5: Number of years the Iraq war has lasted. (March 19, 2008, the 6th year begins.)
3973: U.S. Deaths Confirmed By the DoD (as of March 3, 2008)
May 2, 2003: The day the President arrived on the deck of an aircraft carrier and declared “Mission Accomplished.”
64%: Percentage of Americans who oppose the war in Iraq (CNN/Opinion Research Corporation Poll. Feb. 1-3, 2008)
57%: Percentage of Iraqis who think it is acceptable to attack American soldiers. (Up from 51% in March and 17% back in February 2004.) (August 2007: ABC; BBC; NHK; D3 Systems of Vienna, Va.; and KA Research of Turkey)
81,000 – >600,000: Estimates of number of civilians reported killed by military intervention in Iraq
(Epidemiologists have estimated that 655,000 more people have died in Iraq since the war began in March 2003 than would have died if the invasion had not occurred.)
49: Number of countries in the Coalition of the Willing when the invasion began in 2003
25: Current number of countries supplying 11,685 troops — about 7% of the size of the U.S. forces.
4 million: Number of displaced Iraqis: more than 2 million uprooted within Iraq, and as many have fled to neighboring countries.
$600 billion: Approved funds for the war ($499 billion spent as of today). President Bush has requested another $200 billion for 2008, which would bring the cumulative total to close to $800 billion.
$3 trillion: Estimate of true cost of war by Nobel Prize-winning economists (< #1>see below).
$270 million: Number of dollars the U.S. spends each day in Iraq
$390,000: Cost of deploying one U.S. soldier for one year in Iraq
(Congressional Research Service)
$9 billion: Amount lost & unaccounted for in Iraq
$1.4 billion: Amount of Halliburton overcharges classified by the Pentagon as unreasonable and unsupported
$20 billion: Amount paid to KBR, a former Halliburton division, to supply U.S. military in Iraq with food, fuel, housing and other items
$3.2 billion: Portion of that $20 billion that Pentagon auditors deem “questionable or supportable”
75: Number of major U.S. bases in Iraq (The Nation/New York Times)
166,895: Troops in Iraq: 157,000 from the U.S., 4,500 from the UK, 2,000 from Georgia, 900 from Poland, 650 from South Korea and 1,845 from all other nations
6,000: Iraqi troops trained and able to function independent of U.S. forces (NBC’s “Meet the Press” on May 20, 2007)
27 to 60%: Iraqi unemployment rate (depending on where curfew is in effect)
28%: Iraqi children suffering from chronic malnutrition (CNN.com, July 30, 2007)
40%: Professionals who have left Iraq since 2003
34,000: Iraqi physicians before 2003 invasion
12,000: Iraqi physicians who have left Iraq since 2005 invasion
2,000: Iraqi physicians murdered since 2003 invasion
10.9: Average Daily Hours Iraqi Homes Have Electricity (May 2007)
5.6: Average Daily Hours Baghdad Homes Have Electricity (May 2007)
16 to 24: Pre-War Daily Hours Baghdad Homes Had Electricity
70%: Iraqis without access to adequate water supplies (CNN.com, July 30, 2007)
22%: Water Treatment Plants Rehabilitated
0: Number of WMDs found in Iraq
0: Number of connections between Saddam Hussein and the attacks of 9/11
0: Number of convincing reasons for starting the war, and continuing the occupation