Sunday, March 20, 2005
Two Years Later
Posted by Bruce Barry on Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 7:24 AM
Status and cost of the Iraq war two years in? The Center for American Progress has compiled and sourced an accounting by the numbers. A few highlights:
Those who support this war ought to be able to say how high these costs and casualties can go before it would become no longer justifiable. Exactly how many lives and limbs and billions of dollars would make an armed invasion in the pursuit of non-existent weapons no longer worth it?
U.S. taxpayers dollars spent on the war in Iraq: $200 billion
Estimated number of troops currently deployed in Iraq: 152,000
U.S. troops killed: 1,511
Americans wounded: 11,285
Estimated number of Iraqi civilians killed: 21,100-39,300
Non-U.S. coalition troops killed in Iraq: 176
Daily average number of insurgent attacks in February 2005: 70
Daily average number of insurgent attacks in February 2004: 14
Estimated number of insurgents in Iraq today: 18,000
Estimated number of insurgents in Iraq in June 2003: 5,000
Countries remaining in the "coalition of the willing": 27
Former coalition members that have withdrawn or announced plans to do so: 14
Those who support this war ought to be able to say how high these costs and casualties can go before it would become no longer justifiable. Exactly how many lives and limbs and billions of dollars would make an armed invasion in the pursuit of non-existent weapons no longer worth it?
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