Good Morning.
Today is our 2,876th day in Iraq and our 3,404th day in Afghanistan.
We'll start this morning as we always do; with the latest casualties from our ongoing wars, courtesy of Antiwar.com:
American Deaths
Since war began (3/19/03): 4436
Since "Mission Accomplished" (5/1/03): 4297
Since Handover (6/29/04): 3577
Since Obama Inauguration (1/20/09): 208
Since Operation New Dawn: 18
Other Coalition Troops - Iraq
318
US Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 1,466
Other Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 842
Contractor Employee Deaths - Iraq: 1,487
Journalists - Iraq : 348
Academics Killed - Iraq: 448
We find this morning's
cost of war passing through:
$ 1, 145, 935, 750, 000 .00
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