Two snapshots in time

March 19, 2003

• 70 percent of Americans supported invading Iraq
• 45 percent of Americans believed Saddam Hussein was "personally involved" in Sept. 11
• Kathy was in California for work and marched with thousands of others that evening against the war.
• Ed was home in Portland watching the news and thinking to himself, "I can't believe the nutbar actually did it."

March 19, 2008

• 60% of Americans think invading Iraq was a mistake.
• The Pentagon has finally acknowledged that there was no link between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda.
• 4151 dead U.S. soldiers and contractors
• 29,451 physically wounded American soldiers (note - the VA only counts those wounded in direct combat. According to Stiglitz and Bilmes, authors of the 3 Trillion Dollar War, this number is less than 1/2 of all those wounded in the field).
• 82,000 dead Iraqi civilians (Minimum estimate)
• Untold wounded Iraqi civilians
• Over 4.5 million Iraqis internally displaced or living abroad as refugees
• Kathy is in California, working
• Ed is in Tikrit thinking to himself, "I still can't believe the nutbar actually did it."