Four Years of WAr

March 20, 2007 - Tuesday

1462 days into the war.

4th Anniversary of the Invasion

U.S. MILITARY DEATHS IN IRAQ: 3218
]U.S. MILITARY WOUNDED IN IRAQ: 24042
http://www.michaelmoore.com

IRAQI CIVILIAN DEATHS
(MINIMUM): 59326
(MAXIMUM): 65160
(LANCET ESTIMATE) 638,000
http://www.iraqbodycount.net

COST OF THE WAR SO FAR (ROUNDED TO THE NEAREST MILLION): $409,890,000,000
http://www.costofwar.com

Please note that the above figures, from the IBC website, are NOT estimates of total Iraqi civilians killed as a result of the US invasion and its aftermath. Rather, they are a count of Western-reported verifiable violent deaths, and likely to be a small percentage of the true figure. Les Roberts, author of the Lancet Report, believes the actual number may now be as high as 300,000.

The First Lancet Report
http://www.thelancet.com/webfiles/im...3606694919.pdf

Study Claims Iraq's 'Excess' Death Toll Has Reached 655,000

By David Brown
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, October 11, 2006

A team of American and Iraqi epidemiologists estimates that 655,000 more people have died in Iraq since coalition forces arrived in March 2003 than would have died if the invasion had not occurred.

The estimate, produced by interviewing residents during a random sampling of households throughout the country, is far higher than ones produced by other groups, including Iraq's government.

It is more than 20 times the estimate of 30,000 civilian deaths that President Bush gave in a speech in December. It is more than 10 times the estimate of roughly 50,000 civilian deaths made by the British-based Iraq Body Count research group.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...001442_pf.html

The Second Lancet Report
http://web.mit.edu/CIS/pdf/Human_Cost_of_War.pdf

wikipedia summary of casualties
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_war_casualties

Faces of the Fallen – Photos of the US dead
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/fallen/

Photo exhibition of US wounded
http://www.purpleheartsbook.com/

Excellent website
http://www.icasualties.org/oif/

Flags of the Fallen
http://apps.dailyemerald.com/pages/multimedia/iraq_count/index.html

Benchmarks for this thread:

Body Count Begun: 10/27/05
Cost Count Begun: 11/19/05
Iraqi Civilian Deaths (Maximum) Count Begun: 2/28/06
U.S. Military Wounded Count Begun: 7/5/06

U.S. MILITARY DEATHS IN IRAQ: 2000
IRAQI CIVILIAN DEATHS (MINIMUM): 26690
IRAQI CIVILIAN DEATHS (MINIMUM): 32153
U.S. MILITARY WOUNDED COUNT: 18490
COST OF THE WAR (ROUNDED TO THE NEAREST MILLION): $220,817,000,000

U.S. MILITARY DEATHS IN IRAQ IN 2005 - 841
U.S. MILITARY DEATHS IN IRAQ IN 2004 – 846

Total Deaths All 9/11 Attacks - 3,030
Total Injured All 9/11 Attacks - 2,337

The World Trade Center
New York City

Total Deaths WTC 9/11 Attack - 2,792
Total Injured WTC 9/11 Attack - 2,261

The Pentagon & Flight 93
Washington & Shanksville

Total Deaths 9/11 Attack
The Pentagon – 188
Total Injured 9/11 Attack
The Pentagon – 76

Total Deaths United Airlines Flight 93
Shanksville, PA – 40
http://vikingphoenix.com/news/stn/20...casualties.htm

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