No News Is Good News - Research

 

 

Statistics

• Iraqi civilian deaths since 2003, 122,000.
• Violent deaths between 2004-2009, 109,000.
  - 66,081 Civilians.
  - 23,984 “enemy”.
  - 15,196 Iraqi security forces.
  - 3,771 Coalition Troops.
• Total deaths WW I.
  - 16 million death.
  - 9.7 million military.
  - 6.8 million civilian.
• Total deaths WW II.
  - 50-70 Million.
  - 22-25 Million military.
  - 40-52 Million Civilians.
  - 5,753,100 Holocaust.
• Total deaths Vietnam.
  - 266,000 Military Republic of Vietnam.
  - 2,000,000 Civilians (both sides).
  - 1,100,000 Military North Vietnamese/Viet Cong.
  - 58,236 US Military.
• Total deaths Korea
  - 36,940 US Military.
  - 520,000 North Korean Military.
  - 415,000 Civilians.
  
  
   
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  Facts
  
  
  Spent & Approved War-Spending - About $900 billion
  Journalists killed - 143, 96 by murder and 47 by acts of war
  Journalists killed by US Forces - 14
  Iraqis Displaced Inside Iraq, by Iraq War, as of May 2007 – 2,255,000
  Lost & Unaccounted for in Iraq - $9 billion of US taxpayers' money and $549.7 million in spare parts shipped in 2004 to US contractors. Also, per ABC News, 190,000 guns, including 110,000 AK-47 rifles.
  U.S. continued to sell chemical weapons to Iraq until Kuwait invasion in 1989.
  During the 1991 Gulf War, Iraq did not use chemical or non-conventional weapons, but the U.S. did. It dropped tons of depleted uranium weapons all over Iraq.
  The war in Iraq began on March 20, 2003 at approximately 02:30 UTC. Later that day, President George W. Bush announced that he had ordered the coalition to launch an "attack of opportunity" against specified targets in Iraq.