Day 1,134 of the Iraq War…
05/04/2006
As of Tuesday, day 1,134 of the Iraq War…
- 2,394 American soldiers have been reported killed in Iraq.
- 17,762 have been reported wounded in action.
- 34,511 is the minimum number of civilian casualties in Iraq.
- $257 billion in taxpayer funds have been spent on the war.
- $32 billion of that burden has been shouldered by California taxpayers.
- $124 million is Pasadena taxpayers’ share.
Since the last Count...
- 13 more American soliders have been reported killed.
- 112 more have been reported wounded in action.
- 200 more Iraqi civilians have been reported killed.
- 100,000 Iraqi families are thought to have fled their homes, according to a statement made Friday by Adel Abdul Mahdi, one of Iraq’s two vice presidents. According to The New York Times, another Iraqi official estimated last week that only 13,750 families, or about 70,000 to 80,000 people, had been displaced. If Mahdi’s estimate is true, however, it would mean that more than 500,000 Iraqis have been displaced by the continuing violence.
- $243 million was committed to building 150 Iraqi health care clinics in March 2004, but according to a report released Saturday by the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, only 20 of the clinics will be completed without more funding.
QUOTE: “It is the government's responsibility to oversee the contract and, given that the government was aware of problems with the project for quite some time, we believe the effective government contract oversight was not provided,” reads the report, according to the Washington Post.
Meanwhile, in Afghanistan...
- 224 American soldiers have been reported killed.
- 717 have been reported wounded in action.
According to a report released Tuesday by Foreign Policy magazine and the Fund for Peace, Afghanistan and Iraq are among the world’s 10 most vulnerable states. According to the Washington Post, Iraq was ranked No. 4 in the report’s “failed state index,” while Afghanistan was ranked No. 10.
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