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No End In Sight Response Zach DeBiase. Accounted For U.S. Spending About $900 Billion of US tax payers funds spent or approved for sending through November.

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1 No End In Sight Response Zach DeBiase

2 Accounted For U.S. Spending About $900 Billion of US tax payers funds spent or approved for sending through November 2010 U.S. 2009 Monthly Spending in Iraq - $7.3 billion U.S. 2008 Monthly Spending in Iraq - $12 billion U.S. Spending per Second - $5,000 in 2008.

3 Unaccounted For.. $9 billion of US taxpayers' money Also 190,000 guns including 110,000 AK-47 rifles. $549.7 million in spare parts shipped in 2004 to US contractors.

4 Missing/ Wasted $1 billion in tractor trailers, tank recovery vehicles, machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades and other equipment and services provided to the Iraqi security forces. $10 billion wasted.

5 Cost To Deploy $390,000 to deploy one United States soilder. Total 47,000 U.S. troops as of Nov 30, 2010. That totals to $18,330,000,000.

6 Casualties 4,439 US troops 98% male 91% non-officers 82% active duty 11% National Guard 74% Caucasian 9% African-American 11% Latino 19% killed by non-hostile causes 54% of US casualties were under 25 years old 72% were from the US Army

7 Wounded 32,033 wounded soilders 20% of which are serious brain or spinal injuries. These statistics exclude psychological injuries.

8 Other Stats.. 30% of US troops develop serious mental health problems within 3 to 4 months of returning home. Total 316, with 179 from the UK were non troop casualties.

9 Insurgency Daily Insurgent Attacks, Feb 2004 - 14 Daily Insurgent Attacks, July 2005 - 70 Daily Insurgent Attacks, May 2007 - 163 Estimated Insurgency Strength, Nov 2003 - 15,000 Estimated Insurgency Strength, Oct 2006 - 20,000 - 30,000 Estimated Insurgency Strength, June 2007 - 70,000

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11 Bibliography White, Deborah. "Iraq War Facts, Statistics at January 30, 2011 - Iraq War Casualties, Spending." Liberal & Progressive Politics & Perspectives. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Mar. 2011..


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