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Wednesday 08 September 2004

    On the day Operation Iraqi Freedom suffered the 1,000th death of a United States soldier, some quick numbers are in order:

    1,095 days since the attacks of September 11;

    538 days since the invasion and occupation of Iraq;

    1,001 American soldiers dead in Iraq;

    1,132 total Coalition soldiers dead in Iraq;

    More than 20,000 'medical evacuations' of American soldiers from Iraq;

    More than 10,000 civilians dead in Iraq;

    0 weapons of mass destruction;

    0 democratic elections in Iraq;

    0 connections between Iraq and the attacks of September 11;

    0 captures of Osama bin Laden, in Iraq or anywhere else;

    $1.7 trillion to be spent on Iraq in the next decade, according to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences report by the Committee on International Security Studies (CISS).