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US military deaths in the Iraq "war", so far : 4,373
Total military deaths in the Iraq "war", so far : 4,691
Source: http://icasualties.org/oif/
-- a site which in 2009 began to read,
Please Select Database:
Iraq
Afghanistan...
-- and now in 2010 still reads that way.
"Solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant / They make a desolation and they call it peace"
-- the Caledonian chieftain Calgacus, describing the Roman Empire, Tacitus Agr 30.
| Total Iraqi civilian deaths in the Iraq "war", so far: | |
| * President Bush, as of Dec 12, 2005: | "about 30,000..." |
| * Iraq Body Count (US volunteer group), as of Dec 28, 2006: | "52,054 to 57,617" |
| * Iraq Index (Brookings Institution), as of Oct 31, 2006: | "70,100" |
| * Iraq Health Minister Ali Al-Shemari, as of Nov 2006: | "150,000" |
| * Lancet UK medical journal, as of July 31, 2006: | "426,369 to 793,663" |
| Sources: Congressional Research Service, Iraq Body Count,
per The San Francisco Chronicle, Jan 1 2007, page A10, compiled by Johnny Miller, Chronicle research librarian. |
| And just one among many ironies, in all of this... |
| VA edits tally of U.S. war wounded (NY Times, January 30, 2007) |
| "For the last few months, anyone who consulted the Veterans Affairs Department's Web site to learn how many U.S. troops had been wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan, the number shown was 50,508. But on Jan. 10, without explanation, the figure plummeted to 21,649..." |
| http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/01/30/MNG5ENRBRR1.DTL |
| The Who warned us, 'way back in 1971, "We won't get fooled again..." |
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Last update: January 22, 2010