A MUST read - Iraq by the numbers - pre-war vs now

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/05/AR2007090501104.html?tid=informbox

August 2007: 164,000

January 2007: 137,000

CASUALTIES:

_Confirmed U.S. military deaths as of Sept. 4, 2007: 3,739

_Confirmed U.S. military wounded as of Sept. 4, 2007: 27,662

_U.S. military deaths for August 2007: 83

_Deaths of civilian employees of U.S. government contractors as of June 30, 2007: 1,001.

_Iraqi civilian deaths: Estimated at more than 66,000, with one controversial study last year contending there were as many as 655,000. According to Associated Press figures, there were at least 1,975 Iraqi deaths in August 2007.

_Assassinated Iraqi academics: 331.

_Journalists killed on assignment: 112.

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