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Month 47 of the Iraq War By the Numbers
In the course of the nearly four-year-old Mess in Mesopotamia, February 2007 was definitely a doozy.
There was the first anniversary of the civil war, some of the bloodiest suicide attacks to date, an upsurge in U.S. helicopter shoot-downs by insurgents, Moktada Al-Sadr’s all-expenses-paid vacation to Iran, the official start of President Bush’s “surge” strategy and arcades akimbo in Congress as the Democrats dithered over what to do about the war and the Republicans stonewalled.
Oh, and the president kept his record unblemished by not attending any military funerals.
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One Response to “Month 47 of the Iraq War By the Numbers”
Four year. Four hundred billion dollars.
And the next supplemental appropriations bill for the war comes up in late March. It’ll be interesting to see how more more billions of dollars will be allocated to the war and whether there will be any conditions set on the nature of the spending.