Think Progress offers these numbers from the Iraq war:
8 years, 260 days since Secretary of State Colin Powell presented evidence of Saddam Hussein’s biological weapons program
8 years, 215 days since the March 20, 2003 invasion of Iraq
8 years, 175 days since President George W. Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” speech on the USS Abraham Lincoln
4,479 U.S. military fatalities
30,182 U.S. military injuries
468 contractor fatalities
103,142 – 112,708 documented civilian deaths
2.8 million internally displaced Iraqis
$806 billion in federal funding for the Iraq War through FY2011
$3 – $5 trillion in total economic cost to the United States of the Iraq war according to economist Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. Blimes
$60 billion in U.S. expenditures lost to waste and fraud in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001
0 weapons of mass destruction found in Iraq
Zakaria: Iraq withdrawal a disappointment for the U.S. Administration
By Fareed Zakaria, CNN
Ahmadinejad on Gadhafi, Syria, alleged plot, nuclear weapons and America’s role
Fareed Zakaria just interviewed Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. They talked about Moammar Gadhafi’s death, policy toward Syria, the alleged Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi Ambassador to the U.S., Iran’s nuclear ambitions and America’s global role. A video of Ahmadinejad responding to Obama’s Iraq troop withdrawal is above. You can catch the full interview this Sunday at 10a.m. and 1p.m. EST on Fareed Zakaria GPS along with more from Fareed’s trip to Tehran.
Kind of an expensive lie, wasn’t it?
I’ll bet the number of Iraqi deaths are at least double the “documented” figure
“Sixty billion lost to waste and fraud…” And the Republicans don’t want to allocate $1 for any program that might make America a better place to live. Can you imagine what 60 billion would have bought?
The $60 billion would give every man, woman, and child in the U.S. just shy of $200.
While not a large amount, i most certainly turn it down.
^^^meant to say “wouldn’t turn it down”^^^