3973:
U.S. Deaths Confirmed By the DoD (March 3, 2008)
 |
| Year
|
US
Deaths |
US
Wounded |
| 2003 |
486 |
2,416
|
| 2004
|
849 |
8,002
|
| 2005 |
846 |
5,947
|
| 2006
|
822 |
6,400 |
| 2007
|
901 |
6,084 |
| 2008
|
69 |
231
|
| Total
|
3973 |
29,080
|
|
May
2, 2003: The day the President arrived on the deck of
an aircraft carrier and declared "Mission Accomplished."
64%:
Percentage of Americans who oppose the war in Iraq
(CNN/Opinion Research Corporation Poll. Feb. 1-3, 2008)
57%: Percentage
of Iraqis who think it is acceptable to attack American soldiers. (Up
from 51% in March and 17% back in February 2004.)
(August 2007: ABC; BBC; NHK; D3 Systems of Vienna, Va.; and KA Research
of Turkey)
 |
81,000
- >600,000: Estimates of number of civilians reported
killed by military intervention in Iraq
(Epidemiologists have estimated that 655,000 more people have died
in Iraq since the war began in March 2003 than would have died if
the invasion had not occurred.) |
49:
Number of countries in the Coalition of the Willing when the invasion
began in 2003
25: Current number of countries supplying 11,685 troops
-- about 7% of the size of the U.S. forces.
>4
million: Number of displaced Iraqis: more than 2 million
uprooted within Iraq, and as many have fled to neighboring countries.
 |
$600
billion: Approved funds for the war ($499 billion
spent as of today). President Bush has requested another $200 billion
for 2008, which would bring the cumulative total to close to $800
billion.
$3 trillion:
Estimate of true cost of war by Nobel Prize-winning economists (see
below). |
$270
million: Number
of dollars the U.S. spends each day in Iraq
$390,000:
Cost of deploying one U.S. soldier for one year in Iraq
(Congressional Research Service)
$9
billion: Amount lost & unaccounted for in Iraq
$1.4
billion: Amount
of Halliburton overcharges classified by the Pentagon as unreasonable
and unsupported
$20
billion: Amount paid to KBR, a former Halliburton division,
to supply U.S. military in Iraq with food, fuel, housing and other items
$3.2
billion:
Portion of that $20 billion that Pentagon auditors deem "questionable
or supportable"
75:
Number of major U.S. bases in Iraq (The Nation/New York Times)
166,895:
Troops in Iraq: 157,000 from the U.S., 4,500 from the UK, 2,000 from Georgia,
900 from Poland, 650 from South Korea and 1,845 from all other nations
6,000:
Iraqi troops trained and able to function independent
of U.S. forces (NBC's "Meet the Press" on May 20, 2007)
27
to 60%: Iraqi unemployment rate (depending on where curfew
is in effect)
28%:
Iraqi children suffering from chronic malnutrition (CNN.com, July 30,
2007)
40%:
Professionals who have left Iraq since 2003
34,000:
Iraqi physicians before 2003 invasion
12,000:
Iraqi physicians who have left Iraq since 2005 invasion
2,000: Iraqi physicians
murdered since 2003 invasion
10.9:
Average
Daily Hours Iraqi Homes Have Electricity (May 2007)
5.6: Average Daily
Hours Baghdad Homes Have Electricity (May 2007)
16 to 24: Pre-War
Daily Hours Baghdad Homes Had Electricity
70%:
Iraqis without access to adequate water supplies (CNN.com, July 30, 2007)
22%: Water Treatment
Plants Rehabilitated
0:
Number of WMDs found in Iraq
0: Number of connections
between Saddam Hussein and the attacks of 9/11
0: Number of convincing
reasons for starting the war, and continuing the occupation
March
19 marks the 5th anniversary.
Join one of the many actions of protest happening around
the country!
And
speak out to the media!
Make
sure to write a letter to the editor as the anniversary date approaches,
and send it in time for publication on March 19. Note that as long as
our country is at war, and our troops are in harm's way, all of us should
be sacrificing something in our own lives.
Thanks.
| The
Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict
Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz and Harvard professor
Linda J. Bilmes cast a spotlight on expense items that have been hidden
from the U.S. taxpayer -- not only big-ticket items like replacing
military equipment (being used up at six times the peacetime rate)
but also the cost of caring for thousands of wounded veterans -- for
the rest of their lives. |
Sources
and Further Information
Iraq
Coalition Casualty Count | Costofwar.com
| Iraq
War Statistics
(from data by various think tanks, including The Brookings Institution's
Iraq Index, and from mainstream media sources. As of February 24, 2008,
except as indicated.)
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