109^th in continuing blog series on the administration push to war. Destruction continues to rise in Iraq, along with casualties. Unaccountable financial losses in Iraq also rise, and U.S. officials plead, at an international conference in Madrid, for international assistance for Iraq. Iraqi oil production, however, and exports of crude, somewhat rebound. The first casualties arguably connected to the CIA leak occur in Afghanistan.
October 23-31, 2003:

Oct. 23, 2003 – Christian Aid, a charitable organization in Britain, reports that the Coalition Provisional Authority has apparently lost billions of dollars intended for ...   more »