The Count
10/30/2008
As of Tuesday, day 2,049 of the war in Iraq…
4,191 members of the American military, including 11 Pentagon civilians, have been killed so far in Iraq, according to the US Department of Defense. 30,757 have been wounded.
88,656 is the absolute minimum number of civilian deaths due to violence in Iraq since the war began, according to iraqbodycount.net. 145 were killed last week, 7 of them by US forces.
8 civilians were killed Sunday in Syria, according to that country’s government, during a US-led helicopter raid over the Iraq border that US officials have refused to comment on, reported Voice of America.
$566.3 billion has already been spent on the war, $274.8 million of it paid by Pasadena taxpayers, according to the National Priorities Project’s costofwar.com.
$12,773.44 is the cost of the war for an individual who has had an average annual taxable income of $50,000 over the past 5 years, calculates costofwar.com, which also offers custom computations for your own income.
— Compiled by Joe Piasecki
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