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Papers How Much Is $87 Billion for Iraq? (NationalPriorities.org) Enter the amount of income tax your family paid this past year and find out how it was spent. You will find that 22.6 percent was spent on interest on the national debt and 26.2 percent was spent on the military. 9-03 Partnership of Bush and Cheney (Time.com) "This war has two faces, one a promise, one a growl. One says we will defend liberty wherever it lives, plant our values where they have never grown. The other says if you challenge us or threaten us or even just invade our sense of security, you will have started a fight that you will certainly lose." 1-03 Persons of the Year (Time.com - Lacayo and Ripley) Describes the heroism of Cynthia Cooper, Coleen Rowley, and Sherron Watkins. They are sometimes called "whistleblowers" because they tried to help correct something very wrong within their own organizations by reporting the problems to their top authorities. "They took huge professional and personal risks to blow the whistle on what went wrong at WorldCom, Enron and the FBI—and in so doing helped remind us what American courage and American values are all about." "Very quickly it became clear that none of them are rebels in the usual sense. The truest of true believers is more like it, ever faithful to the idea that where they worked was a place that served the wider world in some important way. But sometimes it's the keepers of the flame who feel most compelled to set their imperfect temple to the torch. When headquarters didn't live up to its mission, they took it to heart." Visitors sometimes call it whistle blowers1-03