The Iraq War was so messy and costly that the best attempt to assess the sheer damage is through numbers. We drew from sources including various news reports, The Brookings Institute 's Iraq Index, and the Costs of War Project to money and blood spent on the war. 189,000: Direct war deaths, which doesn't include the hundreds of thousands more that died due to war-related hardships.
By The Numbers: The Staggering Cost Of The Iraq War
Michael Kelley and Geoffrey Ingersoll, Business Insider
Wed, 03/20/2013 - 11:08am
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