My Blog 28 August 2014

A few facts you might not know about the invasion of Iraq:

# Lost and unaccounted – $9 billion cash and $550 million spare parts

# Lost, reported stolen – $6.6 billion earmarked for reconstruction

# Mismanaged and wasted – $10 billion

# Unsupported overcharges by the Halliburton company – $1.4 billion

# Missing cost of vehicles, arms and ancilliary equipment – $1 billion

# Amount paid to KBR (ex-Halliburton co) from US military – $20 billion

# Annual air conditioning cost (including Afghanistan) – $20 billion

# US troops dead – 4,487. Injured – 32,223 (20% serious brain or spinal)

# Iraqi civilian deaths – from 500,000 to over 1 million

# Journalists killed – at least 150 (14 by US forces)

# Total of Iraqi doctors before the invasion – 34,000

# Iraqi doctors murdered – 2,000

# Iraqi doctors who fled the country – 12,000

# Data from about.com (including The Brookings Institute) up to Jan 2012

 

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