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To: i-node who wrote (682903)	11/4/2012 11:46:31 AM
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A total of 4,486 U.S. soldiers were killed in Iraq between 2003 and 2012

To: i-node who wrote (682903)	11/4/2012 11:49:52 AM
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The Difference Between Bush's First Term Vs. Obama's First Term In One Devastating Chart Joe Weisenthal \| Nov. 4, 2012, 8:46 AM \| 13,748 \| 50 With the release of Friday's jobs report -- the last one before the election -- we thought it made sense to update one of our favorite charts comparing Obama's first term vs. George W. Bush's first term, when it comes to jobs. We first saw the made this summer by Invictus at The Big Picture. The left side of the chart shows the first Bush years. The right is Obama's. The red line represents the trajectory of private sector jobs, while the blue and green lines represent the trajectory of state and local government jobs. All are set at 100 to the beginning, just for the sake of normalizing each number to the same point. As you can see, under Bush's first term, private sector jobs never got to their start point, while public sector jobs soared. Under Obama private sector jobs have now easily surpassed the level they were at when he started, while public sector employment is way down, with no comeback having yet commenced. Read more: businessinsider.com