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Dead U. S. troops: 4,000

Wounded soldiers: 29,000 U.S. soldiers wounded
(45 percent of them so seriously they haven't returned to duty)

Iraqi civilians killed: 89,867

Number of internally displaced Iraqis: 2.4 million

Number of Iraqi refugees living in adjacent countries: 2.5 million

Number of Iraqi refugees that are children: 2 million

Cost of war per day: $411 million

Cost of war per second: $5,000

Cost of war per Iraqi: $4,988

Cost of war per U.S. resident: $121,000

Cost of a barrel of crude oil at the start of the war: $25

Cost of barrel of crude oil today: $101.84

Number of U.S. Senators who voted for the war: 77

Number of U.S. Senators who voted against it: 23

Number of U.S. Presidential Candidates who favored war: 2

Number of U.S. Presidential Candidates who were against the war: 1

Image Credit: Liza Sabater with statistics taken from icasualties.org

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