Good Morning.
Today is our 3,058th day in Iraq, and our 3, 586th 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): 4474
Since "Mission Accomplished" (5/1/03): 4335
Since Handover (6/29/04): 3615
Since Obama Inauguration (1/20/09): 246
Since Operation New Dawn: 46
Other Coalition Troops - Iraq: 318
US Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 1,680
Other Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 931
Contractor Employee Deaths - Iraq: 1,487
Journalists - Iraq : 348
Academics Killed - Iraq: 448
We find this morning's
cost of war passing through:
$ 1, 229, 368, 600, 000. 00Well, the debt package has passed the House (according to the news this morning), so it's on to the Senate. The NECN presenters were openly wondering if the Senate would be able to vote in time for the President to sign before the midnight deadline. We'll see.
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