’Mission Accomplished’ Was 12 Years Ago Today. What’s Been The Cost Since Then?
▻http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/01/iraq-war-mission-accomplished_n_7191382.html
In the years since “Mission Accomplished,” some 149,053 civilians have been killed, compared to about 7,412 prior to the speech, according to the website Iraq Body Count. Since the speech, 4,637 military members in the Iraq War coalition led by the U.S. have lost their lives, versus 172 prior, according to the Iraq Coalition Casualty Count. As of September 2014, total U.S. expenditures on the war in Iraq totaled $815.8 billion, about 93 percent of which was spent after 2003. That cost is more than 16 times the Bush administration’s original projection.
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But civilian deaths in Iraq are a different story. Last year they reached the third-highest total of any year since 2003, and the rate has steadily increased every year since 2010.