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The Iraq War Ledger: A Tabulation of the Human, Financial, and Strategic Costs

Human costs

  • Total deaths: Between 110,663 and 119,380
  • Coalition deaths: 4,712
  • U.S. deaths: 4,394
  • U.S. wounded: 31,768
  • U.S. deaths as a percentage of coalition deaths: 93.25 percent
  • Iraqi Security Force deaths: At least 9,451
  • Total coalition and ISF deaths: At least 14,163
  • Iraqi civilian deaths: Between 96,037 and 104,7542
  • Non-Iraqi contractor deaths: At least 463
  • Internally displaced persons: 2.6 million
  • Refugees: 1.9 million


Financial costs

  • Cost of Operation Iraqi Freedom: $748.2 billion
  • Projected total cost of veterans’ health care and disability: $422 billion to $717 billion


Strategic costs

  • Empowered Iran in Iraq and region
  • Created terrorist training ground.
  • Loss of moral authority.
  • Diverted resources and attention from Afghanistan.
  • Stifled democracy reform.
  • Rising sectarianism in region


So...

Did we win?
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