Good Morning.
Today is our 3,023rd day in Iraq, and our 3,551st 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): 4466
Since "Mission Accomplished" (5/1/03): 4327
Since Handover (6/29/04): 3607
Since Obama Inauguration (1/20/09): 238
Since Operation New Dawn: 48
Other Coalition Troops - Iraq: 318
US Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 1,638
Other Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 916
Contractor Employee Deaths - Iraq: 1,487
Journalists - Iraq : 348
Academics Killed - Iraq: 448
We find this morning's
cost of war passing through:
$ 1, 213, 127, 150, 000 .00
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