Well, there was a report that up to 500,000 Iraqis may have died.    Yet, this is never being discussed in the so-called "main stream" media.     Also, interestingly enough, the US just dropped off 40,000 Tons of bombs on a suburb of Baghdad.  Is the surge working?   If it is, then WHY is there such firefights?   
I am also listening to Tariq Aziz's lecture titled Imperialism and Democracy Don't Mix.   It is available at (http://www.tariqali.org).    He is one of the few reasonable voices in an incresaingly unreasonable world.   May he continue his great work!!!!