4,023: The number of dead U.S. G.I.s and Marines as of 04.07.08 http://www.antiwar.com/casualties/
296,281: The number of U.S. wounded as of 04.07.08 http://www.antiwar.com/casualties/
1,194,935: Iraqi deaths due to U.S Invasion http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html
3,884: The number of dead U.S. G.I.s and Marines since “Mission Accomplished” http://www.antiwar.com/casualties/
$506 Billion: Cost of Iraqi Conflict http://www.nationalpriorities.org/costofwar_home
$341.4 Million: Cost of Iraqi conflict per day http://www.nationalpriorities.org/costofwar_home
112 Billion Barrels: Estimate of Iraqi oil reserves. http://www.brookings.edu/papers/2003/0512globalenvironment_luft.aspx
2nd: Rank of Iraqi proven oil reserves in the world (Saudi Arabia is ranked first) http://usgovinfo.about.com/library/weekly/aairaqioil.htm
2.12 million Barrels per day: Iraqi oil output in 2002. http://www.opec.org/library/Annual%20Statistical%20Bulletin/interactive/FileZ/XL/T13.HTM
2.0 million Barrels per day: Iraqi oil output in 2006 http://www.opec.org/library/Annual%20Statistical%20Bulletin/interactive/FileZ/XL/T13.HTM
0: Number of Iraqi UN weapons inspectors killed by Iraqi’s prior to the 2003 US invasion.
0:Number of WMD’s found by the UN weapons inspectors. http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2004-03-02-un-wmd_x.htm
0: Number of U.S. and coalition forces killed by a WMD in Iraq.
0: Number of people arrested for the U.S. anthrax attacks. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2006/sep/09/comment.september11
32,000: The number of U.S. Troops in Afghanistan. http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/03/26/france.britain/index.html
140,000: Number of U.S. Troops in Iraq. http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0227/p99s04-duts.html
21: Number of Coalition Countries with Troops in Iraq. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multinational_force_in_Iraq
18: Number of Coalition Countries that have withdrawn their Troops from Iraq. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multinational_force_in_Iraq
24:Number of Troops Moldovia has deployed in Iraq. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multinational_force_in_Iraq
5: Number of draft deferments VP Dick Cheney received during the Vietnam War. http://www.rense.com/general52/chenn.htm
0: Number of Iraqi hijackers involved in 9-11. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organizers_of_the_September_11,_2001_attacks#List_of_the_hijackers
15: Number of 9-11 hijackers from Saudi Arabia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organizers_of_the_September_11,_2001_attacks#List_of_the_hijackers
1.13.08: The date George W. Bush went to Saudi Arabia to “reaffirm strong ties with Saudi Arabia.” http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN1335797520080113
28%: George W. Bush’s approval rating as of 3.19.08 http://www.pollingreport.com/BushJob.htm
Approx. 2,400,000: Number of websites found by asking Google “vets against the Iraq war” http://www.google.com/search?q=vets+against+iraq+war&sourceid=ie7&rls=com.microsoft:en-US&ie=utf8&oe=utf8
3%: Percentage of Christians or other non-Muslims residing in Iraq as of 07.06 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq
18: Years old a man or woman can vote in Iraq https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/iz.html#People
5 ½: Number of years John McCain spent as a North Vietnamese POW. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCain
12.20.83:Date that Donald Rumsfeld shakes the hand of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and Tariq Aziz. http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB82/nd
$35.12: Price for a barrel of crude oil on the New York Mercantile Exchange on 2.8.03 – approximately 2 months before the invasion of Iraq by the United States. http://zfacts.com/p/377.html
$109.09: Price for a barrel of crude oil on the New York Mercantile Exchange on 04.07.08 http://www.bloomberg.com/energy/
100: Number of years John McCain said the U.S. could be maintaining a presence in Iraq http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/the_us_iraq_and_100_years.php
4: Number of drawings Colin Powell used to show Iraq’s “Mobile Production Vehicles for Biological Agents” (No actual photos, drawings only)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/02/powell-slides/20.html
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/02/powell-slides/21.html
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/02/powell-slides/22.html
418: Number of days George W. Bush has been on vacation as of 08.09.07 http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/mason/5042364.html
01.08.04:Date the 400-strong U.S. Military Team stopped looking and withdrew from Iraq after finding no WMDs in Iraq. http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=123&art_id=qw1073545741947U262&set_id=1
1,030,000: Number of websites listed when “Bush bashing sites” is googled http://www.google.com/search?q=Bush+bashing+sites&sourceid=ie7&rls=com.microsoft:en-US&ie=utf8&oe=utf8
01.20.09: Date George W. Bush leaves office http://www.backwardsbush.com/
You left off two numbers:
Number of Iraqi civilians killed caused by opposition forces
Estimated number of Iraqi dead over past five years if Saddam Hussein was not overthrown
A telling profile of Blake Miller–the Marlboro Marine–appeared in Rolling Stone last week.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/19733160/the_troubled_homecoming_of_the_marlboro_marine
The video segments from the LA times were just as powerful.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/marlboromarine/
Excellent reporting and portraylal of our soldiers suffering from PTSD.
1,000,000: estimated number of Iraqis killed by Saddam Hussein from 1979 until he was overthrown.
http://www.iraqfoundation.org/news/2003/ajan/27_saddam.html
Now see how Iraqi deaths attributed to the American invasion have surpassed this number by 200,000 in far less years.
A few facts on the numbers….many deaths of american serviceman are attributed to such things as auto accidents and other accidents.
And 1,200,000 deaths caused by americans….i dont think so.
I’d like to see the sources of your “facts” RichieC, and also the numbers.
The 1,200,000 figure was taken directly from the article above:
1,194,935: Iraqi deaths due to U.S Invasion http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html
Many of the Iraqi civilians die from crazy things like typhoid , syphilis , cholera ,there axle breaks and then the person standing next to them explodes it is like a exciting game of Oregon Trail!
The estimate…
Heres a site that will explain the comment I made to you.
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/iraq/forces/casualties/
Heres an example of what you will find frequently.
“Sgt. Leonard W. Adams 42 Headquarters Company, 105th Military Police Battalion, 18th Military Police Brigade, North Carolina Army National Guard Mooresville, North Carolina Died of non-combat related injuries at Camp Bucca, Iraq, on January 24, 2005 ”
“1st Lt. Michael R. Adams 24 A Troop, 1st Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment Seattle, Washington Killed when the barrel of the .50 caliber weapon mounted on his tank struck him in Al Asad, Iraq, on March 16, 2004 ”
“Pfc. Michael S. Adams 20 Company C, 1st Battalion, 35th Armor Regiment, 1st Armored Division Spartanburg, South Carolina Died of injuries sustained in a fire during a small-arms fire exercise. The fire began when a bullet ricocheted and ignited a fire in the building in Baghdad, Iraq on August 21, 2003”
Heres one reguarding Iraqi on Iraqi violance.
http://www.iraqbodycount.org/database/incidents/page1
I find the numbers game distastfull…but heres a few facts for ya!
hey, don’t you have some apps to write or something mr. ballzonya?
Iraq
There have been 4,333 coalition deaths — 4,025 Americans, two Australians, 176 Britons, 13 Bulgarians, one Czech, seven Danes, two Dutch, two Estonians, one Fijian, one Hungarian, 33 Italians, one Kazakh, one Korean, three Latvian, 22 Poles, three Romanians, five Salvadoran, four Slovaks, 11 Spaniards, two Thai and 18 Ukrainians — in the war in Iraq as of April 9, 2008, according to a CNN count. (Graphical breakdown of casualties). The list below is the names of the soldiers, Marines, airmen, sailors and Coast Guardsmen whose deaths have been reported by their country’s governments. The list also includes seven employees of the U.S. Defense Department. At least 29,676 U.S. troops have been wounded in action, according to the Pentagon. View casualties in the war in Afghanistan and examine U.S. war casualties dating back to the Revolutionary War
from the previous site mentioned by cnn
The site for iraqbodycount isn’t just for Iraqi on Iraqi violence. It is meant to show the numbers of civilian deaths from what they call military and paramilitary violence–which has skyrocketed since 2003 without question.
Also, let’s not lessen the gravity of this issue by saying that “many” American deaths in Iraq are accidents. Of that original figure, 3200+ deaths occurred in combat (roughly 80%). Your accidents fall (along with other causes of death) into the remaining 20%.
Let’s say anyway that you are right–that the 1.2 million Iraqis kill themselves and the Americans are all having car accidents. Still we’ve got more human beings dead in the last 5 years following our invasion of Iraq than died in 20 years under a cruel dictator.
ok…so you agree we are not digging mass graves for iraquis!…
Keep it in the complicated perspective it is in. When you dont you loose ears.
A little secret……
Soldiers hate war the most.
RichieC
the counting of dead enemy’ body’s. stopped after the vietnam war. it was some military’ genuis’s idea.to measure the war’s success by counting, the dead enemy soldiers.
Killer team’s ( kt’s) were sent out at night. ( ambush’s) to deter the enemy’s ability to resupply etc. the problem being,mama -san & papa-san were not alway’s told it’s a free fire zone. after dark.
innocent civlians were being killed. rather than bring a whole body back to head quarters. just remove and ear or finger. left or right ear there choice.
as for saddam hussian. our goverment at the time thought it was for our best interest to support his position at the time. I believe it was in the 1950’s & no doubt were fully aware of his atrocity’s.
here again we have a 2 front war. ( afgan) & Iraq. here again the ammo dump’s we are so eagerly looking fore in Afgan. were being supplied by none other than the u.s. to support the war against the russians.
of which the russian’s. said to us you won’t win this war either ( afgan)
what we have done again is intered in to war with no clear cut mean’s to get out winning the heart’s& mind’s of the people is a joke. pressing the issue’s of each country’s will to defend them self’s as quickly as possible.
if it be our country’s need to go to war. then I will support our young men & women in harm’s way. there’s no draft. it’s free will they chose to join
sem-per fi & gary owen
Mark, really intriguing piece. The numbers game adds brevity and shines a light on some major ineptitudes in our government.
What I don’t like about numbers is it sanitizes things in a sense. Or rather it desensitizes us.
I remember speaking to a Mom who lost her daughter in Fallston and it was simply gut-wrenching. Brought me to tears. I’ll never forget it.
If I lost a child in a war, numbers would make no nevermind to me.
I have a question though, how can Bush have taken 418 days of vacation since 8/9/07? Is that from both terms then?
Those Wikipedia references make me squeamish.
Molly…here here!
The results of the words chicken fish in google !
Results 1 – 10 of about 3,130,000 for chicken fish. (0.16 seconds)
The results of “bush bashing sites” in google (with quotation marks meaning words in the site in this order)
Results 1 – 10 of about 192 for “bush bashing sites”. (0.27 seconds)
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1T4GWYE_enUS261US262&q=%22bush+bashing+sites%22&btnG=Search
The results for bush bashing sites (without quototation marks meaning these three words are in the site in any order)
Results 1 – 10 of about 156,000 for bush bashing sites. (0.05 seconds)
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1T4GWYE_enUS261US262&q=bush+bashing+sites&btnG=Search
So much for numbers !
Artical about Kurds marking anniversery of gas attack. (poisen gas is considered a WMD).
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/16/world/middleeast/16cnd-baghdad.html?ex=1363320000&en=4d46cf3cb3de7ce0&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
Kurds Mark 20th Anniversary of Deadly Gas Attack
By ERICA GOODE
Published: March 16, 2008
BAGHDAD — Thousands of Kurds gathered Sunday in the town of Halabja, in the northern uplands of Iraq, to mark a grim anniversary: the day 20 years ago when clouds of poison gas swept through the town, killing as many as 5,000 people.
The chemical bombings, part of Saddam Hussein’s campaign against the Kurds, began in the early evening of March 16, 1988, and continued through the night……
Results 1 – 10 of about 3,540 for “push israel into the sea”. (0.30 seconds)
Results 1 – 10 of about 732,000 for great satan. (0.17 seconds)
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1T4GWYE_enUS261US262&q=great+satan
Great Satan – Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThe Great Satan (Persian ????? ???? Shaytan Bozorg, Arabic ??????? ?????? Al-Shaytan Al-Akbar) is a derogatory epithet for the United States of America and …
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Satan – 31k – Cached – Similar pages
This stuff is real !
Molly it is a very well written articale.& yes you’ are right about the number’s game if we put name’s & face’s to the number’s.
we have to realize there human being’s.we can not continue to be the police force of the world. for country’s that have no desire’ to fight for there own freedom.
we may train them & arm them but watch how fast the country’ collapses.
to stand in public, and protest is certainly a right of and american. but one must remember, how many american live’s were given thru the years’ to give them that right.
to protest in public. is feeding the enemy’s desire to continue there onslaught
our returning combat vet’s will be faceing’ many new reajustment problem’s liveing in a night mare world. a world of guilt. where kill or get killed was law.
why was I allowed to live? and so many others died. our enemy’s were brave men.willing to die for there cause. they had family’s & friend’s children.
in vietnam close combat was rare. ( hand to hand ) but did occur. up close & personal. with a k-bar knife. those face’s are never forgotten. simple thing’s trigger the memory. a sound a smell a word spoken.
these young men & women need our support & understanding.
sem-per fi & Gary owen
Vet
A reminder worth stating. Thank you.
I would like to know how many of the iraqi deaths resualted from substandard health care, as i have seen the level of care they recieve and its wonder that number isnt double. Basic first responder skills severly lack and it makes me wonder if that number would be greatly reduced with just some education. It would bother me if that big number of iraqi deaths is blamed on or generalized witht he actions of the US when a large chunk of it is simply they dont know how to take care of themselves or provide basic life saving skills. Which they dont. And its only going to be the education they recieve from the US that helps them to start saving their own lives.
Iraq HAD an excellent health care and medical infrastructure before the war. Many Drs have fled, basic medical care needs ( water/electricity) are in short supply. and medical supplies and facilities have been decimated. The ” saviors” of the Iraqi people have created this health care fiasco.
Did that “excellent health care and medical infrastructure before the war” do a lot of good to folks such as the Iraqi Olympic athletes who were forced by agents of their goverment to walk through sewage pools after being beaten and having their skin lacerated? Did the hospitals provide excellent service for their infections – infections caused by this wonderful government who provided so well for it’s citizens? Did the hospitals provide counseling for the numerous young female citizens of Saddam’s Iraq who were regularly raped by goverment officials, or by male citizens who were never prosecuted? Need I go on with more examples?
Shame on us for destroying Utopia!
While it’s true that many doctors and medical personnel have either fled Iraq or were killed, even Michael Moore wouldn’t say they had excellent healthcare before the war. The were ranked #103 in the world in 2000 by the WHO. This is the same list that Moore based a lot of “Sicko” on. To put it in perspective using countries some of us (other than Lylekelvin) have been to, Iraq was 42 spots lower than Mexico, 50 spots lower than Jamaica, and 66 spots lower than the US.
Was that ranking before or after our oh so successful economic embargo? And where would it be ranked now after 5 years of US “help”, 100s of thousands of deaths and trillions of dollars spent ? It was still head and shoulders above what is going on there now. At least they had an infrastructure and Doctors. At least women were allowed to have jobs and an education. I don’t doubt that there were atrocities- but there is absolutely no evidence of improvement over what existed prior to the last 5 years. How many burned ,maimed, infected people now as compared to the Olympic team? How many dead women and children as compared to rape victims? The numbers speak for themselves. But hey- believe what you will- and do enlist- or encourage your children to enlist -so that we can continue “improving” Iraq- as well as our own country.
Curious
it is true’ we are doing our best to win the heart’s and mind’s of the people with limited medical care.
most of course fear retaliation,for accepting the help. it does’nt take much to see the mistake’s being made in Iraq are very similar. there mosque’s, are off limit’s to american fire power. border country’s off limits. to protect enemy supply line’s.
tank’s are more usefull. one heat round or sabot costing about $1,500.00 american dollars per round.
and m-16 round in vietnam was costing the taxpayer’ 16 cent’s around of which we were accused of wasteing.
somebody’ for got to tell the higher up’s the enemy was very well intrenched & well hidden. and with out tank support, accept in the battle of HUE. it would appear our troop’s are doing the best they can with the leader ship they have.
I will support them.
semper-fi & gary owen
I will support them. And I have. I know people who have served and are serving. I pray for them (and the rest) regularly. However, I wouldn’t encourage anyone I know to enlist. I just wouldn’t.
Ok all the doctors in the world wont mean anything if the first responders and general populist cant so much as put a band aide on. IF ambulance crews don’t even know when their patient is dead how are they going to help the living. If the only immediate life saving measures that an IP, who has been shot, receives is a gauze bandage and thrown into an ambulance, and they don’t do anything for him on the way to the hospital, what’s the hospital going to do with a dead IP. The US does take care of IPs and IA that are injured with the advanced medical equipment we have over here but again if they cant get them to it alive it wont matter. And as i stated above if the mast majority of Iraqi citizens have no knowledge of how to provide basic care, then it doesn’t matter how good their health care was is or will be. And since it is a third world country, has been for decades or longer i don’t see how it was better off before. Usually that just means it didn’t receive the press coverage it is receiving now. And how much further would the country be if they weren’t blowing everyone up that was trying to fix it. Because it was far from paradise even before we came here.
Let’s talk about crime.
We should be concentrating on cracking down on corporate rape and returning control of corporations to those who own them (i.e. shareholders) ….does this make us socialist? I think not.
Come on man, get off the wagon.
Required??? This article is about Iraq…we should be talking about it. It’s fallen off the radar for most people- the American way.
I didnt see one number mentioned in the article.
The number of 35,000 dollar checks given to homicide bomber familys before and after mission accomplished.
Does anyone know?
whats a homicide bomber, and which families the bomber or the victims of the bomber, in any event never heard of any such thing
The numbers are an interesting way to loook at the past events but we are not living in the past.
The future needs to be adressed.
What actions make sense for the people of Iraq?
What action make sense for the future of our country?
What actions make sense for the future handling of terroists who wish to destroy both the prople of Iraq and the US?
lyle…read beyond the local weekly fish wrappers !
Related to some of the discussion here, some powerful photography and so-so story at the NYT:
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/04/24/world/0425-SADR_index.html