Never Forget
Things you should never forget about our last military adventure in Iraq:
Never Forget the 189,000 people who died in the war. It was probably a whole lot more, but you have to start someplace.
Never Forget the 4,488 U.S. service personnel killed directly in Iraq.
Never Forget the 32,223 troops injured (not including PTSD).
Never Forget the 134,000 Iraqi civilians killed directly.
Never Forget the 150 journalists killed. Especially if your excuse for undertaking a new war in Iraq is 2 beheaded journalists.
Never Forget the 2.8 million Iraqis who remain either internally displaced or have fled the country.
Never Forget the $1.7 trillion our Federal Government spent on the Iraq War through Fiscal Year 2013.
Never Forget the $5,000 spent per second.
Never Forget the $350,000 we spent to deploy each American military member.
Never Forget the $490 billion in war benefits owed to war veterans.
Never Forget the $7 trillion in projected interest payments due by 2053 (because the war was paid for with borrowed money).
Never Forget the $20 billion paid to KBR, contractor responsible for equipment and services.
Never Forget the $3 billion in KBR payments that Pentagon auditors considered "questionable."
Never Forget the $60 billion paid for reconstruction, (which was ruled largely a waste due to corruption and shoddy work).
Never Forget the 1.6 million gallons of oil used by U.S. forces each day in Iraq (at an average of $127.68 a barrel).
Never Forget the $20 billion spent each year to air condition our outposts.
Never Forget the missing $546 million in spare parts, or the 190,000 guns, including 110,000 AK-47s.
Most of all, Never Forget that all of this squandered blood and treasure was the result of fabricated stories designed to convince us that Saddam Hussein had the intent and capability to attack us at home.