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Saturday, June 26, 2004

Iraq by the numbers.

Here are a few links which track the civilian and military death-toll, and the financial cost of the Iraq war. As of today, there have been ~850 coalition military deaths (maybe closer to 1000). There have been over 10,000 civilian deaths. The cost is approaching $120bn.
  • U.S. Military Deaths in the Conquest of Iraq - interesting chart with links.
  • CostOfWar.com - compares scale of the war cost to public education, health insurance, college scholarships, etc. The war cost could have paid a year's salary for 2.3mn public school teachers, or provided health insurance to 51mn children.
  • IraqBodyCount.net - a running estimate of civilian Iraqi casualties.

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