War In Iraq

Chris Alescio

Cost of War

• Cost of War in Iraq-

$820,615,550,206

• Cost of War in Afghanistan-$454,355,737,898

• Total Cost of Wars Since 2001-$1,274,971,288,104

Money could’ve gone..

• To providing basic home weatherization for about 1.6 million existing homes, reducing energy consumption in these homes by 30%

• To adding 30,000 elementary and secondary schoolteachers and built 400 schools in which they could teach

Casualties

• Official number of Americans wounded 33,169

• Estimated to be over 100,000

Troops Coming Home

• More than 4,400 members of the military have been killed, and more than 32,000 have been wounded

• pullout of the remaining U.S. forces, nearly 40,000 in number

• Staying in Iraq, where bombings and other violence occur, 150-200 U.S. military troops will stay as part of the U.S. Embassy’s security force, defense attache's office and office of security cooperation

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