posted on 07-24-2008 at 07:45AM
by Travis Sharp (The Iraq Insider) Download the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation's new July 2008 war costs fact sheet. In June 2008, Congress passed, and President Bush signed into law, another $162 billion in funding for ongoing military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. With enactment of these funds, the Department of Defense will have ...
posted on 06-04-2008 at 12:34PM
National Call-In Day on Iran Tuesday, June 10th Tell Congress You Want Direct Dialogue Not War with Iran The same people who called for attacking Iraq now are raising the drumbeat for military action against Iran. Despite the November 2007 U.S. National Intelligence Estimate concluding that Iran had halted its nuclear weapons prog...
posted on 04-04-2008 at 01:08PM
In preperation for General Petraeus' hearing to Congress next week on Iraq (huge deal), the Council prepared a list of questions that could be asked and sent them to members of Congress and thier staffs. We expect that one of them, or a variation of them, will be used. We'll let you know if so, and of course, send you analysis on what the hearings will me...
posted on 04-01-2008 at 07:00AM
On Saturday, April 12th, the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, American University’s Nuclear Studies Institute, and Americans for Informed Democracy are sponsoring an all-day conference at American University in Washington, DC titled Think Outside the Bomb. Think Outside the Bomb provides students and young professionals with the opportunity to enga...
posted on 03-19-2008 at 01:27PM
From Erik Leaver and Jenny Shin via FPIF (PDF here): U.S. military killed in Iraq: 3,973 Number of U.S. troops wounded in combat since the war began: 29,203 Iraqi Security Force deaths: 7,924 Iraqi civilians killed: Estimates range from 81,632-1,120,000 Internally displaced refugees in Iraq: 3.4 million Iraqi refugees living abroad: 2.2-2.4 million Iraq...
posted on 03-11-2008 at 09:54AM
Council staff member Travis Sharp just posted this blog entry over at his blog, Iraq Insider. It's worth a read. New Pentagon study reaffirms no Al Qaeda-Saddam link McClatchy reports that the Pentagon will release an exhaustive study of the old Iraqi regime's archives later this week that concludes that there was no "direct operational link" betwee...
posted on 02-06-2008 at 10:16AM
The Council for a Livable World advocates to pull troops out of Iraq and strongly opposes a permanent U.S. military presence in the country. Already, we've lost over 4,000 U.S. lives, 35,000 U.S. soldiers have been wounded, and upward of 100,000 Iraqi civilian lives have been lost. But often times, we don't see the human side of the war. Tell us, write ab...
posted on 02-05-2008 at 08:19AM
The war in Iraq and Afghanistan has already cost the United States upward of $700 billion – but we can't afford the war in more ways than just monetary value. A new congressional commission report was released just a few days ago that said there is an "appalling gap" in our readiness to defend ourselves against a catastrophic event within our b...
