Saturday, October 22, 2011


According to www.thinkprogress.org  here are a few relevant numbers from the invasion of Iraq:

1.  8 years 215 days since the March 20, 2003 invasion.

2.  8 years 175 days since President Bush's "Mission Accomplished" speech on the carrier USS Abraham Lincoln.

3.  4,479 U.S. military fatalities

4.  30,182 U.S. military injuries

5.  468 contractor fatalities

6.  103,142 - 112-708 civilian deaths

7.  2.8 million internally displaced Iraqis

8.  $806 billion in federal funding for the war thru FY2011

9.  $3 - $5 trillion in total economic cost to the U.S.

10.  $60 billion in U.S. expenditures lost to fraud and waste

11.  0 weapons of mass distruction found in Iraq


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