The big historic event was the wars, not the Twin Towers

[Dick McManus]

Think about the WAR causalities that resulted from 9/11
The big historic event was the wars, not the Twin Towers

Iraqi Civilians Killed
The results showed that the national rate of killing between April
2003 and June 2006 averaged just over 120 a day. This was double the
number killed during Saddam's last two years in power. The study's
figures ignored deaths from accident, disease or suicide. They
estimated the civilian death toll in the occupation's first three
years as 151,000. The true figure could be anywhere between 104,000
and 230,000 allowing for misreporting,

The British polling firm Opinion Research Business says, "We believe
the range is a minimum of 733,158 to a maximum of 1,446,063."

In a 1995 U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) report that
567,000 Iraqi children under the age of five had died as a result of
the sanctions.

Iraqi Refugees in Syria & Jordan - 2.1 million to 2.25 million
Iraqi Insurgents Killed, Roughly Estimated - 55,000
Water Treatment Plants Rehabilitated - 22%
U.S. Troop Casualties - 4,477 US troops
Non-U.S. Troop Casualties - Total 316, with 179 from the UK
US Troops Wounded - 32,130 as of June 30, 2011, 20% of which are
serious brain or spinal injuries
Journalists killed - 149, 97 by murder and 52 by acts of war


Casualties in Afghanistan:

Afghan troops killed [1]
8,587
Afghan troops seriously injured [2]
25,761
Afghan civilians killed [3]
8,813
Afghan civilians seriously injured [4]
15,863
U.S. troops killed [5]
1,140
U.S. troops seriously injured [6]
3,420
Other coalition troops killed [7]
772
Other coalition troops seriously injured [8]
2,316
Contractors killed [9]
298
Contractors seriously injured [10]
2,428
Journalists killed [11]
19
Journalists seriously injured [12]
unknown
Total killed in Afghanistan 19,629
Total injured in Afghanistan 48,644


Casualties in Iraq:

Iraqi troops killed [13]
30,000
Iraqi troops seriously injured [14]
90,000
Iraqi civilians killed [15]
864,531
Iraqi civilians seriously injured [16]
1,556,156
U.S. troops killed [17]
4,414
U.S. troops seriously injured [18]
31,882
Other coalition troops killed [19]
318
Other coalition troops seriously injured [20]
2,296
Contractors killed [21]
933
Contractors seriously injured [22]
10,569
Journalists killed [23]
142
Journalists seriously injured [24]
unknown
Total killed in Iraq 900,338
Total injured in Iraq 1,690,903

Source: google it.
When Obama recently announced a drawdown of U.S. troops from
Afghanistan, he said America's wars have cost the country $1 trillion
dollars.
“The reasonable estimate is approximately $4 trillion for the war, up
to... today and including some of the future costs that we are
obligated to pay for veterans care," "In addition, another $1 trillion
in interest payments on the debt, we estimate will be required through
2020.”