'Of the 39,000 troops in Iraq, about 150, a negligible force, will remain to assist in arms sales, a U.S. official told CNN. The rest will be out of Iraq by December 31'.
'Beyond the human cost, the price tag for U.S. military activity in Iraq has been steep as well. The Defense Department estimated that its operations there over the past decade have cost more than $700 billion'.
From : http://zandarvts.blogspot.com/2011/10/last-call_21.html
And the 'human' cost?
http://icasualties.org/
http://www.antiwar.com/casualties/
It’s only been 3,095 days since this happened…
'Here are some relevant numbers':
'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'
From : http://thinkprogress.org/security/2011/10/21/350368/iraq-by-the-numbers-the-worlds-costliest-cakewalk/
'"You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will'.
General William Tecumseh Sherman
to the Mayor and Councilmen of Atlanta
From : http://www.rjgeib.com/thoughts/sherman/sherman-to-burn-atlanta.html
'Mission Accomplished'
President George 'Dildo' Bush
To the American People
on the USS Abraham Lincoln 8 years ago.
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