Well we finally wiped our hands of that little mess called Iraq.
U.S. service members dead: 4484
Allied service members dead: 318
Iraqi civilians dead: 100,000+ documented, up to 1m+ estimated
U.S. dollars spent: $800 billion so far, $4 trillion all told
Where's all that money going? To the bankers and the defense contractors, of course. War is a racket.
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War is hell. However in context of American military history, that is skirmish.
Recall that through history, 50,000 troops have been lost in a single day on many occasions. Consider the invasion of Okinawa... a single 82-day-long battle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Okinawa )
"U.S. losses were over 62,000 casualties of whom over 12,500 were killed or missing. "
"The U.S. Army figures for the campaign showed a total figure of 142,058 civilian casualties"
"...there were about 95,000 Japanese combatants killed and 7,400 captured."
Ninety percent of the buildings on the island were completely destroyed, and the lush tropical landscape was turned into "a vast field of mud, lead, decay and maggots".[46]
It's plainly inaccurate to say "50,000 troops have been lost in a single day on many occasions." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Antietam)
That's beside the point. This war was predicated on a lie, it made the liars rich, and it left the non-elite classes with tens of thousands of wounded and dead.
Whatever you think of the human toll, there's no minimizing the fiscal impact. (http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/new-economy/2011/1025/Iraq-war-will-cost-more-than-World-War-II
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