We start year 6 in Iraq on 3/19/08 ...... The lies & the costs

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(repost from this AM)

Facts are facts and we were lied into this war & occupation.

http://www.publicintegrity.org/WarCard /

"President George W. Bush and seven of his administration's top officials, including Vice President Dick Cheney, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, made at least 935 false statements in the two years following September 11, 2001, about the national security threat posed by Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Nearly five years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, an exhaustive examination of the record shows that the statements were part of an orchestrated campaign that effectively galvanized public opinion and, in the process, led the nation to war under decidedly false pretenses."


Americans killed and wounded in Iraq
now # about 4,000 killed and 60,000 wounded, injured, taken sick,
and mental problems of those 60,000 40,000 have been air lifted
out of Iraq and 20,000 have been treated in country.

http://icasualties.org/oif /

Over 1,100,000 Iraqis have died as a result of invasion.

http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html

We are spending $720,000,000/day in money that is loaned
to us by China, Saudi Arabia, Korea, and Japan.

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/09/23/4049 /

"The war is costing $720 million a day or $500,000 a minute, according to the group’s analysis of the work of Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz and Harvard public finance lecturer Linda J. Bilmes."