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The Iraq Invasion: Day 1,000
One thousand days ago today, the U.S. invasion of Iraq officially began. Reports show the death toll continues to mount to staggering numbers as support for the occupation drops. To talk about these first 1,000 days of the Iraq war, we are joined by Sami Rousuli in Iraq and Robert Fisk in Beirut. President Bush took to the nation’s airwaves on March 19, 2003 to declare that the war to “disarm Iraq” had begun. Bush claimed the United States was entering the conflict reluctantly but that the war was needed to prevent Iraq from having what he called weapons of mass murder.
The Independent newspaper of London has published a series of statistics to mark what has happened in the 1,000 days since then:
# Zero weapons of mass destruction have been found.
# At least 30,000 Iraqi civilians have died so far though some studies put the toll over 100,000.
# 66 journalists have been killed.
# 183,000 British and American troops remain in Iraq.
# Over 2,300 U.S. and coalition troops have been killed.
# At least 16,000 U.S. troops have been wounded in action.
# $200 billion has already been spent by the U.S. And news reports today indicate the total cost of the Iraq and Afghan wars could top half a trillion dollars.
# Between 60% and 80% of Iraqis still strongly oppose the presence of U.S. troops in their country.
# 67% of Iraqis feel less secure because of the occupation.
# There are currently an average of 90 attacks staged each day by the Iraqi resistance.
# 8% of Iraq’s children are suffering acute malnutrition.
Sami Rousuli, He was living in Minnesota at the time of the invasion but has since returned to Iraq to live. He now heads up the Muslim Peacemaker Team. He joins us from Karbala.
Robert Fisk, Middle East correspondent for the London’s Independent who has reported extensively from Iraq during the war.
LISTEN ONLINE:
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/14/154243
# Zero weapons of mass destruction have been found.
# At least 30,000 Iraqi civilians have died so far though some studies put the toll over 100,000.
# 66 journalists have been killed.
# 183,000 British and American troops remain in Iraq.
# Over 2,300 U.S. and coalition troops have been killed.
# At least 16,000 U.S. troops have been wounded in action.
# $200 billion has already been spent by the U.S. And news reports today indicate the total cost of the Iraq and Afghan wars could top half a trillion dollars.
# Between 60% and 80% of Iraqis still strongly oppose the presence of U.S. troops in their country.
# 67% of Iraqis feel less secure because of the occupation.
# There are currently an average of 90 attacks staged each day by the Iraqi resistance.
# 8% of Iraq’s children are suffering acute malnutrition.
Sami Rousuli, He was living in Minnesota at the time of the invasion but has since returned to Iraq to live. He now heads up the Muslim Peacemaker Team. He joins us from Karbala.
Robert Fisk, Middle East correspondent for the London’s Independent who has reported extensively from Iraq during the war.
LISTEN ONLINE:
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/14/154243
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