Lost & Unaccounted for in Iraq - $9 billion of US taxpayers' money
and $549.7 milion in spare parts shipped in 2004 to US contractors.
Also, per ABC News, 190,000 guns, including 110,000 AK-47 rifles.

Missing - $1 billion in tractor trailers, tank recovery vehicles,
machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades and other equipment and
services provided to the Iraqi security forces. (Per CBS News on Dec 6, 2007.)


Mismanaged & Wasted in Iraq - $10 billion, per Feb 2007 Congressional hearings


Halliburton Overcharges Classified by the Pentagon as Unreasonable and Unsupported - $1.4 billion

Amount paid to KBR, a former Halliburton division, to supply U.S.
military in Iraq with food, fuel, housing and other items - $20 billion


Portion of the $20 billion paid to KBR that Pentagon auditors deem "questionable or supportable" - $3.2 billion


Number of major U.S. bases in Iraq - 75

<b>TROOPS IN IRAQ</b>


Iraqi Troops Trained and Able to Function Independent of U.S. Forces - 6,000 as of May 2007 <i>(per NBC's "Meet the Press" on May 20, 2007)</i>

Troops in Iraq - Total 164,891, including 155,000 from the US, 4,500
from the UK, 2,000 from Georgia, 900 from Poland, 650 from South Korea
and 1,841 from all other nations

US Troop Casualities - 4,064 US troops; 98% male. 90% non-officers; 80%
active duty, 12% National Guard; 74% Caucasian, 10% African-American,
11% Latino. 18% killed by non-hostile causes. 51% of US casualties were
under 25 years old. 70% were from the US Army

<b>IRAQI TROOPS, CIVILIANS & OTHERS IN IRAQ</b>


Private Contractors in Iraq, Working in Support of US Army Troops - More than 180,000 in August 2007, per The Nation/LA Times.


Journalists killed - 127, 84 by murder and 43 by acts of war


Journalists killed by US Forces - 14


Iraqi Police and Soldiers Killed - 8,219

Iraqi Civilians Killed, Estimated - A UN issued report dated Sept 20,
2006 stating that Iraqi civilian casualities have been significantly
under-reported. Casualties are reported at 50,000 to over 100,000, but
may be much higher. Some informed estimates place Iraqi civilian
casualities at over 600,000.

Roman, Read statistics and tell me after that if war in Iraq is "ok".. it's
easy for you to sit in the office and run your mouth when mothers burying
their kids, think for a second if you would of been there in Iraq for
just one day yourself, I bet you would of changed your mind...

Global warming..:):):)
All four agencies that track Earth's temperature (the Hadley Climate
Research Unit in Britain, the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
in New York, the Christy group at the University of Alabama, and Remote
Sensing Systems Inc in California) report that it cooled by about 0.7C in 2007.
This is the fastest temperature change in the instrumental record and
it puts us back where we were in 1930. If the temperature does not soon
recover, we will have to conclude that global warming is over.
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P.S. What a disappointment for Al Gore..:( :)

Юля, извини, что я тебе не ответил на твое сообщение мне в моем профайле. Я очень хотел бы ограничить нашу переписку этим форумом. Пожалуйста не пиши мне больше. Спасибо за понимание.

Yulya, Lets look at some facts about Iraq, shell we.


1. U.S. Dept of State indicated that CIA reports Sadam's agents searching for resources of purcahsinf enriched uranium.

2. Since removal of Sadam, suicide bombing in Israel dropped by 86%,
why ? because Sadam paid $25,000 to family of every bomber.

3. Sadam financed and budgeted through his national budget, over 15
global terrorist groups inclusing Al Qaida, Hamas, Islamic Jihad and
Hezbolah.

4. U.S. Rangers in three years have recovered: 2 mobile chemical
weapons centers, 86 motor shells for medium ranges rockets capable of
delivering WMD's to just about anywhere in europe and middle east.
Should I continue or you get the idea ?
BY the way out of all the wars since the civil war, only 2 war started by republican presidents, and these are the two lowest causalty wars. They were the current war (less than 1000 soldiers per year) and 1991 Operation Desert Storm in Kuwait.

Oh yeah, almost forget, U.S. Rangers have also recovered Mustard Gas, tons of it. Some say it is not WMD, well lock yourself in a room with that stuff for a couple of minutes, you will chnage your mind, I promise.

As far as your media reports, I don't recomend you listen to a bunch of Ultra Liberal Bias reporter. You ever notice that there are never any reports about good things in Iraq ? Why is it that when 1 soldier dies it on the frint page to say had terrible things are, but when everything in fine, Iraq finds itself on page 20 in a small column ? Ever wonder ? Turn on EuroNews on cable, you will get a totally different stories from european reporters.

Виталий судя по твоим предыдущим сноскам, я сомневался в правидивости этой статьи (oppinion peice might I add) . Почитай что пишет та же газета немного спустя. THE opinion piece by Phil Chapman ("Sorry to ruin the fun, but
an ice age cometh", Opinion, April 22) warns of an approaching ice age
but contains a number of factual errors, misleading statements and
incorrect conclusions.

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Phil Chapman reffers to Hadley center for the numbers, here are the Hudley center predicton for the next 100 years. (They are quite opposite of cooling) ***********.metoffice.gov.uk/research/hadleycentre/models/modeldata.html