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Costs of the U.S.-Led War in Iraq Since 2003. March 19-20, 2023 marks 20 years since United States forces invaded Iraq to oust dictator Saddam Hussein, under the false claim that his regime was manufacturing weapons of mass destruction.
The Costs of War Project is a team of 35 scholars, legal experts, human rights practitioners, and physicians, which began its work in 2011. We use research and a public website to facilitate debate about the costs of the post-9/11 wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.
This map is based on country data assembled from government websites, reputable news sources, and expert input. This information was crosschecked with the most recent State Department publications. The map only covers counterterror activity conducted between 2015 and October 2017.
The Costs of War Project is a nonpartisan research project based at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University that seeks to document the direct and indirect human and financial costs of U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and related counterterrorism efforts.
At 9:30 pm Eastern Time on March 19, 2003, US missiles struck Iraq in an attempted decapitation strike against Saddam Hussein. Forty-five minutes later, Bush addressed the nation from the Oval Office and explained that the United States was at war with Iraq.
5 Σεπ 2010 · Writing in these pages in early 2008, we put the total cost to the United States of the Iraq war at $3 trillion. This price tag dwarfed previous estimates, including the Bush administration's 2003 projections of a $50 billion to $60 billion war.
22 Μαρ 2013 · The Iraq War cost the lives of 4,480 U.S. soldiers and at least 3,400 U.S. contractors. (U.S. allies lost 318 soldiers.) In addition, 31,928 American soldiers were wounded in action, many suffering serious disabilities that will impose a continuing burden on their families and long-term costs for health care and support.
