THE US, THE UN AND IRAQ, ELEVENTH THREAD

ican continues to make claims he can't back up with evidence. Typical ican post; just ignore him.

http://intelligence.senate.gov/phaseiiaccuracy.pdf
Postwar information indicates that the Intelligence Community accurately assessed that al-Qa'ida affiliate group Ansar al-Islam operated in Kurdish-controlled northeastern Iraq

American Soldier, by General Tommy Franks, 7/1/2004
"10" Regan Books, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers

page 483:
"The air picture changed once more. Now the icons were streaming toward two ridges and a steep valley in far northeastern Iraq, right on the border with Iran. These were the camps of the Ansar al-Isla terrorists, where al Qaeda leader Abu Musab Zarqawi had trained disciples in the use of chemical and biological weapons. But this strike was more than just another [Tomahawk Land Attack Missile] bashing. Soon Special Forces and [Special Mission Unit] operators, leading Kurdish Peshmerga fighters, would be storming the camps, collecting evidence, taking prisoners, and killing all those who resisted."

page 519:
"The Marines] also encountered several hundred foreign fighters from Egypt, the Sudan, Syria, and Lybia who were being trained by the regime in a camp south of Baghdad. Those foreign volunteers fought with suicidal ferocity, but they did not fight well. The Marines killed them all."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansar_al-Islam
Ansar al-Islam was formed in December 2001.
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Ansar al-Islam comprised about 300 armed men, many of these veterans from the Afghan war, and a proportion being neither Kurd nor Arab. Ansar al-Islam is alleged to be connected to al-Qaeda, and provided an entry point for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and other Afghan veterans to enter Iraq.

www.c-span.org/resources/pdf/hjres114.pdf
Public Law 107-243 107th Congress Joint Resolution Oct. 16, 2002 (H.J. Res. 114) To authorize the use of United States Armed Forces against Iraq
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[TRUE] Whereas Iraq persists in violating resolution of the United Nations Security Council by continuing to engage in brutal repression of its civilian population thereby threatening international peace and security in the region, by refusing to release, repatriate, or account for non-Iraqi citizens wrongfully detained by Iraq, including an American serviceman, and by failing to return property wrongfully seized by Iraq from Kuwait;

[TRUE] Whereas members of al Qaida, an organization bearing responsibility for attacks on the United States, its citizens, and interests, including the attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, are known to be in Iraq;

[TRUE] Whereas Iraq continues to aid and harbor other international terrorist organizations, including organizations that threaten the lives and safety of United States citizens;
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Now, after 750,000 dead civilians in Iraq, the NeoCons get a conscious? Give me a break!

http://www.iraqbodycount.org/database/
Documented civilian deaths from violence [2003 - 2009]

92,345 " 100,820
...Monthly table
.....2003.....2004.....2005.....2006.....2007.....2008.....2009
Jan.....3.....568.....1035.....1430.....2806.....742.....275
Feb.....2.....604.....1201.....1449.....2536.....1007.....343
Mar.....3976.....957.....786.....1789.....2614.....1538.....415
Apr.....3437.....1256.....1025.....1590.....2436.....1260.....483
May.....545.....619.....1226.....2103.....2769.....59.....298
Jun.....593.....833.....1215.....2426.....2108.....669
Jul.....650.....762..... 1444.....3159.....2568.....583
Aug.....790.....823.....2165.....2743.....2329.....591
Sep.....553.....943.....1330.....2408.....1221.....535
Oct.....493.....947.....1201.....2924.....1185..... 527
Nov.....478.....1533.....1208.....2969.....1043.....472
Dec.....529.....906.....996.....2662.....903.....521
Tot.12,049.....10,751.....14,832.....27,652.....24,518.....9,204.....1,814

Americans now know that these six years of the Iraq war have been a reign of death unparalleled in recent military history. Besides the 4,239 American Military causalities, and over 100,000 American Military wounded there have also been an estimated 1,320,100 Iraqi civilian deaths.

BillW wrote:

Now, after 750,000 dead civilians in Iraq, the NeoCons get a conscious? Give me a break!

And how many lives have been saved?

Too many - there are primarily in Pakistan, but at least Obama makes attempts to and policies against. Still, his time is running very short....