Friday, April 22, 2005

a sub-total of costs

American Progress

IRAQ $300,000,000,000.00

We'd call it buyer's remorse, but "remorse" doesn't quite capture the stunning tragedy of the moment. Following yesterday's
Senate approval of the latest war supplemental, American taxpayers will soon have paid three hundred billion dollars – that's $300,000,000,000.00 – to help finance the most disastrous foreign policy decision of our generation. You paid. Your co-workers paid. Elderly couples, struggling single parents, college kids, middle-class families – we all paid....

1744 Coalition deaths, 1567 of them American
11888 US wounded in action

and over 100,000 Iraqi's killed

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