MILITARY INTELLIGENCE

Occupation bill could pay for total health cover ... twice over

Billions spent on US military occupation operations could pay for every man, woman and child to have free health care twice over, according to a 2004 Democratic presidential candidate.
Howard Dean said the spending of dollars earmarked for Iraq and Afghanistan - most of it for military operations rather than reconstruction - could accomplish much more beneficial projects in the United States.
"So far, 80 billion has already been spent on the war and its aftermath. The president is now asking for 87 billion more," Dean said in a statement.

[Ramsey Clark, former US Attorney General, responds to Bush's television address:
President Bush told the American public and the world to expect more of the same from his administration. More crimes against peace and humanity, more deaths and destruction, more debts and poverty. He wants everyone to help...
That means more wars of aggression. More summary execution and assassinations. More arbitrary arrests, more illegal detentions and disappearances. Guantanamo is a symbol to the world of President Bush's contempt for human rights: torture, suicides, secret detention, military trials, an execution chamber waiting. ]