Iraq By The Numbers: The World’s Costliest Cakewalk

8 years, 260 days since Secretary of State Colin Powell presented evidence of Saddam Hussein’s biological weapons program

8 years, 215 days since the March 20, 2003 invasion of Iraq

8 years, 175 days since President George W. Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” speech on the USS Abraham Lincoln

4,479 U.S. military fatalities

30,182 U.S. military injuries

468 contractor fatalities

103,142 – 112,708 documented civilian deaths

2.8 million internally displaced Iraqis

$806 billion in federal funding for the Iraq War through FY2011

$3 – $5 trillion in total economic cost to the United States of the Iraq war according to economist Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. Blimes

$60 billion in U.S. expenditures lost to waste and fraud in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001

0 weapons of mass destruction found in Iraq

via Iraq By The Numbers: The World’s Costliest Cakewalk | ThinkProgress.

Semper Fi: Occupy Marines Bringing Reinforcements To Occupy The Nation

Semper Fi: Occupy Marines Bringing Reinforcements To Occupy The Nation | Addicting Info.

May god bless the Marines for doing this. This makes me happy to read. The people are starting to fight back, and they are drawn from all strata of our society. This is what has long been needed. We can only hope that this movement survives the winter, coalesces, and motivates the rest of the 99% to join them.

Eric Cantor Cancels Financial Speech at Wharton After Learning It Was Open to Public

Eric Cantor Cancels Financial Speech at Wharton After Learning It Was Open to Public.

COWARD! Face the people you’ve undermined! COWARD!

Call Eric Cantor’s Office:
Washington, DC Office
303 Cannon HOB
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: (202) 225-2815
Fax: (202) 225-0011

Website: http://cantor.house.gov/