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Article: Keep up the pressure to end Iraq war.(Commentary)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- March 14, 2008
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Byline: Michael Corrigan and Scott Burgwin For The Register-Guard
A year ago, President George W. Bush announced his new Iraq strategy: a "surge" of more U.S. troops. The surge has "worked" in reselling the Iraq war to the media, but it's a failure for the people of Iraq and the United States.
The war in Iraq has created one of the world's largest and fastest growing humanitarian crises.
Estimates of Iraqi deaths range from 100,000 to 1 million. Nearly 8 million Iraqis A-- one-third of the population - need humanitarian aid. Some 2 million Iraqis are refugees in neighboring countries, and more than 2 million more are displaced within Iraq. ...