U.S. military dead in Iraq, including suicides, 2,125;
US military amputeed, wounded, injured, mentally ill, all now out of Iraq, 49,500;
Iraqi civilians dead, 118,900.
Now the comment:
The Nobel prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter, in his acceptance speech to the Nobel committee.
"The invasion of Iraq was a bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of international law," he said.
"The invasion was an arbitrary military action inspired by a series of lies upon lies and gross manipulation of the media and therefore of the public ... a formidable assertion of military force responsible for the death and mutilation of thousands and thousands of innocent people.
"We have brought torture, cluster bombs, depleted uranium, innumerable acts of random murder, misery, degradation and death to the Iraqi people, and call it 'bringing freedom and democracy to the Middle East'."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1661531,00.html
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