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Did You Know?

By Jerry and Ishu. Did You Know?. It began on September 11. 26 days later: Invasion of Afghanistan begins. March:20 2003 Operation Iraqi Freedom Began. Dec. 6 , 2002: The Taliban surrender their last stronghold of Kandahar. Afghanistan.

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  1. By Jerry and Ishu Did You Know?

  2. It began on September 11 26 days later: Invasion of Afghanistan begins. March:20 2003 Operation Iraqi Freedom Began

  3. Dec. 6, 2002: The Taliban surrender their last stronghold of Kandahar Afghanistan APRIL 9, 2003: Saddam Hussein Statue Toppled in Iraq MAY 1, 2003: Bush said : Mission Accomplished

  4. But 9 years later, We are still there. With…. 36 different countries involved in Afghanistan.

  5. We have more than : 27 690 International Troops + 78 400 U.S troops Occupying Afghanistan

  6. We Used 71,700 Private Security Contractors Only 3000 are armed.

  7. We have help from: 163,146 Afghan Army & Police

  8. To kill an estimated: In 2010 x 3 30,000 Taliban In 2006

  9. Currently we have spent more than $784 billion on Iraq War $321 billion on Afghanistan $28.7 billion Enhanced Security $18.4 billion on Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Fund And $6billion that we can not allocate.

  10. The estimated cost of the war in Iraq: $60 billion In 2003

  11. Eventual predictedcost of the war today is ( all countries) Iraq + Afghanistan • 3 trillion dollars $3 000 000000000

  12. And it takes  300 billion to lift 1 billion out of extreme poverty

  13. 80-600 billionto send people to Mars.

  14. 64 billion to eradicate Aidsworldwide. (Equal to 32 days of the war)

  15. But sometimes joining a war is necessary. Even at the cost.

  16. But Current warsstill the second most expensive. 2008 figures

  17. But lives are more importantthan money right? US: 658 The world lost: UK: 227 Can: 125 2009 figures

  18. But compared to % of troops Canada takes it the hardest at 5.1% UK: 3.6 % US: 2.5%

  19. Number one killer: Is rising.

  20. Withdraw our troops?

  21. While we Were There. And the dictatorship was destroyed. Infrastructure has been developed at a furious rate. Vaccination has increased.

  22. The economy in Afghanistan now has been better than ever before.

  23. In 2001, there were virtually no cell phones in Afghanistan. Today, there are more than 8 million cell phone users across Afghanistan.

  24. ‘I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, "Mother, what was war?“’  ~Eve Merriam

  25. Bibliography • http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/ • http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/the-billion-dollar-o-gram-2009/ • http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/because-every-country-is-the-best-at-something/ • http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/apr/01/information-is-beautiful-military-spending • http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2009/how-i-learnt-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-bomb/ • http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2009/nov/13/information-beautiful-afghanistan • http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2009/fatal-infection/ • http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/haiti-earthquake-whos-given-what/ • http://www.mherrera.org/world.htm • http://filipspagnoli.wordpress.com/stats-on-human-rights/ • http://www.globalissues.org/article/26/poverty-facts-and-stats • http://www.burtonmackenzie.com/2007/09/instead-of-sending-humans-to-mars-11.html • http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2009/kyoto-whos-on-target/

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