From Sarah Earl we have this list of the Iraqi war by the numbers:
365 — Days since Congress authorized a unilateral war
324 — American Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines dead in Iraq
1,767 –American military casualties in Iraq
164 — Days since President Bush declared the war was ‘over’
184 — American Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines dead since war was “over”
2.38 — Tons of biological agents the Administration claimed Iraq had
6,868 — Gallons of anthrax the Administration asserted Iraq was ready to use
317 — Gallons of botulinum toxin the Administration reported Iraq was hiding
581 — Gallons of aflatoxin the Administration stated Iraq possessed
45 — Minutes the Administration claimed it would take Iraq to launch a WMD attack
Over 300—Alleged Iraqi weapons sites inspected to dater
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0—Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction foundr
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100,000s—Number of Troops needed in Iraq according to Gen. Eric Shinseki, Army Chief of Staffr
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“Way off the Mark”—Rumsfeld?s and Wolfowitz?s response to Shinseki?s estimate r
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150,000—American military personnel in the Middle East supporting warr
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29,000—Army and Air National Guard forces in Iraqr
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50,000—Reservists in Iraqr
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30,000—Number of US troops the Pentagon planned to have in Iraq late 2003r
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?Something under $50 Billion?—Administration’s initial projected cost of warr
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$1.7 Billion—What Natsios promised would be total US share of reconstructionr
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$50 – $100 Billion—Estimate of Iraqi oil revenue in 2-3 years by Wolfowitz in Marchr
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$2 Billion—Estimate of oil revenues this year by Rumsfeld in Septemberr
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$79 Billion—Cost of Iraq war before supplemental requestr
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$87 Billion—Request for additional funds now under considerationr
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$800,000—Estimated cost of President Bush?s USS Lincoln Speechr
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$221 Billion—Projected total cost of occupying Iraqr
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$222 Billion—Total annual cost of the National Cancer Institute, FBI, pollution control, foreign aid, NASA, agricultural support payments, food stamps, non-defense homeland security, health research and training, highways, financial aid to college students, and federal support for grade-school education and high-school educationr
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2.5—Hours it took after 9/11 for Rumsfeld to consider attacking Iraqr
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102—Days to change the whitehouse.gov headline announcing end of ?Combat Operations? to end of ?Major Combat Operations.?r
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16—Pages of documents from 2001 Cheney energy task force mapping Iraqi oil fieldsr
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$200 Million—Value of no-bid troop-housing contract awarded to Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown and Rootr
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$1.7 Billion—Total current value of Halliburton “reconstruction” contractsr
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$2 Million—Halliburton?s 2002 fine for fraud in Calif. military base constructionr
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$20 Million—Vice President Cheney?s Halliburton early-retirement packager
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16 –Words proven false from the President?s State of the Union Addressr
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