U.S. Troop Casualties - 4,439 US Troops Wounded - 32,033 Iraqi Death toll – Over 100,000

Spent & Approved War-Spending - About $900 billion of US taxpayers' funds

Lost & Unaccounted for in Iraq - $9 billion of US taxpayers' money

Missing - $1 billion in tractor trailers, tank recovery vehicles, machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades and other equipment and services provided to the Iraqi security forces.

Mismanaged & Wasted in Iraq - $10 billion

Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki’s government was approved in 2010.

All of the major political parties and ethnic groups are participating for the first time in an Iraqi government.

In May of 2010 an agreement was reached to end the de-Baathification campaign.

The disqualification of hundreds of candidates threw politics into turmoil before the March 7 parliamentary elections.

“There will be no more.” President Jalal Talabani stated.

Noted by many as one of the United States’ biggest mistakes in the war.

President George W. Bush blamed L. Paul Bremer for the decision to disband the Iraqi military.

Bremer claims that he was only taking orders from the then secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld.

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