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You didn't know ... here goes:

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - There was a bit of unfinished business left over in Baghdad from the 1991 Gulf War. The U.S. Army has taken care of it.

At the Al-Rashid Hotel, President Bush the elder - father of the current American chief executive who ordered this year's invasion of Iraq - is a doormat no more.

U.S. soldiers visited the battered Al-Rashid on Thursday night wielding hammers and chisels, and dug out the intricate tile mosaic of the former president that was used for years as a state-sponsored insult.

In its place, they laid a portrait of Saddam Hussein.

That cost 3000 + dead american soldiers, 20 000 + mutilated one and 500 000 + iraqi deaths....

http://www.sptimes.com/2003/04/12/photos/wor-hotel.jpg

If you mean this thread then I agree! :thumbsup

I would have thought it would cost more. Sounds like a bargain!

why wont you fuck off already ?
i knew this thread would be filled with your pointless replies all over before i even clicked in .

im impressed :thumbsup

Of course - I knew there was some good reason :1orglaugh

So US forces have an interest in rearranging crafts and showing an interest in fine art? That's nice. As long as they have something to do - it keeps them off the streets and helps reduce the violence :winkwink:

:2 cents: [read more sources on the same topic/story and you will better judge information] :2 cents:

A controversial new study contends nearly 655,000 Iraqis have died because of the war, suggesting a far higher death toll than other estimates.
The timing of the survey's release, just a few weeks before the U.S. congressional elections, led one expert to call it "politics."

In the new study, researchers attempt to calculate how many more Iraqis have died since March 2003 than one would expect without the war. Their conclusion, based on interviews of households and not a body count, is that about 600,000 died from violence, mostly gunfire. They also found a small increase in deaths from other causes like heart disease and cancer.

"Deaths are occurring in Iraq now at a rate more than three times that from before the invasion of March 2003," Dr. Gilbert Burnham, lead author of the study, said in a statement......

An accurate count of Iraqi deaths has been difficult to obtain, but one respected group puts its rough estimate at closer to 50,000. And at least one expert was skeptical of the new findings.

breitbart.com/news/2006/10/10/D8KM6GL80.html

TT

it is difficult to come to a figure ... This is like a poll ... same as claiming the number of deads under Sadaam ... estimates.

wrong!

VIENNA, Austria - About 150,000 Iraqis have been killed by insurgents since the U.S.-led invasion more than three years ago, a senior Iraqi official said Thursday.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15642324/


.. and this is a low figure ...

:thumbsup

really horrible..