The Cost of the War in Iraq

$1,300,000,000,000.00 dollars by the end of next year (http://www.usnews.com/blogs/capital-commerce/2007/11/14/is-the-iraq-war-costlier-than-doing-nothing.html)

1,220,580 estimated Iraqi deaths since the invasion in 2003 (http://www.opinion.co.uk/Newsroom_details.aspx?NewsId=78) Another more conservative estimate is 655,000 (http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/10/11/iraq.deaths/)

2,000,000 displaced Iraqi people (http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/1DD49F17-737A-40E6-B1C9-42128BE2E963.htm)

3,864 American soldiers dead and at least 28,451 wounded (http://www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2007/11/16/american_deaths/)

“…one of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror,” G.W. Bush, 9/6/2006 (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/09/06/five_years/main1980074.shtml)