Unhappy Anniversary


And so, we enter the fourth year of the second war in Iraq.

(Just in case, feel free to review the story so far...)

Coalition fatalities: 2,525*

US armed forces fatalities: 2,318*

Total US armed forces casualties: 19,442*

Average number of Coalition deaths per day: 2.3 (roughly equal to last year)*

Cost of Iraq war so far: $ 248 billion and counting**

Estimated total cost of war including all long-term commitments: over $1 trillion***

Barrels of oil the US could purchase with $1 trillion: 14 billion

Number of years that amount of oil would last: 2

Number of days since George W. Bush promised to catch Osama bin Laden, "dead or alive": 1,435

Predicted length of time the war would last, according to Donald Rumsfeld: "Five days or five weeks or five months, but it certainly isn't going to last any longer than that."****

Actual length of the war so far: 1096 days / 157 weeks / 36 months

Weapons of Mass Destruction found: 0

Are we getting tired of this yet?




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