Cruickshank - DP.: OUGD101

Tuesday, 2 November 2010

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.