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Stats on the Iraq war

Posted by patriot on March 29th, 2008

Wired’s blog carries a story detailing some stats about the Iraq war, now that we’ve reached the 4,000 casualty mark:

On March 26, 2008 the United States military casualty count in Iraq hit 4,000. When I heard that I decided to research other numbers associated with the war.

Over the past five years, US taxpayers have spent $506 billion on the Iraq War- that is over $100 billion a year just for war related expenses (and enough to fund NASA for 30 years). According to www.nationalpriorities.org the cost of the war so far works out to $1,721 per person.
Of the 4,002 US military fatalities, over 100 were women, 145 resulted from self inflicted wounds, and not included in that figure are the journalists and the military forces from other countries.

The author relies on official data only, which means that there is no count of how many Iraqis have died.

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