You Do The Math

The following numbers are current as of mid-January 2006 and, except for the first two items in the list, are based on only partial information and/or best-guess estimates by informed experts and news organizations. Actual numbers are probably higher, in some cases much higher than those shown below. And needless to say, all these numbers are fluid and continue to grow larger with every passing day.

You do the math. Your mileage may vary. Contents may have settled during handling.

Any way you add it up, though...

...it is simply beyond reprehensible -- egregiously heinous, in fact -- that our current 'leaders' started this dishonest war of choice over three years ago and still continue to prosecute it today, despite all evidence of its failure and its ever-mounting human costs.

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Number of American military forces killed in Iraq war:
2242

Number of non-American coalition forces killed in Iraq war:
212

Number of Iraqi security forces killed in Iraq war:
4056

Number of non-Iraqi civilian contractors killed in Iraq war:
309

Estimated number of Iraqi civilians killed in Iraq war:
at least 30,000

Estimated number of Americans wounded in Iraq war:
16,420

Estimated number of Iraqis wounded in Iraq war:
at least 60,000

An end to the American-induced bloodshed in Iraq:
PRICELESS

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'peacemaking' is an active not a passive verb,
Otter

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