A New Reason for the Iraq War

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Wednesday August 31, 2005 · 12:20 PM PDT

2005/08/31 · 12:20

Well guess no more. Among the litany of reasons for invading Iraq I think Bush has finally come as close as he is going to come as to why we are there:

During a speech in California, Bush came up with a whole new justification for the war in Iraq: It's about the oil.
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Some HIghly Opinionated Numbers

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Tuesday August 30, 2005 · 1:02 PM PDT

2005/08/30 · 13:02

I think these stats tell quite a story of who gains and who loses under the Bush Presidency. These are from today!

Average CEO makes 430 times
the salaray of the average production worker in 2004. Up from 301-1 in 2003. Up from 109-1 in 1990.

http://www.thinkprogress.org/

This from the AP
The nation's poverty rate rose to 12.7 percent of the population last year, the fourth consecutive annual increase, the Census Bureau said Tuesday.

The last decline in overall poverty was in 2000, when 31.1 million people lived under the threshold -- 11.3 percent of the population. Since then, the rate has increased steadily from 11.7 percent in 2001, when the economy slipped into recession, to 12.5 percent in 2003.

The number of people without health insurance grew from 45 million to 45.8 million. At the same time the number of people with health insurance coverage grew by 2 million last year.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050830/ ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/census_poverty; _ylt=Ai4NvUPtvWAihR_709BttxVI2ocA; _ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

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