Operation Iraqi Freedom
icasualties.org
Iraq Coalition Military Fatalities By Year
Year US UK Other Total
2003 486 53 41 580
2004 849 22 35 906
2005 846 23 28 897
2006 823 29 21 873
2007 904 47 10 961
2008 314 4 4 322
2009 149 1 0 150
2010 60 0 0 60
2011 54 0 0 54
2012 1 0 0 1
Total 4486 179 139 4804
The count of Iraqi civilian deaths, is much harder to arrive at. This site
iraqbodycount.org, puts the "documented" number of deaths between
106,769 and 116,633.
Many say that toll is much, much higher than that.
So much chaos; So much death; So much hatred and fear ...
for What?
Commerce Dept docs: Cheney and oil execs decided to take Iraq's oil in spring 2001
by Cory Doctorow -- Feb 21, 2008
The Commerce Department has been forced by Judicial Watch to turn over records of spring, 2001 meetings held between Dick Cheney and execs from global oil giants, records that suggest that the group decided months before September 11th that the US energy policy would center on taking control of Iraq's oil:
In the late spring of 2001, Vice President Cheney held a series of top secret meetings with the representatives of Exxon-Mobil, Conoco, Shell and BP America for what was later called the Energy Task-force. Their job, ostensibly, was to map out America’s Energy future. Since late 2001 several public interest groups, including the very conservative Judicial Watch, sued to have the proceedings of those meetings opened to public scrutiny. In March 2002, the Commerce Department turned over a few documents from the Task-force meetings to Judicial Watch, among which was the map of Iraq’s Oil Fields, dated March 2001 (above) and a list of the existing “Foreign Suitors” for Iraq Oil. Since that time, Cheney’s office has fought fiercely (and so far, successfully), right up to the Supreme Court, to keep the proceeding secret and to keep any of the private industry officials from disclosing any information about the meetings. [...]
David Letterman PWNS George W Bush
link to video
Iraq Oil Deals Fulfill Cheney's Goals
Two years before the invasion of Iraq, oil executives and foreign policy advisers told the Bush administration that the United States would remain “a prisoner of its energy dilemma” as long as Saddam Hussein was in power.
by Jason Leopold, consortiumnews.com -- July 2, 2008
That April 2001 report, “Strategic Policy Challenges for the 21st Century,” was prepared by the James A. Baker Institute for Public Policy and the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations at the request of Vice President Dick Cheney.
In retrospect, it appears that the report helped focus administration thinking on why it made geopolitical sense to oust Hussein, whose country sat on the world’s second largest oil reserves.
“Iraq remains a de-stabilizing influence to the flow of oil to international markets from the Middle East,” the report said. [...]
What is their "strategic energy plan" now ... now that the 21st Century is in full swing?
How has the Cheney executive energy plan changed? ... in a nation still quite beholdened to the demands of Big Oil?
A mournful nation ought to want to know ...
A mournful nation ought to strive to take back our future from the multinational Oil Companies who continue fight, with every trick in the book, to keep tight hold of it.
Let the deaths of the brave, dutiful soldiers, and the countless, hapless victims, motivate an oil-dependent people,
... to pause and ask Why?