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The cost of the U.S. war in Iraq: 802 billion dollars .. And 4487 soldiers and 600 thousand people dead and 1.5 million displaced
Author: the future of Iraq
12/19/2011 0:00
Baghdad, Iraq's future
Cost of the Iraq war for eight years, the second war of the country's post-war Iraq - Iran billions of dollars and thousands of lives, Taking leave Washington, a final stage of its military campaign, the facts figures for that war must remember, each number has a relationship, albeit No. There is no dispute about it raised more than the number that indicates the number of dead Iraqis and Americans.
Troop
Varied the number of American forces operating on the ground in Iraq, between 100 and 150 thousand soldiers, if we exclude the period of the rise of a wave of insurgency in that country in 2007. And ruled that the U.S. president's plan at the time, George W. Bush, which were designed to improve security in the country, especially in the capital Baghdad, sending 30 thousand additional troops to Iraq.
But Democratic Senator, then, and now President, Barack Obama has made the issue of withdrawal from Iraq, the president pledged in his campaign for the presidential elections in 2008, and so the number of troops declined steadily since his arrival to the White House in January of 2009.
In the nineteenth of August 2010, left the last U.S. fighter formation of Iraq, leaving behind 50 thousand participants from the military component of the transition that was taking place in the country.
The British forces in Iraq, the number reached during the period of the invasion to 46 thousand soldiers, to take the number then decreasing gradually year after year, the number climbed in May of 2009 to 4100 military, when Britain withdrew formally its troops from that country. But British Royal Navy continued to train Iraqi naval forces until May 2011.
The British presence in Iraq is now just part of the mission of NATO (NATO) training, which announced its withdrawal, and contributed to Britain that the mission of 44 military component, including the unit located in the Iraqi Military Academy.
Losses
According to the latest figures of the Ministry of Defense, "Pentagon," the United States lost an item in the 4487 Iraq since the invasion of that country in what has become known as "Operation Iraqi Freedom" on the nineteenth of March of 2003.
On 31 August of 2010, with the withdrawal of the last batch of U.S. combat forces from the race, the number of casualties on U.S. forces militarily, 4421, died 3492 of them during their participation in hostilities, while the number of people injured by operations 32,000 people.
Since then, killing 66 military, he spent 38 of them during their participation in hostilities through their participation in what has become known as "Operation New Dawn." The number of injured in their work fighting since the first of the month of September 2010, has reached 305 people. Britain has lost 179 of its military personnel, men and women in Iraq, he spent them 136 through their participation in hostilities, while the killing of 139 elements of the forces of other countries participating International Alliance, as the location of any Kajoltez. and notes that have been documented reasonably well for the victims who fell in the ranks of other countries participating in the coalition, but it is difficult to monitor the number of killed from among the civilians and the Iraqi military, due to the absence of official figures that can be relied upon . There there is a vicious row on all novels and estimates on the number of casualties in Iraq. Has consistently "body count of Iraqi deaths" to collect, audit and scrutiny of the numbers of dead civilians, using this Lasuba depends on the province of the information contained in many media reports and other numbers from the likes of records morgues.
According to the body in question, the number of dead Iraqis who have died in Iraq until June of 2010 ranges between 97,461 and 106,348 people. It was the month that took place when troops entered Washington to Iraq, the bloodiest period, if we take into account the number of civilian deaths , it says "body count of Iraqi deaths," The 3977 Iraqi citizen a normal died in that month, and 3437 were killed in April of that year. The charity says that the difference between the highest and lowest figures reported on the number of dead in Iraq due contradictions contained in the reports on the number of those killed as a result of certain events, whether those victims are civilians or military personnel.
This has led some of the reports and surveys to a wide range of guesses and estimates on the number of those killed in Iraq, as "a survey the health of the Iraqi family," which was supported by the United Nations, the number of those who died in Iraq due to violence in the period between the months of March in 2003, and June of 2006 by 150 thousand people. The journal "The Lancet" medical, has been published in the 2006 study that estimated the number of Iraqis who were killed by the war to 654,965 people, of whom 601,027 died as a result of the violence in the country. and included both "a survey of family health Iraq, "study" Lancet "Statistics of the dead who fell in the ranks of civilian and military personnel and combatants. And killed an unknown number of civilian contractors in Iraq have died, as published site "any Kajoltez" what he calls a list of partial to those victims, including the names of the 467 contractors. With regard to the displaced, having started the sectarian violence to escalate in Iraq since early 2005. However, the bombing of a Shi'ite Imams in Samarra, in February of 2006 caused a wave of sectarian attacks escalate more and more. Farqm many Iraqi families to flee their homes and move to other areas in the country, or simply fled abroad. For its part, estimates the World Organization for Migration, which monitors the number of displaced families, to about 1.6 million Iraqis have been deported from their homes in the country in the period between 2006 and 2010, and this number is 5.5 percent of the population of the country. He returned about 400 thousand of the IDPs to their homes until the mid-2010, with most of them returned to the capital Baghdad and the provinces of Diyala and Nineveh, Anbar, according to that organization.
Cost of the war
Estimated the Research Unit in the U.S. Congress, a body of highly respected and research beyond the parties, that the United States has spent the end of fiscal 2011 amounted to $ 802 billion U.S. dollars to finance the war, have already been allocated, of which $ 747.6 billion. However, both the U.S. economy Joseph Stiglitz, winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2001, and Linda J. projections are senior lecturer in public policy, finance and budgeting at the University of Harvard, believed to be the real cost of the Iraq war has reached three trillion billion dollars, in the if Taking into account the additional effects of the war on the budget and the economy of the Americans. was funded by Britain's share of the cost of the war of the Fund reservists Treasury, and those amounts are the additional funds allocated to support the regular budget of the Ministry of Defence. According to figures from the headquarters of the British government in June of 2010 , the cost of British involvement in the Iraq war amounted to 14.32 billion dollars, most of which went to fund military operations, and spent the amount of $ 861 million on aid. In January of 2010, the Commission of Inquiry for the British in the war on Iraq shows the summary of how to finance the war on Iraq.
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Author: the future of Iraq
12/19/2011 0:00
Baghdad, Iraq's future
Cost of the Iraq war for eight years, the second war of the country's post-war Iraq - Iran billions of dollars and thousands of lives, Taking leave Washington, a final stage of its military campaign, the facts figures for that war must remember, each number has a relationship, albeit No. There is no dispute about it raised more than the number that indicates the number of dead Iraqis and Americans.
Troop
Varied the number of American forces operating on the ground in Iraq, between 100 and 150 thousand soldiers, if we exclude the period of the rise of a wave of insurgency in that country in 2007. And ruled that the U.S. president's plan at the time, George W. Bush, which were designed to improve security in the country, especially in the capital Baghdad, sending 30 thousand additional troops to Iraq.
But Democratic Senator, then, and now President, Barack Obama has made the issue of withdrawal from Iraq, the president pledged in his campaign for the presidential elections in 2008, and so the number of troops declined steadily since his arrival to the White House in January of 2009.
In the nineteenth of August 2010, left the last U.S. fighter formation of Iraq, leaving behind 50 thousand participants from the military component of the transition that was taking place in the country.
The British forces in Iraq, the number reached during the period of the invasion to 46 thousand soldiers, to take the number then decreasing gradually year after year, the number climbed in May of 2009 to 4100 military, when Britain withdrew formally its troops from that country. But British Royal Navy continued to train Iraqi naval forces until May 2011.
The British presence in Iraq is now just part of the mission of NATO (NATO) training, which announced its withdrawal, and contributed to Britain that the mission of 44 military component, including the unit located in the Iraqi Military Academy.
Losses
According to the latest figures of the Ministry of Defense, "Pentagon," the United States lost an item in the 4487 Iraq since the invasion of that country in what has become known as "Operation Iraqi Freedom" on the nineteenth of March of 2003.
On 31 August of 2010, with the withdrawal of the last batch of U.S. combat forces from the race, the number of casualties on U.S. forces militarily, 4421, died 3492 of them during their participation in hostilities, while the number of people injured by operations 32,000 people.
Since then, killing 66 military, he spent 38 of them during their participation in hostilities through their participation in what has become known as "Operation New Dawn." The number of injured in their work fighting since the first of the month of September 2010, has reached 305 people. Britain has lost 179 of its military personnel, men and women in Iraq, he spent them 136 through their participation in hostilities, while the killing of 139 elements of the forces of other countries participating International Alliance, as the location of any Kajoltez. and notes that have been documented reasonably well for the victims who fell in the ranks of other countries participating in the coalition, but it is difficult to monitor the number of killed from among the civilians and the Iraqi military, due to the absence of official figures that can be relied upon . There there is a vicious row on all novels and estimates on the number of casualties in Iraq. Has consistently "body count of Iraqi deaths" to collect, audit and scrutiny of the numbers of dead civilians, using this Lasuba depends on the province of the information contained in many media reports and other numbers from the likes of records morgues.
According to the body in question, the number of dead Iraqis who have died in Iraq until June of 2010 ranges between 97,461 and 106,348 people. It was the month that took place when troops entered Washington to Iraq, the bloodiest period, if we take into account the number of civilian deaths , it says "body count of Iraqi deaths," The 3977 Iraqi citizen a normal died in that month, and 3437 were killed in April of that year. The charity says that the difference between the highest and lowest figures reported on the number of dead in Iraq due contradictions contained in the reports on the number of those killed as a result of certain events, whether those victims are civilians or military personnel.
This has led some of the reports and surveys to a wide range of guesses and estimates on the number of those killed in Iraq, as "a survey the health of the Iraqi family," which was supported by the United Nations, the number of those who died in Iraq due to violence in the period between the months of March in 2003, and June of 2006 by 150 thousand people. The journal "The Lancet" medical, has been published in the 2006 study that estimated the number of Iraqis who were killed by the war to 654,965 people, of whom 601,027 died as a result of the violence in the country. and included both "a survey of family health Iraq, "study" Lancet "Statistics of the dead who fell in the ranks of civilian and military personnel and combatants. And killed an unknown number of civilian contractors in Iraq have died, as published site "any Kajoltez" what he calls a list of partial to those victims, including the names of the 467 contractors. With regard to the displaced, having started the sectarian violence to escalate in Iraq since early 2005. However, the bombing of a Shi'ite Imams in Samarra, in February of 2006 caused a wave of sectarian attacks escalate more and more. Farqm many Iraqi families to flee their homes and move to other areas in the country, or simply fled abroad. For its part, estimates the World Organization for Migration, which monitors the number of displaced families, to about 1.6 million Iraqis have been deported from their homes in the country in the period between 2006 and 2010, and this number is 5.5 percent of the population of the country. He returned about 400 thousand of the IDPs to their homes until the mid-2010, with most of them returned to the capital Baghdad and the provinces of Diyala and Nineveh, Anbar, according to that organization.
Cost of the war
Estimated the Research Unit in the U.S. Congress, a body of highly respected and research beyond the parties, that the United States has spent the end of fiscal 2011 amounted to $ 802 billion U.S. dollars to finance the war, have already been allocated, of which $ 747.6 billion. However, both the U.S. economy Joseph Stiglitz, winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2001, and Linda J. projections are senior lecturer in public policy, finance and budgeting at the University of Harvard, believed to be the real cost of the Iraq war has reached three trillion billion dollars, in the if Taking into account the additional effects of the war on the budget and the economy of the Americans. was funded by Britain's share of the cost of the war of the Fund reservists Treasury, and those amounts are the additional funds allocated to support the regular budget of the Ministry of Defence. According to figures from the headquarters of the British government in June of 2010 , the cost of British involvement in the Iraq war amounted to 14.32 billion dollars, most of which went to fund military operations, and spent the amount of $ 861 million on aid. In January of 2010, the Commission of Inquiry for the British in the war on Iraq shows the summary of how to finance the war on Iraq.
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