Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Mission Accomplished??

Just a quick one today.

It's 5 years almost to the day when US forces and thier allies invaded Iraq. We now have more than 4000 dead American soldiers as a result of the conflict.

But what percentage of them died after George W. declared "Major combat operations" to have ended on the 1st of May 2003 under the now infamous "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED" banner?
97 percent...

Go figure.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Crazy statistic... thank God Bush is leaving soon... I think McCain will be worse though... he doesn't even pretend...

Meanwhile, don't know if I told you but the USS Abraham Lincoln, the carrier that had the infamous "Mission Accomplished" banner, is stationed a few miles north of me in the Port of Everett.