Compare Disasters: Iraq War = TWELVE Katrina Hurricanes

[Inland]

and that's not counting the war's impact on Iraqi civilians.

Katrina damage now estimated at the high end to be 16 Billion Dollars.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/30/national/30insure.html?ei=5094&en=1f7ec94d449140d3&hp=&ex=1125374400&adxnnl=1&partner=homepage&adxnnlx=1125369092-JDM9tAQ2ei8+YQNLHTCqlQ


Cost of Iraq war to date: based on what Congress's guesses (yeah, they don't know either, somehow) is $190 Billion.

http://costofwar.com/index-kids-health.html


Divides out to 11.8. We've suffered the dollar equivlent of a dozen Katrinas in the Iraq war, but nobody announces the evacuation.

And Bush did it on purpose.

I hope they don't find out that we've lost twelve times 1872 lives in the hurricane.