Iraq by the numbers!

[ProSense]

237: Number of Bush administration lies (through Jan. 22, 2004) recorded in Iraq on the Record database.

15,000: Number of U.S. troops involved in Operation Forward Together, launched in August 2006.

15,000 to 30,000: Number or troops Bush claims needed to stabilize Iraq.

400,000: Number of troops predicted (in 1999) would be needed for an invasion of Iraq.

192,000, 147,000 U.S. Troop levels for March 2003 invasion and in September 2006

$1.2 billion: Cost to increase the Army by 10,000 soldiers.

$2 billion: Weekly cost of Iraq war.

$4 billion: Annual cost of corruption in Iraq.

360,241: Number of DoD weapons with unregistered serial numbers in Iraq.

231,534: Estimated number of Iraqis displaced Feb - Oct 2006.

22: Number of U.S. soldiers who committed suicide in Iraq in 2005.

959: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=3021544&mesg_id=3021544">Average number of attacks in Iraq on U.S.-led forces, local security personnel and civilians.

25, 10 and 15: Number of Iraqi police killed each day; U.S. budgeted for 10 killed and 15 wounded.

714: Number of Iraqis killed in sectarian violence in a one-week period in November.

150,000: Official report of Iraqis killed by insurgents.

650,000: Estimated number of Iraqis cilivians killed in the war.

2006: Bloodiest year for U.S. troops, 812 killed between Dec. 15, 2005 and Dec. 22, 2006.

2,964: U.S. troops fatalities reported as of Dec. 22.

46,880: Number of troops wounded in Iraq as of Dec. 22.

1,000: Number of soldiers who signed petition to calling for withdrawal from Iraq.

[NoAmericanTaliban]

1. What are you doing - confusing them with facts!

Good job in putting this list together. What is the total cost of Iraq so far & just think of what other good we could have done with that money - health care for all, higher education for all just to start with.

[wisteria]

2. Wonderful, wonderful listing, I'm rec. n/t

[ProSense]

3. Underestimated!

$352 billion: Cost of war as of this post. Bush seeks more funds, underestimated cost of war.