What is Really Happening in Iraq (Graphic Images)
Iraq War Facts [?]: Cost of deploying one U.S. soldier for one year in Iraq as $390,000. 4,439 US troops are dead. 32,033 are wounded, 20% of which are serious brain or spinal injuries. 30% of returning troops develop serious mental & health problems. Iraqi civilian casualties stand well above 600,000 [?]. The Iraq War, also referred to as "Operation Iraqi Freedom", began in the March of 2003. In the lead up to the [illegal] invasion, the Governments of United States and United Kingdom [lied] and asserted that Saddam Hussein, then the President of Iraq, was developing weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) and, thereby, threatening the security of the United States and its allies. Since 2003, the Iraq war has claimed the lives of approximately 4,500 US troops and over 600,000 Iraqi civilians (estimates widely vary). The US news media would sanitized and censored the coverage of the War. In fact, Scott McClellan, the former White House Press Secretary for President Geroge Bush, publicly stated that the Media had been too easy on George Bush when the US was preparing for the [illegal] invasion.