... the IRAQ WAR begun five Years ago::... we remind at the Appeal for Peace of German Sportsmen!

... we are reminding of the
PEACE LIST OF GERMAN SPORTS

... biggest Peace Initiative by German Sportsmen!
Five years ago, in an Appeal for peace: "SPORTSMEN AGAINST WAR" almost 2.500 German Olympic Champions and participants, World and European Champions and sportsmen turned against the war in Iraq with an unparalleled collection of signatures.
GYMmedia INTERNATIONAL hosted this initiative back then, of which Germany's Olympic Champion in Gymnastics Klaus KOESTE was one of the initiators, together with the German cyling legend Gustav Adolf SCHUR.
People of different confessions, party memberships and political opinions adhered to the campaign.
The war could not be prevented and started on March 20th 2003...

COSTS FOR THE WAR IN IRAQ:
400 Million Dollar per day =5.000 $ per second

Economist estimate the total costs of the ambitious experiment for democracy of the USA in Iraq to be up to three billion Dollar (= two billion Euro) - and because you cannot buy a victory, the costs are raising on and on.

Budget specialists in the US congress estimate the costs of the intervention to be over 400 million Dollar a day currently....,
- that is about 5.000 Dollar per second!

By now, about 3.800 US-soldiers lost their lives in the war in Iraq, almost 28.000 were injured.
The number of the Iraqi victims of the war can only be estimated, which are between 70.000 and 150.000 deads. A controversial US study even estimated the number of dead Iraqis to be 655.000 ...!
As expected, the war did not solve the problems.
Hence, the "Peace list of German sports" is more up-to-date than ever, even after five years!
* Eckhard Herholz / GYMmedia