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06-17-2005, 01:49 PM
Here's a teaser:
Quote[/b] ]Harper's Index for May 2005
Posted on Thursday, June 2, 2005.
Sources
Annual cost of all sixteen U.N. peacekeeping missions currently underway : $3,870,000,000[United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations (N.Y.C.)]
Monthly cost of the U.S. occupation of Iraq : $4,100,000,000[U.S. Department of Defense]
Revenue from Iraqi oil sales that the CPA could not account for, according to a 2005 audit : $8,800,000,000[Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (Arlington, Va.)]
Estimated number of U.S. intelligence reports on Iraq that were based on a single defector : 100[Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the U.S. Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction (Washington)]
Number of times the defector had ever been interviewed by U.S. intelligence agents : 0[Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the U.S. Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction (Washington)]
The rest are here (http://www.harpers.org/MostRecentIndex.html). Some of them are quite interesting!
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Quote[/b] ]Harper's Index for May 2005
Posted on Thursday, June 2, 2005.
Sources
Annual cost of all sixteen U.N. peacekeeping missions currently underway : $3,870,000,000[United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations (N.Y.C.)]
Monthly cost of the U.S. occupation of Iraq : $4,100,000,000[U.S. Department of Defense]
Revenue from Iraqi oil sales that the CPA could not account for, according to a 2005 audit : $8,800,000,000[Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (Arlington, Va.)]
Estimated number of U.S. intelligence reports on Iraq that were based on a single defector : 100[Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the U.S. Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction (Washington)]
Number of times the defector had ever been interviewed by U.S. intelligence agents : 0[Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the U.S. Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction (Washington)]
The rest are here (http://www.harpers.org/MostRecentIndex.html). Some of them are quite interesting!
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