Iraq By The Numbers: The World’s Costliest Cakewalk

[kpete]

'Cakewalk': Bush's Iraq War by the Numbers

8 years, 260 days since Secretary of State Colin Powell presented evidence of Saddam Hussein’s biological weapons program

8 years, 215 days since the March 20, 2003 invasion of Iraq

8 years, 175 days since President George W. Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” speech on the USS Abraham Lincoln

4,479 U.S. military fatalities

30,182 U.S. military injuries

468 contractor fatalities

103,142 – 112,708 documented civilian deaths

2.8 million internally displaced Iraqis

$806 billion in federal funding for the Iraq War through FY2011

$3 – $5 trillion in total economic cost to the United States of the Iraq war according to economist Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. Blimes

$60 billion in U.S. expenditures lost to waste and fraud in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001

0 weapons of mass destruction found in Iraq

COUNTLESS LIES

http://thinkprogress.org/security/2011/10/21/350368/iraq-by-the-numbers-the-worlds-costliest-cakewalk/
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8860

[gratuitous]

1. Has it been six months already?

My goodness!

[Jim Lane]

dupe

[Jim Lane]

A good number to add would be the number of lies told to help sell the invasion.

I'm partway through Hubris, by Michael Isikoff and Davoid Corn, which addresses the whole run-up to the war. I thought I knew a lot about the BS that went down. The reality was an order of magnitude worse than I realized.

[Jim Lane]

dupe

[Jim Lane]

2. dupe

[indepat]

3. History will dispassionately record the Iraqi experience as one of the worst

blunders modern man has blundered into imo: the cost-benefit ratio enormous, the carnage and destruction inflicted incalculable, the enormity of the crime also imo incalculable. Supposedly civilized man's inhumanity to man: off the incivility chart imo. :patriot: