Good Morning.
Today is our 2,848th day in Iraq and our 3,364th 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): 4432
Since "Mission Accomplished" (5/1/03): 4293
Since Handover (6/29/04): 3573
Since Obama Inauguration (1/20/09): 204
Since Operation New Dawn: 14
Other Coalition Troops - Iraq: 318
US Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 1,446
Other Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 838
Contractor Employee Deaths - Iraq: 1,487
Journalists - Iraq : 348
Academics Killed - Iraq: 448
We find this morning's
cost of war passing through:
$ 1, 132, 713, 100, 000 .00
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