LeDuff to Uncle Sam: What About Us?
There was no parade downtown today. No ticker tape. No headlines in the newspaper boxes trumpeting: WAR OVER.
Standing here on Michigan Avenue in the mechanical heart of the American Empire, there wasn’t enough traffic to bother an alley cat.
After nine years of war in Iraq, $800 billion spent (not including the interest), nearly 5,000 Americans dead, another 32,000 wounded and another 100,000 Iraqis killed, we cut and ran Thursday following a 45-minute...
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