Who would've thought?

It's the 6th Birthday of the invasion of Iraq today!!! And we're still there......no, seriously, we should've found WMD's, got rid of the terrorists, created a new peaceful nation in the middle-east and withdrawn. But if it had all gone to plan maybe Obamarama wouldn't have swept the USA. And all these what-ifs make my head hurt! So let's instead examine what it's like in Iraq now in 5 easy numerical facts!

1. 179 UK soldiers have died in Iraq as of 20th March 2009. The most deaths recorded thus far were in 2007 where the death toll was 47.
2. It took just 20 days to topple Saddam Hussein's regime (9th April 2003) although President Bush did not declare victory until the 1st May
3. On the 15th November 2003 it was announced Iraqi sovereignty would be reached by 2005 - just 2 years away
4. It will take 18 months for US troops to leave Iraq following the announcement of Obama's withdrawal plan (as of 27th February 2009)
5. 3.1% of Iraqi households are "food insecure" (per the latest World Food Programme survey) a vast improvement on the previous 2005 survey when 15.4% was the figure

Iraq is a kinda mixed bag then (and I don't just mean Sunni vs. Shia.) The controversy surrounding it pretty much sunk two major world leaders respect, YET both got re-elected. Also let's not discount the importance of industrial developments. 94% of Iraqi's have Colour TV people's!!! And as we all know TV is the fuel of life.