Resources:

The Iraq Quagmire:  A report by the Institute for Policy Studies.  The most comprehensive accounting of the mounting costs and consequences of the Iraq War on the United States, Iraq, and the world. Among its major findings are stark figures that quantify the continuing costs since the Iraqi elections.

Bring Our Guard Home Now:  Information from the women’s peace group Code Pink related to use of the National Guard in Iraq.

What’s Wrong With Cutting and Running? By Lt. General William Odom, U.S. Army (Ret), Aug. 3, 2005,  Nieman Watchdog.

Withdraw from Iraq:  By George McGovern and Jim McGovern, June 6, 2005, Boston Globe.

Facts Contradict President’s Words in Veteran’s Day Speech:  Press release written by Tom Andrews (former Congressman and national director of Win Without War), Nov. 11, 2005.

Talking Points on Downing Street Minutes:  By David Swanson, July 1, 2005.


Montgomery County, Maryland
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Out of Iraq NOW

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Cost of the War

Iraq war will cost more than $2 trillion.  Click here.  For the cost to Maryland residents, as of January, 2007, click here.
Cost of the War in Iraq
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Deaths Due to the War

As of March 13, casualties resulting from the war are as follows:

         3,987                U.S. Military Deaths
       29,314                U.S. Military Wounded
            308        Britain and Other Allied Countries
         1,001                Contractors (incomplete list)

Iraqi Civilian Fatalities:  No official counts are made of civilians.  A study in a prestigious journal estimated over a year ago that over 655,000 civilians have died as a direct result of the war:  click here.  Subsequent research suggest that as of October, 2007 about 1.2 million Iraqis have been killed as a result of the war and occupation: click here. "Iraq Body Count" is an ongoing list of individuals who have been identified by name in at least two English-language newspapers in Iraq as civilian war deaths; this is widely seen as a gross underestimate.  That count, as of March 13:  between 81,964 and 89,448.  There are no estimates of civilian wounded.  For more information, click here.

Several good sources on the Web provide daily, updated estimates of the Iraqi casualties:

Iraq Body Count
Military Deaths and Injuries
Brookings Institution Iraq Index



Recent Articles

Need Iraq Suffer if We Pull Out?
A good analysis and proposal for how to minimize the violence

Iraq's Endless False Hopes
The neocon's new "turning point"

The Great Iraq Swindle
How Bush allowed an army of for-profit contractors to invade the U.S. treasury

An Iraqi Parliamentarian Considers the Surge
How the "surge" makes things worse in Iraq

Spy Agencies Say Iraq War Worsens Terror Threat
Someone finally admits the obvious

US Soldiers Wounded in Iraq Reaches Highest Monthly Level

Iraq Report Card
The Center for American Progress evaluates the situation in Iraq

No Permanent Bases:  Passed Both Houses of Congress, Removed in Conference
Is democracy being destroyed behind closed doors?

U.S. Military Hides Many More Hadithas
How many more innocent civilians have been killed?

Pentagon Report Said to Find Killing of Iraqi Civilians Deliberate
U.S. soldiers go on a killing spree.

In the Silence, War Continues
What does it mean to say that the Iraq war is illegal?

Debate in Congress Over Iraq War Grows Louder
Congress may be catching up with the rest of the country on the war.

We're Staying
Construction of huge, expensive bases suggests that the U.S. has no intention of leaving Iraq.

US Bases in Iraq: A Costly Legacy
A report on the size and extent of bases.

If America Left Iraq:  The Case for Cutting and Running  
By Nir Rosen, The Atlantic Monthly, December, 2005.  This article, by a journalist who has spent months in Iraq, presents in question and answer format the major issues concerning whether the U.S. should stay or leave Iraq and what would happen if the U.S. left immediately.