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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31 comments (Latest Comment: 09/15/2010 02:43:23 by Will in Chicago)

Good morning and/or afternoon.

Fellow bloggers, Velveeta has learned some sad news. It seems that gangrene has infected our government, no doubt due to the Muslim-loving, terrorist-supporting, socialist, commie, hippies that have a 'D' and a 'Rat' following their names. (Some exceptions may apply).

The thing that I learned about gangrene is that if you get the infection, from say, a chainsaw accident, then what you must do is cut off the infection even if it means losing your appendage. Otherwise the gangrene WILL KILL YOU!

Gangrene is caused by the loss of blood flow to the body part. If we use our chainsaw example, we could see how blood flow might be reduced if you severely cut your hand. Cut = blood flowing out and not getting to the fingers. Now, what you need to do in this case is immediately cut off your arm just above the original slice to prevent this infection.
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2 comments (Latest Comment: 09/12/2010 21:22:40 by AuntAzalea)

Good Morning.

So, it's burn a Quran day. Given the confusion over the past 48 hours, it's unclear if the event is going to happen or not today. I started writing a blog about this on Tuesday night, but seeing that we've talked about this every day this week, I'll move on to something else. Nevertheless, if you want to see my original idea, it's posted here.

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6 comments (Latest Comment: 09/14/2010 01:47:45 by AuntAzalea)

When our country was founded, the memories of a tyrannical king were still fresh. The Constitution was written to prevent that from happening again. As such, important provisions were put in place to ensure that The People would have certain freedoms, the most important of which is freedom of speech. Without such a freedom, a person could be jailed for speaking out against the government. A side effect of this is that vile and disgusting speech is protected. It is up to us to consider the ramifications of what might occur exercising that freedom.
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17 comments (Latest Comment: 09/10/2010 00:40:44 by TriSec)

Good Morning.

Today is our 2,729th day in Iraq and our 3,245th 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): 4417
Since "Mission Accomplished" (5/1/03): 4278
Since Capture of Saddam (12/13/03): 3956
Since Handover (6/29/04): 3558
Since Obama Inauguration (1/20/09): 189

Other Coalition Troops - Iraq: 318
US Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 1,275
Other Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 791
Contractor Employee Deaths - Iraq: 1,457
Journalists - Iraq : 338
Academics Killed - Iraq: 437


We find this morning's cost of war passing through:

$ 1, 076, 519, 600, 000 .00


Well, troops have pulled back to Kuwait; speeches have been made, flags have been waved, and still more soldiers and contractors are heading to Iraq in a "non-combat" role. The question remains...was it worth it?

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26 comments (Latest Comment: 09/08/2010 02:04:54 by livingonli)