Iraq War

By: Parker Lobel

American Causalities

• According to antiwar.com there have been 4,427 Americans killed and 32,900 Americans wounded.

Iraqi Causalities

• According to Iraqbodycount.org there have been between 98,585-107,594 civilians killed since the start of the war.

Cost of War

• www.costofwar.com says that the total cost of the war since 2001 has cost $1.1 trillion this number does not include the expected medical care cost for war veterans.

• The projected total cost of veteran’s health care is $422-$717 billion dollars.

Current Iraq Gov’t

• Iraq currently has a Parliamentary Democracy.• The government has an executive branch

which consists of a Presidency Council• Has a Judicial Branch with a Supreme Court• It also has a Legislative Branch called the

Council of Representatives and it has 325 members.

Iraqi Military

• As of July 2009, the Iraqi Army had 17 divisions, containing 56 brigades or 185 combat battalions.

Abu Gharib

• Revealed in the Taguba Report US soldiers abused and tortured Iraqi detainees in the Abu Gharib prison.

• It included rape, beating and taking photos of the naked inmates.

Works Cited• Works Cited• "COSTOFWAR.COM - The Cost of War." COSTOFWAR.COM - The Cost of

War. N.p., n.d. Web. 1 Nov. 2010. <http://www.costofwar.com/>.• Griffis, Margaret. "Casualties in Iraq - Antiwar.com." Antiwar.com. N.p.,

n.d. Web. 1 Nov. 2010. <http://antiwar.com/casualties/>.• "Iraq ." U.S. Department of State. Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, n.d.

Web. 3 Nov. 2010. <http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/6804.htm>.• "Iraq Body Count." Iraq Body Count. N.p., n.d. Web. 1 Nov. 2010.

<http://www.iraqbodycount.org/>.• "The Iraq War Ledger." Center for American Progress. Center for American

Progress, n.d. Web. 2 Nov. 2010. <http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2010/05/iraq_war_ledger.html>.

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