{"id":8860,"date":"2011-10-21T15:17:53","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T22:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=8860"},"modified":"2011-10-22T05:34:50","modified_gmt":"2011-10-22T12:34:50","slug":"cakewalk-bushs-iraq-war-by-the-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=8860","title":{"rendered":"‘Cakewalk’: Bush’s Iraq War by the Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"

George W. Bush adviser Kenneth Adelman predicted the War in Iraq would be a “cakewalk.”<\/a> As President Barack Obama announced today that all U.S. military troops would finally be leaving the “cakewalk” by year’s end after 9 deadly years (and as Fox “News” was busy ignoring the historic announcement<\/a>), ThinkProgress put together a few numbers<\/a> from what they describe as “The World’s Costliest Cakewalk”…<\/p>\n

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8 years, 260 days<\/strong> since Secretary of State Colin Powell presented evidence of Saddam Hussein’s biological weapons program<\/p>\n

8 years, 215 days<\/strong> since the March 20, 2003 invasion of Iraq<\/p>\n

8 years, 175 days<\/strong> since President George W. Bush’s “Mission Accomplished”\u009d speech on the USS Abraham Lincoln<\/p>\n

4,479 <\/strong>U.S. military fatalities<\/a><\/p>\n

30,182<\/strong> U.S. military injuries<\/a><\/p>\n

468<\/strong> contractor fatalities<\/a><\/p>\n

103,142 “\u201c 112,708<\/strong> documented civilian deaths<\/a><\/p>\n

2.8 million<\/strong> internally displaced Iraqis<\/a><\/p>\n

$806 billion<\/strong> in federal funding for the Iraq War<\/a> through FY2011<\/p>\n

$3 “\u201c $5 trillion<\/strong> in total economic cost to the United States<\/a> of the Iraq war according to economist Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. Blimes<\/p>\n

$60 billion<\/strong> in U.S. expenditures lost to waste and fraud<\/a> in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001<\/p>\n

0<\/strong> weapons of mass destruction found in Iraq<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

George W. Bush adviser Kenneth Adelman predicted the War in Iraq would be a “cakewalk.” As President Barack Obama announced today that all U.S. military troops would finally be leaving the “cakewalk” by year’s end after 9 deadly years (and as Fox “News” was busy ignoring the historic announcement), ThinkProgress put together a few numbers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,239,405,24,100],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-8860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-barack-obama","category-bush-legacy","category-iraq-war","category-war-on-terror"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8860"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=8860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}