Good Morning.
Today is our 2,995th day in Iraq, and our 3,511th day in Afghanistan.
We'll start this morning as we always do; with the latest casualty figures from our ongoing wars, courtesy of Antiwar.com:
American Deaths
Since war began (3/19/03): 4454 3511
Since "Mission Accomplished" (5/1/03): 4313
Since Handover (6/29/04): 3595
Since Obama Inauguration (1/20/09): 226
Since Operation New Dawn: 36
Other Coalition Troops - Iraq: 318
US Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 1,598
Other Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 891
Contractor Employee Deaths - Iraq: 1,487
Journalists - Iraq: 348
Academics Killed - Iraq: 448
We find this morning's
cost of war passing through:
$ 1, 202, 126, 250, 000. 00Well, it was all over the news yesterday. Perhaps that preacher in California just missed the date, because if the
KKK counter-protesting Westboro Baptist isn't one of the signs of the Apocalypse....I don't know what is.
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