Subject: [big campaign] UPDATED: Media Advisory for Wednesday, April 30, 2008 at 11 a.m. ET
From: "Brad Woodhouse" <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked], [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:31:04 -0400
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Lt. Gen. Robert Gard, USA Ret. will also join the call...

Iraq Campaign 2008
www.iraqcampaign.org <http://www.iraqcampaign.org/> 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                          CONTACT:  Jeremy Funk,
202.470.5878

DATE: April 29, 200

***Media Advisory for Wednesday, April 30, 2008 at 11 a.m. ET***

On Eve of the Fifth Anniversary of President's 'Mission Accomplished' in
Iraq Speech, National Security Experts, Anti-War Advocates, to Discuss
Situation in Iraq, Reflect Upon Enormous Cost of the War in Lives and
Treasure and to the Nation's Security Since May 1, 2003

Call-In#: 888-325-3989, Passcode: 585071

 

"Admiral Kelly, Captain Card, officers and sailors of the USS Abraham
Lincoln, my fellow Americans, major combat operations in Iraq have
ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have
prevailed" - President George W. Bush, USS Abraham Lincoln, May 1, 2003

Washington D.C. -- On the eve of the fifth anniversary of President
Bush's "Mission Accomplished" in Iraq speech delivered on the on the USS
Abraham Lincoln on May 1, 2003, national security experts and anti-war
advocates will hold a press conference call on Wednesday, April 30th at
11:00 A.M. ET to discuss the situation in Iraq and reflect on the
enormous cost of the war in American lives and treasure and to the
nation's security since the President declared major combat operations
had ended.  In addition, MoveOn.org Political Action, a leading member
of the Iraq Campaign 2008, will make a major announcement on the call
and the Iraq Campaign 2008 will announce activities being held across
the country on May 1st, including a flagship event outside the White
House.  

*See below statistics: since President Bush declared mission
accomplished five years ago, nearly 4,000 American soldiers have lost
their lives, nearly 30,000 have been wounded, and nearly half a trillion
dollars has been spent.  The war has cost more than 10 times what
President Bush had predicted and, without an end-game strategy, could
cost our country $3 trillion
<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/
article3419840.ece> , according to Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph
Stiglitz.  Meanwhile, the Iraqis have a multibillion-dollar surplus that
they have not spent.  

WHO:             Lt. Gen. Robert Gard, USA Ret. 

Brian Katulis -- Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress Action Fund

Jon Soltz -- Co-Founder and Chair of VoteVets.org

                        Eli Pariser -- Executive Director, MoveOn.org
Political Action                        

                        Tom Swan - Campaign Manager, Iraq Campaign 2008

WHAT:           On Eve of the Fifth Anniversary of President's 'Mission
Accomplished' in Iraq Speech, National Security Experts and anti-war
advocates to Hold Press Conference Call to Discuss Deteriorating
Security Situation in Iraq, Call for Responsible End to the War

WHEN:           Wednesday, April 30, 2008 at 11 a.m. ET

Call-In#: 888-325-3989

Passcode: 585071

-30-

 

The Cost of War Since 'Mission Accomplished'

May 1, 2003

Five Years Later 
(Updated April 24, 2008)

US TROOPS KILLED IN IRAQ

(http://www.icasualties.org/oif/; as of 4/21/08)

139

4,051

US TROOPS WOUNDED IN IRAQ

(http://www.icasualties.org/oif/; as of 4/15/08)

524

29,780

IRAQI CIVILIANS KILLED IN THE WAR

(World Health Organization; http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22578010/)

N/A

~150,000

IRAQI CIVILIANS FORCED FROM THEIR HOMES

(United Nations; http://www.unhcr.org/iraq.html)

N/A

~ 4.7 million

US TROOPS DEPLOYED IN IRAQ

(Brookings Institute, Iraq Index; 
http://www.brookings.edu/saban/~/media/Files/Centers/Saban/Iraq%20Index/
index.pdf)

150,000

155,000

FOREIGN TROOPS IN "COALITION OF THE WILLING"

(Brookings Institute, Iraq Index; 
http://www.brookings.edu/saban/~/media/Files/Centers/Saban/Iraq%20Index/
index.pdf)

23,000

9,852

TOTAL DIRECT COST 

(Brookings Institute, Iraq Index; 
http://www3.brookings.edu/fp/saban/iraq/index.pdf)

$53 billion

$525.9 billion

IMPACT OF THE WAR ON THE US ECONOMY

(Congressional Joint Economic Committee Report
<http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=1&url=http://jec.senate.gov/Do
cuments/Reports/11.13.07IraqEconomicCostsReport.pdf&ei=XEzYR6_cMoykgQKer
LnuBA&usg=AFQjCNECx-jXvt_jjAT2K1-xxnp81la41A&sig2=lKAZ6bsPl9pQbbqzJxl_ug
> )

N/A

$1.3 trillion

COST OF IRAQ WAR TO THE AVERAGE AMERICAN FAMILY

(Congressional Joint Economic Committee Report
<http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=1&url=http://jec.senate.gov/Do
cuments/Reports/11.13.07IraqEconomicCostsReport.pdf&ei=XEzYR6_cMoykgQKer
LnuBA&usg=AFQjCNECx-jXvt_jjAT2K1-xxnp81la41A&sig2=lKAZ6bsPl9pQbbqzJxl_ug
> )

N/A

$16,500

AMERICANS WHO APPROVE OF BUSH'S HANDLING OF THE IRAQ WAR (
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/documents/postpoll_041408.
html?sid=ST2008041403445)

72%

33%

PRICE OF OIL 

(Department of Energy; 
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/international/crude2.html)

~ $26 / bbl

~ $119 / bbl

 

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