PERMANENT WAR: DEALING WITH REALITIES IN IRAQ AND WASHINGTON - ROBERT DREYFUSS (TOMDISPATCH, JUNE 18): I no longer am convinced that the US adventure in Iraq is lost. ... The only certain thing is that success -- what the president calls "victory in Iraq" -- will come at the expense of thousands more American deaths, tens of thousands more Iraqi deaths and hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars.
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