America continues to pay an enormous price in lives, financial resources, and respect in the world, for the war in Iraq.
• Nearly 4,000 American service men and women have been lost.
• Nearly 20,000 servicemen and woman have been wounded.
• Since the war began, we’ve lost an average of two soldiers each day.
• More than 40,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed. As a percentage of population, that is the equivalent of 345,000 Americans.
• More than $320 billion has already been spent, and a recent estimate by Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz suggests the total cost will exceed $1 trillion.
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