Good Morning.
Today is our 2,736th day in Iraq and our 3,264th 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): 4418
Since "Mission Accomplished" (5/1/03): 4279
Since Handover (6/29/04): 3559
Since Obama Inauguration (1/20/09): 190
Since Operation New Dawn: 2
Other Coalition Troops - Iraq: 318
US Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 1,279
Other Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 792
Contractor Employee Deaths - Iraq: 1,457
Journalists - Iraq : 338
Academics Killed - Iraq: 437
We find this morning's
Cost of War passing through:
$ 1, 079, 812, 000, 000 .00
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