Today 11 Sep­tem­ber 2008 is exactly the day 2000 since the U.S. occu­pied Iraq under the name “lib­er­at­ing Iraq”. Thanks to Al-Akhbar arti­cle as a reminder of achieve­ments of this “liberation”:

In 2000 days, about 1 mil­lion Iraqis killed and 4 mil­lion dis­placed which is the biggest exo­dus largest since the Pales­tin­ian refugee cri­sis in 1948. As for the Amer­i­can side there are 4155 dead sol­diers and 30324 injured, add to this 176 dead Brits and 138 dead from other nationalities.

The costs of the occu­pa­tion exceeded 1 tril­lion dol­lar, most of it is paid by the Amer­i­can taxpayer.

The facts indi­cate that the U.S. inva­sion of Iraq destroyed the infra­struc­ture of the coun­try, putting it in a civil war because of the wrong man­age­ment of the Amer­i­can gov­er­nor Paul Bre­mer, who based his deci­sions on sec­tar­ian divisions.

Since 2003 the Amer­i­can occu­pa­tion forces did not estab­lish a sin­gle power plant, claim­ing unsta­ble secu­rity sit­u­a­tion, and that includes the south­ern provinces, as well as Kur­dis­tan, which are rel­a­tively stable.

The same goes on the oil refiner­ies, for the first time in the his­tory of Iraq imports oil in bil­lions of dol­lars annu­ally while the coun­try lies on the sec­ond oil reserves.

As for the unem­ploy­ment, the rate reached the high­est lev­els and exceeded the 40% most of them are col­leges and insti­tutes grad­u­ates, who were in the past to ensure them­selves a place in gov­ern­ment depart­ments and institutions.