September 11ths and the Cost of War in Arkansas

September 11, 1919 - U.S. troops landed in Honduras on this day to protect American banana interests.

September 11, 1922 - At this time the British mandate of Palestine began

September 11, 1941 - Ground broken for the construction of The Pentagon.

September 11, 1942 - One of the first internment camps for Japanese Americans during World War II opened on this day in Topaz, Utah.

September 11, 1971 - On this day Attica prison in New York was in the midst of the most historic prison uprising in U.S. history.

September 11, 1973 - The democratically elected president of Chile, Salvador Allende, died on this day as the Chilean military led a coup against his government and installed the dictator, Augusto Pinochet.

September 11, 1965 - The first cavalry division arrived in Vietnam on this day, marking an escalation in the long, brutal, U.S. war against Southeast Asia

September 11, 1977 in South Africa Steve Biko founder of the black consciousness movement was being beaten in the back of a van by apartheid forces. He died in the early morning hours of Sept. 12, 1977.

September 11, 1990 - U.S. President George H. W. Bush delivers a nationally televised speech in which he threatens the use of force to remove Iraqi soldiers from Kuwait, New world order is mentioned in his speech for the first time.

September 11, 2001 2,974 people are killed in the world trade center attacks.

September 11, 2001 at 4:30 Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld was telling his aides to come up with plans for striking Iraq

September 11, 2001 was the day the government made the first of 935 false statements about the Iraq war.

September 12, 2001 Secretary Rumsfeld complained that there were no decent targets for bombing in Afghanistan and that we should consider bombing Iraq, which, he said, had better targets



Photo taken from Warfour

$21,000 per U.S. household has been spent on the Iraq war so far

$103.5 million is the amount Fayetteville, Arkansas tax payers have paid for the Iraq War

$130.5 million could have helped Fayetteville provide:

68,438 People with Health Care or

86,479 Homes with Renewable Electricity or

2,027 Music and Arts Teachers or

17,476 Head Start Places for Children

In the state of Arkansas 1 in 4 children live in poverty.



Survey conducted by the University of Arkansas

Nearly $9 billion of money spent on Iraqi reconstruction is unaccounted for.

$474 billion has been spent as of 12/07

$3 trillion dollars is the estimated total cost of the war in Iraq

80 Arkansans have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan

145 servicemen have died of self inflicted wounds since the beginning of the Iraq war.

3992 U.S. Military service people have been killed in the war

29, 203 Number of U.S. troops wounded in combat since the war began

155,000 Number of U.S. soldiers in Iraq

946,000 to 1,120,000 violent deaths due to the Iraq War death

3.4 Internally displaced and Iraqi refugees

5 million Iraqi children are orphans

95 percent of the urban and 75 percent of the rural populations in Iraq had access to safe water before the first Gulf War.

30 percent of Iraqis lack clean drinking water in 2003

5,000 people in northern Iraq have cholera from unclean drinking water

April 5, 2005, the State Department had reallocated funding for water to other priorities such as security

April 13, 2005 A slime-mold beetle was named in homage to Rumsfeld, Bush and Cheney. (Agathidium Rumsfeldi, Agathidium Bushi, Agathidium Cheneyi)