Good Morning.
Today is our 2,757th day in Iraq and our 3,285th 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): 4424
Since "Mission Accomplished" (5/1/03): 4285
Since Handover (6/29/04): 3565
Since Obama Inauguration (1/20/09): 196
Since Operation New Dawn: 7
Other Coalition Troops - Iraq: 318
US Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 1,311
Other Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 816
Contractor Employee Deaths - Iraq: 1,487
Journalists - Iraq : 348
Academics Killed - Iraq: 448
We find this morning's
cost of war passing through:
$ 1, 089, 687, 875, 000 .00
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