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

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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