The Costly Price of the Iraq War

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Saturday, June 17----As the US Congress debated this week on the future of the war in Iraq, four documentaries presented at the SILVERDOCS AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival provide a more in-depth understanding of the cost of this bloody conflict to the American economy, the American morale and America’s standing in the world.

While the Bush Administration offers platitudes of bringing Western style democracy to the Middle East, the true politics of that region are “petro politics