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JandP

Thursday, October 25, 2007

Cost of Iraq war

I gave out this page of notes as prep for a justice and peace forum last night. (I can't get the URLs to copy in full, but they are as follows: antiwar.com/casualties/ and justforeignpolicy.org and nationalpriorities.org/Cost-of-War/Cost-of-War-3.html)

Americans killed in Iraq:

* Since 3/19/03: 3,836
* Since "Mission Accomplished" (5/1/03): 3,697

Americans wounded in Iraq:

* Officially, 28,276
* Estimated, up to 100,000

Iraqis killed:

* Johns Hopkins/Lancet estimate of July 2006: 601,000 violent Iraqi deaths
* Sept. 2007 study by the prestigious Opinion Research Business (UK) estimates that 1.2 million Iraqis have been killed violently since the U.S. invasion

In dollars::

* As of today, at 2:40 p.m.: $462,715,002,937. ($333,000 per day)