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No End In Sight. BY Kiera Blais English 12 Period 2. Stats about the war. Official number Wounded as of 2/25/11: 32987 Estimated number of over 100000 D eaths : 4,439 In combat: 3,503 Iraqi Civilian Deaths: 99,980 to 109,230 Cost of war: 1,163,469,400,000. Policy Decisions.
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No End In Sight BY Kiera Blais English 12 Period 2
Stats about the war • Official number Wounded as of 2/25/11: 32987 • Estimated number of over 100000 • Deaths: 4,439 • In combat: 3,503 • Iraqi Civilian Deaths: 99,980 to 109,230 • Cost of war: 1,163,469,400,000
Policy Decisions • 1.No Provisional Government: Iraq now has a 275 member council of representatives. • Iraq has a federal government • Iraqis are able to vote • Iraqis that voted got “finger-printed”
DeBa’athification • Some previous Ba’ath party members are being considered to get public sector work • http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/20030516_CPAORD_1_De-Ba_athification_of_Iraqi_Society_.pdf/page1-463px-20030516_CPAORD_1_De-Ba_athification_of_Iraqi_Society_.pdf.jpg
Disbanding the Iraq military • The army was brought back. • The U.S helped train the army • Iraq now has: A National Guard,
Abu Ghraib Prison… • Maltreatment • Aggravated assault • Battery • Rape • One prisoner Manadel al-Jamadi was tortured after being interrogated • He was left strappado hanging • He did not make it and the U.S military ruled it as a homicide • Strappado hanging is when the victim is hung by his wrists and his hands tied behind his back. • Another man was told to lay on one stretcher while a U.S sergeant put another stretcher on top of him and sat on him…he to died.
Other info… • Of the 4,439 Americans killed in Iraq: • 98% were male • 91% were non officers • 82% were on active duty • 11% were in the National Guard • 74% Caucasian • 9% African American • 11% Latino • 19% killed for non hostile causes • Continued • 54% were under 25 years of age • 72% were from the U.S army • 20% of the troops wounded have a serious brain injury or spinal injury • 30% of the troops developed serious mental health problems within 3 to 4 months of returning home