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About the same as ten years of the vietnam war in current 2011 dollars. more than 1 million americans have served in iraq since the war began in 2003. the war has left 4,482 of those americans dead. 32,213 wounded. and 1,146 left as amputees. there is no accurate official count of how many iraqis have been killed or wounded in this war, but we do know that they suffered much more than we did with more than 100,000 casualties. republicans have been predictably critical of president obama's withdrawal plan. most of them o blblivious that s the withdrawal plan but in place by president bush. >> w...

Independent iraq led by a reliable, credible authoritative government, you have to give them the ability to be a government. and this is what they want. and if that's the case, and if they're not going to give immunity to our soldiers, legal protection, we need to leave. and we need to leave when we said we were going to leave. that was the commitment of the prior administration. >> rachel, you know we're in the thick of a presidential campaign when the president makes a foreign policy and military announcement like this today. and then his re-election campaign office has to issue a reply to m...

Written statement. "i'm deeply concerned that president obama is putting political expediency ahead of sound military and security judgment by announcing an end to troop level negotiations and a withdrawal from iraq by year's end. the president was slow to engage the iraqis and there's little evidence today's decision is based on advice from military commanders." senator john mccain, the last republican nominee for president who has never had a plan for ending the war in iraq, also released a written statement. "i respectfully disagree with the president. this decision will be viewed as a stra...