Lonely in Iraq.(Devil in the Details)
American Prospect, The, September, 2003
HOW MANY LIVES OF American soldiers is the administration willing to sacrifice on the altar of its unilateralism?
Maybe a soldier a day is a politically acceptable rate for George W. Bush. It's not quite high enough to rise to the level of a political crisis that might force him to abandon his aversion to letting the United Nations, and its member nations, take a real role in reconstructing Iraq.
The $4 billion monthly bill to the taxpayers may be harder to get around, though. Even members of Bush's own party seem vexed by that, particularly since no one has come up with a ...
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