3,216 American soldiers dead and 24,042 wounded in Iraq


As of Mar. 17, 3,216 U.S. soldiers have died in Iraq since the war began and at least 24,042 have been wounded. 10,685 of the wounded were hurt seriously enough that they could not be returned to duty within 72 hours. Over 59,082 Iraqi civilians have been killed according to the Iraq Body Count website.



(The above charts of U.S. military fatalities are based on the Iraq Coalition Casualty Count web site, which gets its numbers from public data provided by the U.S. government. The numbers of wounded are from the Department of Defense web site, as of Mar. 13 at 10 a.m.)

Additional "coalition" deaths include: 134 Britain, 33 Italy, 18 Ukraine, 19 Poland, 13 Bulgaria, 11 Spain, 6 Denmark, 5 El Salvador, 4 Slovakia, 3 Latvia, 2 Thailand, 2 Estonia, 2 Netherlands, 2 Australia, 2 Romania, 1 Hungary, and 1 Kazakhstan.

The Iraq Body Count web site reports that between 59,082 and 64,916 Iraqi civilians have been killed as a result of the military intervention in Iraq.

According to the Cost of War site, the war in Iraq has currently cost the U.S. in excess of $409,108,000,000.

See also: Iran: Consequences of a War by the independent think tank Oxford Research Group.

Posted: Saturday - March 17, 2007 at 03:09 PM          

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