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The Stunning Iraq Index
David Morris, a former Marine who has been embedded in Iraq as a reporter, compiled the following Iraq Index for the June 9th issue of The Nation. The numbers speak for themselves:
Percentage of Iraqis displaced by war: 20
American cost of the Iraq occupation per second (as of March 2008): $4,563.18
Total number of Coalition personnel in Iraq at the height of the "surge" (including all contractors and civilian support personnel): 343,100
Total number of actual U.S. combat troops in Iraq at the height of the "surge" (excluding support personnel): 38,000
Number of police officers in New York City: 37,000
Number of embedded journalists during March 2003 invasion: 775
Number of embedded journalists during March 2008: 23
Number of U.S. killed and wounded, Hue City, Vietnam, 1968: 147; 857
Number of U.S. killed and wounded, Fallujah, Iraq, 2004: 104; 1,110
Number of Iraq veterans diagnosed with PTSD: 300,000
Number of troops stop-lossed: 58,300
Number of troops deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001: 1,668,000
Number of troops deployed after being declared medically unfit: 43,000
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