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 A Palestinian youth uses a slingshot to fire stones at Israeli soldiers from behind a barricade of burning tires 23 May 3.  Christmas in the Trenches.The 1914 battlefield truce and more.  U.S. soldiers instruct an Iraqi to tell Santa what he wants for Christmas. BAGHDAD, IRAQ—On almost every corner in Iraq's capital city, carolers are singing, trees are being trimmed, and shoppers are rushing home with their packages—all under the watchful eye of U.S. troops dedicated to bringing the magic of Christmas to Iraq by force. "It's important that life in liberated Iraq get back to normal as soon as possible," said Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz at a press conference Monday. "That's why we're making sure that Iraqis have the best Christmas ever—something they certainly wouldn't have had under Saddam Hussein's regime." To that end, 25,000 troops from the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment and 82nd Airborne Division have been deployed. Their missions include the distribution of cookies and eggnog at major Iraqi city centers, the conscription of bell-ringers from among the Iraqi citizenry, and the enforcement of a new policy in which every man, woman, and child in Baghdad pays at least one visit to 'Twas The Night... On Ice. More satire at The Onion. We are dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon. -Paul Wolfowitz, to a House defense subcommittee, 27 Mar 3. I don't believe that the United States has the responsibility for reconstruction, in a sense... funds can come from those various sources I mentioned -- frozen assets, oil revenues and a variety of other things, including the Oil for Food, which has a very substantial number of billions of dollars in it. -Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Senate Appropriations Hearing, 27 Mar 3. Iraq could generate $50 billion to $100 billion of oil revenue over the next 2-3 years. -Paul Wolfowitz, House defense subcommittee, 3 Mar 3. [once Hussein is ousted] a good part of the world, especially our allies, will come around to our way of thinking. -Dick Cheney, Face the Nation, 16 Mar 3. First-and this is really the overarching principle-the United States seeks to liberate Iraq, not occupy Iraq. If the President should decide to use force, let me assure you again that the United States would be committed to liberating the people of Iraq, not becoming an occupation force. -Paul Wolfowitz, speech to the Iraqi community, 23 Feb 3. I would expect that even countries like France will have a strong interest in assisting Iraq in reconstruction. -Paul Wolfowitz, testimony to the House Budget Committee, 28 Feb 3. [the world can't expect nations that] felt particularly hostile to military intervention to feel hugely enthusiastic about spending a large amount of money in Iraq. -Chris Patten, the European Union external affairs commissioner, 23 Oct 3. France and Germany, leading opponents of the U.S.-led war, have both cited concerns about the slow pace of restoring Iraq's sovereignty for their refusal to pledge any new money now. -Paul Geitner, Associated Press, 23 Oct 3. It may take time to meet the goal. [of more than $55 billion set by the World Bank, which includes the Bush administration's nearly $20 billion pledge]. -Colin Powell, U.S. Secretary of State, 23 Oct 3. After (Gen. Jay Garner) finishes his job of restoring basic services, the interim Iraqi authority will be established. And that interim authority will be an authority of Iraqis, chosen by Iraqis. And it will be able to function as an authority in the country immediately after Gen. Garner's job is finished, which should be only a few weeks. -Ahmed Chalabi, Meet the Press, 13 Apr 3. We're seeing today how much the people of Poland and Central and Eastern Europe appreciate what the United States did to help liberate them from the tyranny of the Soviet Union. I think you're going to see even more of that sentiment in Iraq. There's not going to be the hostility that you described Saturday. There simply won't be. -Paul Wolfowitz, 19 Feb 3. These terrorist attacks will not deter us from completing our mission, which is to help the Iraqi people free themselves from the types of criminals who did this and protect the American people from this kind of terrorism. -Paul Wolfowitz, referring to the anti-American guerrillas who blasted the Baghdad hotel where he was staying, 26 Feb 3. ...Funds will not be redirected from other emergencies ... nor from programmes supporting poor people elsewhere. -Tony Blair in a handwritten note two weeks after Saddam Hussein's statue was toppled in central Baghdad, giving an assurance to British charities, 25 Apr 3. ...The Department for International Development (DFID)... has been told to find up to £100m by reducing programmes in countries such as Peru, the Philippines, Bolivia and South Africa. -Leonard Doyle, The Independent, 23 Oct 3 We have absolutely no idea how the money (from Iraqi oil revenues) has been spent. I wish I knew, but we just don't know. We have absolutely no idea. - "Senior European diplomat" at the UN, on the $4 billion of Iraq oil revenue missing under the hands of the US/CPA, quoted in the report "Iraq: the missing Billions," Christian Aid (Britain), 23 Oct 3. ...The Bush overall budget of $87 billion, which now horrifies Congress, is likely to rise towards a figure of $200 billion. -Robert Fisk, The Independent, 2 Oct 3. The situation is little short of scandalous," said Roger Riddell, Christian Aid's international director, who is attending the Madrid conference. "The British government must use its position of second-in-command of the CPA to demand full disclosure of this money and its proper allocation in the future. The domination of two giant U.S. construction companies--Halliburton and Bechtel, both with close ties to key figures in the administration--of major contracts handed out by the CPA has drawn heavy fire not just in Iraq, but in the U.S. Congress as well. "This is Iraqi money," said Riddell. "The people of Iraq must know where it is going and it should be used for the benefit of all the country's people, particularly the poorest." - Billions Unaccounted for from Iraq Accounts, Charge NGOs, Jim Lobe, OneWorld, 24 Oct 3 I firmly believed we should not march into Baghdad ...To occupy Iraq would instantly shatter our coalition, turning the whole Arab world against us and make a broken tyrant, into a latter-day Arab hero assigning young soldiers to a fruitless hunt for a securely entrenched dictator and condemning them to fight in what would be an unwinnable urban guerrilla war. - George Bush I, A World Transformed, 1998. Around the world, Autumn and the Fall (Humpty Dumpty's that is), 2003 Image Directory Our pages are black in honor of Rachel Corrie | Previous home page collage | Original homepage LONDON: 18-22 3 [The bombings in Turkey] wouldn't have happened without Iraq... America is creating their own terrorists. Ziggy Dlabal, a German sociologist who lives in London.  London, 20 Nov 3
A demonstrator wears face paint during a protest in central London, Thursday Nov. 20, 2003, against the visit of President Bush.(AP Photo/ Mark Lees-PA)  London, 18 Nov 3
George W. Bush and Tony Blair will mount a defiant show of solidarity after the U.S. president flies to London on November 18, 2003 for his first visit to a major European capital since war in Iraq polarized the world. Tens of thousands of protesters have vowed to give the president his first taste of European anger at the war. (Reuters Graphic)  London, 20 Nov 3
A statue of US President George Bush is toppled in London's Trafalgar Square, Thursday Nov. 20, 2003, in a renactment of the destruction of Saddam Hussein 's statue in Baghdad, as part of a demonstration against President Bush 's state visit to Britain. (AP Photo/ John D. McHugh) APÂ -Â Nov 20 1:46 PM  London, 20 Nov 3
A large crowd of anti-war and anti- President Bush protesters are gathered in Trafalgar Square in London Thursday Nov. 20, 2003, during a demonstration against U.S. President George W. Bush's State visit to Britain. (AP Photo/Laurent Rebours)  London, 20 Nov 3
Protesters gather in London's Trafalgar Square, Thursday Nov. 20, 2003, for a demonstration against the state visit to Britain by US President George W. Bush . The national gallery is at left, and the spire of St. Martin's in the Fields at center. (AP Photo/PA,Sean Dempsey) APÂ -Â Nov 20 1:19 PM  London, 20 Nov 3
Protesters gather to march along Whitehall enroute to London's Trafalgar Square, Thursday Nov. 20, 2003, during a demonstration against the state visit to Britain by US President George W.Bush. (AP Photo/Ian Nicholson-pa) APÂ -Â Nov 20 1:20 PM  London, 20 Nov 3
Protesters gather for the start of an anti-Bush rally in central London, Thursday Nov. 20, 2003. US President George W Bush is on a 4 day State Visit to the UK. (AP Photo / PA, Edmund Terakopian) APÂ -Â Nov 20 11:57 AM  London, 20 Nov 3
Part of an estimated 100,000 demonstrators march through the streets of central London to protest the state visit of US President George W. Bush to Britain.(AFP/Eric Feferberg) AFPÂ -Â Nov 20 11:41 AM  London, 20 Nov 3
Protesters march through central London, November 20, 2003. Tens of thousands of protesters marched in anger at President Bush 's visit. Photo by Matt Dunham/Reuters Reuters - Nov 20 11:50 AM  London, 19 Nov 3
Red dye thrown in by demonstrators colors the water of a fountain in London's Trafalgar Square Wednesday Nov. 19, 2003, during a protest over the State Visit by President Bush . The President arrived in Britain Tuesday evening and was formally welcomed to the country Wednesday morning by The Queen. (AP Photo/PA, Ian Nicholson) APÂ -Â Nov 19 10:03 AM  London, 19 Nov 3
Two policemen grapple with a anti-Bush protestor who tried to jump into the road ahead of U.S. President George W. Bush's motorcade as it headed down The Mall in London en-route to the American Embassy during his 4 day State Visit to Britain, Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2003. (AP Photo/Richard Lewis)  London, 18 Nov 3
Lindis Percy, an anti-war protestor, stands on top of the gates of Buckingham Palace with an upside-down U.S. flag with the inscription 'Elizabeth Windsor and Co we don't want him here,' November 17, 2003. The woman, wearing a fluorescent waistcoat, dodged tight security to scale the six-meter high wrought iron gates on the eve of U.S. President's George W. Bush's state visit to Britain. REUTERS/David Bebber 
Let the deceptions END! The man who took the Presidency has done this to our soldiers. George Bush—the WORST man in the position of the Presidency this country has ever seen—has taken the lives of the soldiers who swore to protect: not occupy, not police, not invade a country unprovoked. The teenagers spoken of below are not Hussein's "henchmen."  Mosul, Iraq
In this image taken from video, US soldiers, center background, inspect the body of a fellow soldier in Mosul, Iraq Sunday, Nov. 23, 2003 after gunmen shot two American soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division as they drove through the city center to another U.S. garrison, sending their vehicle crashing into a wall according to witnesses. Then, teenagers dragged their bodies from the vehicle and pummeled them with concrete blocks. (AP Photo/APTN)  Seoul, South Korea
A picture of U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is burned by South Korean civic group members during a rally opposing the planned dispatch of South Korean troops to Iraq, near the U.S. Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2003. Rumsfeld plans to visit Seoul for a security meeting from Nov. 16 to Nov. 18, 2003. (AP Photo/ Lee Jin-man)  Miami, 20 Nov 3
Riot police briefly detain a group of protestors gathered against the Free Trade Area of the Americas conference Thursday, Nov. 20, 2003 in Miami. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez)  Seoul, South Korea
A South Korean protester is blocked by police as she tries to head toward the presidential palace during an anti-U.S. rally against the visiting of U.S. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, near the presidential palace in Seoul, Monday, Nov. 17, 2003. Rumsfeld and South Korean Defense Minister Cho Young-Kil held an annual meeting on the two countries' military alliance and South Korea's planned dispatch of troops to help U.S. forces rebuild and stabilize the war-torn Iraq. The Korean letters on theplacard say ' Don't send our military soldiers to Iraq.' (AP Photo/ Lee Jin-man)  Bolivia
A Bolivian Indian woman cries during a protest rally for the victims of the October, 2003 'Gas War' in La Paz, November 18, 2003. One hundred relatives of the victims of the gas war demanded economic compensation for their dead relatives. REUTERS/Jose Luis Quintana |
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