who sent us had long ago forgotten the meaning of the words. Tom Paine wrote, "Those are the times that try mens souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will in this crisis shrink from the service of his country, but he that stands it now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman." The vets will testify in panels arranged by the combat units in which they fought so that it will be easy to see the policy of each division and thus the larger policy. Each day there will be a special panel during the hours of testimony. Today, a panel on weaponry will explain the use and effects of some of the vicious and illegal weapons used in Vietnam. Tomorrow there will be a panel on prisoners of war composed of returned POWs, parents o Clip Source: www.alternet.org 1971 Winter Soldier Hearings: Opening Statement by William Crandell, 1st Marine Division "We went to preserve the peace and our testimony will show that we have set all of Indochina aflame." Iraq Veterans Against the War is holding a new round of "Winter Soldier" hearings in Washington We went to fight for freedom and our testimony will show that we have turned Vietnam into a series of concentration camps We went to guarantee the right of self-determination to the people of South Vietnam and our testimony will show that we are forcing a corrupt and dictatorial government upon them our strategy and tactics are permeated with racism our testimony will show why our country is being torn apart by what we are doing in Vietnam we veterans of Vietnam know that America is in grave danger What threatens our country is not Redcoats or even Reds it is our crimes that are destroying our national unity veterans will present straightforward testimony about acts which are war crimes under international law 1971 Tags: history, vietnam, war, usa zum Artikel... Für die Inhalte dieses Feeds ist alleine der jeweilige Autor/Anbieter verantwortlich. Die Inhalte stellen nicht die Meinung von EasyRSS dar. Dies ist eine automatisch generierte E-Mail. Bitte antworten Sie nicht auf diese E-Mail. Wenn Sie Feedback an EasyRSS senden wollen, nutzen Sie bitte das Feedback Forumlar. Wenn Sie sich von EasyRSS abmelden wollen, gehen Sie bitte auf den Menüpunkt "Meine Daten". Ihr EasyRSS Team http://www.easyrss.de