{"id":59,"date":"2004-06-24T22:20:31","date_gmt":"2004-06-25T04:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/?p=59"},"modified":"2005-03-11T11:48:15","modified_gmt":"2005-03-11T16:48:15","slug":"paying-the-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2004\/06\/paying-the-price\/","title":{"rendered":"Paying the Price"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paying the Price: The Mounting Costs of the Iraq War<\/a><\/p>\n

Here are just some of the compelling statistics – click on the title above for access to the full report from the Institute for Policy Studies and Foreign Policy in Focus.<\/p>\n

Total number of coalition military deaths between the start of war and June 16, 2004: 952 (836 U.S.)
Of those 952, the number killed after President George W. Bush declared “an end to major combat operations” on May 1, 2003: 693<\/p>\n

Number of U.S. troops wounded in combat since the war began: 5,134 (Number ill or injured in “non-combat” incidents estimated to be over 11,000)<\/p>\n

Number of U.S. troops wounded in combat since President George W. Bush declared “an end to major combat operations” on May 1, 2003: 4,593<\/p>\n

Number of civilian contractors, missionaries, and civilian workers killed: 50-90<\/p>\n

Number of international media workers killed: 30<\/p>\n

Iraqi civilians killed: 9,436 to 11,317<\/p>\n

Iraqi civilians injured: 40,000 (est.)<\/p>\n

Iraqi soldiers and insurgents killed prior to May 1, 2003: 4,895 to 6,370 <\/p>\n

The bill so far: $126.1 billion <\/p>\n

Additional amount to cover operations through 2004: $25 billion <\/p>\n

What $151 billion could have paid for in the U.S.:<\/p>\n

Housing vouchers: 23 million<\/p>\n

Health care for uninsured Americans: 27 mil.<\/p>\n

Salaries for elementary school teachers: 3 mil.<\/p>\n

New fire engines: 678,200<\/p>\n

Head Start slots: 20 million<\/p>\n

Estimated long-term cost of war to every U.S. household: $3,415 <\/p>\n

Amount contractor Halliburton is alleged to have charged for meals never served to troops and for cost overruns on fuel deliveries: $221 million <\/p>\n

Kickbacks received by Halliburton employees from subcontractors: $6 million<\/p>\n

Percentage of Americans who now feel that “the situation in Iraq was not worth going to war over.”: 54<\/p>\n

Percentage of Iraqis who said they would feel safer if U.S. and other foreign troops left the country immediately: 55<\/p>\n

Percentage of U.S. soldiers in Iraq reporting low morale: 52<\/p>\n

Percentage of soldiers who said they would not re-enlist: 50<\/p>\n

Percentage of wounded unable to return to duty: 64<\/p>\n

Number of soldiers whose tours of duty have been extended by the Army: 20,000<\/p>\n

Percentage of reserve troops who earn lower salaries while on deployment: 30-40<\/p>\n

Fraction of National Guard troops among U.S. force now in Iraq: 1\/3<\/p>\n

Percentage of U.S. police departments missing officers due to Iraq deployments: 44<\/p>\n

Effect on al Qaeda of the Iraq war, according to International Institute for Strategic Studies: “Accelerated recruitment”<\/p>\n

Estimated number of al Qaeda terrorists as of May 2004: 18,000 with 1,000 active in Iraq<\/p>\n

Percentage of Iraqis expressing “no confidence” in U.S. civilian authorities or coalition forces: 80<\/p>\n

Iraq’s oil production in 2002: 2.04 mil. barrels\/day<\/p>\n

Iraq’s oil production in 2003: 1.33 mil. barrels\/day<\/p>\n

Price of a gallon of gasoline in the U.S. in May 2004: more than $2 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Number of U.S. troops wounded in combat since the war began: 5,134 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}