The War, The Numbers, Six Years Later

Lest we forget

Americans killed: 4,259. Americans wounded: officially, 31,089; estimated, over 100,000.

Iraqis killed: estimates range from 91,121 to 655,000 to 1.3 million.

Iraqis displaced within Iraq: over 2.3 million.

Iraqi refugees in Syria and Jordan: 2.1 to 2.3 million.

U.S. cost: over $800 billion. Cost per second: $5,000.

Cost to deploy one soldier for one year: $390,000.

Missing: $9 billion in U.S. money, $549.7 million in spare parts, $1 billion in arms and vehicles.

Iraqis strongly opposed to 'coalition' troops: 82%.

Iraqis without access to adequate water: 70%.

Estimated Insurgent Strength, Nov. 2003: 15,000.
Est. Insurgent Strength, June 2007: 70,000.

--Abby Zimet, Common Dreams