Iraq by the Numbers (Seattle Weekly)

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Iraq by the Numbers

An update after three years of the mission.

By Rick Anderson

 

122: Number of obituaries Seattle Weekly has published about Washington

service members killed in Iraq since war was launched March 20, 2003.

 

73: Children left behind by Washington service members killed in Iraq.

 

49: Widows, and one widower, left behind.

 

2,300: American service members killed since war began.

 

2,172: Killed since George Bush's May 1, 2003, " Mission Accomplished "

speech.

 

6,500: Troops wounded in action in Iraq.

 

20,000: Troops evacuated with medical/psychological conditions.

 

18,000: Armored vests recalled because they weren't bulletproof.

 

$100,000: Per-minute cost of war in Iraq.

 

$493 billion: Amount Pentagon says it needs to operate this fiscal year.

 

$583 billion: What it will actually cost.

 

$8: Daily amount wounded troops are personally charged for hospital meals.

 

25: Estimated number of service members who committed suicide in Iraq.

 

35: Percentage of Iraq veterans accessing mental health services after

returning home.

 

11: Homicides and suicides in Western Washington since 2003 involving

active servicemen or veterans of Iraq.

 

6: Wives slain, along with one girlfriend and a child.

 

0: Weapons of mass destruction found in Iraq.

 

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