Good Morning. Did you vote yet?
Today is our 2,785th day in Iraq, and our 3,313th 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): 4427
Since "Mission Accomplished" (5/1/03): 4288
Since Handover (6/29/04): 3568
Since Obama Inauguration (1/20/09): 199
Since Operation New Dawn: 9
Other Coalition Troops - Iraq: 318
US Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 1,353
Other Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 821
Contractor Employee Deaths - Iraq: 1,487
Journalists - Iraq : 348
Academics Killed - Iraq: 448
"Cost of War" seems to be down at this hour. Suffice to say that it's still climbing at $10,000 every 3 seconds.
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