Good Morning.
Today is our 3,121st day in Iraq, and our 3,649th day in Afghanistan. This Friday marks our tenth year at war. (October 7).
We'll start this morning as we always do; with the latest casualty figures from our perpetual wars, courtesy of antiwar.com:
American Deaths
Since war began (3/19/03): 4477
Since "Mission Accomplished" (5/1/03): 4338
Since Handover (6/29/04): 3618
Since Obama Inauguration (1/20/09): 249
Since Operation New Dawn: 49
Other Coalition Troops - Iraq: 318
US Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 1,791
Other Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 954
Contractor Employee Deaths - Iraq: 1,487
Journalists - Iraq : 348
Academics Killed - Iraq: 448
We find this morning's
cost of war passing through:
$ 1, 258, 605, 800, 000 .00 And just looking at that snapshot, we've spent $344, 918, 004 every day since 2001 on this escapade.
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