Iraq: 5 Years Later
Put forth on March 19, 2008 by XicanoPwr
Posted in News/Noticias, War, YouTube
Today our nation marks five years of war in Iraq. It was five years ago 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 about the national security threat posed by Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. Since then, it is now beyond dispute that Iraq did not possess any weapons of mass destruction or have meaningful ties to Al Qaeda. How many human lives is a barrel of oil worth?
The Cost to Our Forces in Iraq
Nearly 4,000 American troops who have died in Iraq since the start of the war. (as of today, according to Iraq Coalition Casualties, 3,990 are confirmed dead)
29,395: Number of U.S. service members that have been wounded in hostile action since the start of U.S. military operations in Iraq. [AP, 3/11/08]
The Cost to Iraqis
82,000-89,000: Estimate of Iraqi civilians casualties from violence since the beginning of the Iraq War. [Iraq Body Count]
4.5 Million: Number of Iraqi refugees both inside and outside the country. [Washington Post, 3/17/08]
The Cost of Funding the War
$12 Billion: Direct cost per month of the Iraq War. [Washington Post, Bilmes and Stiglitz Op-Ed, 3/9/08]
$526 Billion: Amount of money already appropriated by Congress for the War in Iraq.
$3 Trillion: Total estimated cost of the Iraq War. [Washington Post, Bilmes and Stiglitz Op-Ed, 3/9/08]
$5 Trillion - $7 Trillion: Total cost of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan accounting for continued military operations, growing debt and interest payments and continuing health care and counseling costs for veterans. [McClatchy, 2/27/08]
(source: Urban World Online)
Five videos for each year we have been in this immoral war.
System of a down - Tentative
Serj Tankian - Empty Walls Video
The Cranberries - Zombie
Rage Against The Machine - Wake Up
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This is the blog of Edmundo "XicanoPwr" Rocha, a social worker, an activist, freelance writer and founder and editor of The Sanctuary. My interests include: immigration reform, critical race theory and it's interaction with equality/inequality and freedom/oppression as they relate to the experiences of people of color in the Americas.
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