Good Morning.
Today is our 2,904th day in Iraq, and our 3,432nd 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): 4439
Since "Mission Accomplished" (5/1/03): 4300
Since Handover (6/29/04): 350
Since Obama Inauguration (1/20/09): 211
Since Operation New Dawn: 21
Other Coalition Troops - Iraq: 318
US Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 1,483
Other Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 858
Contractor Employee Deaths - Iraq: 1,487
Journalists - Iraq : 348
Academics Killed - Iraq: 448
We find this morning's
Cost of War passing through:
$1, 159, 162, 750, 000 .00After years of uselessly butting our heads against the brick wall that is Afghanistan, it seems that some among us have finally learned the lesson. Never mind the historical sense; it's easy for you to look up what happened to Britain or Russia when they went there....so at least you can add the United States to that inglorious list. Nevertheless, in case you missed it on last Friday's TRMS
here's the story.
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