Blog Post Image: ‘Costs of War’ Project: Iraq War: 190,000 lives, $2.2 trillion

Reckoning the costs of the Iraq War More than 70 percent of deaths from direct war violence have been civilians. That does not include indirect deaths from disease or injury suffered in conditions degraded by war. Image Credit: Kevin Holden for U.S. Army

A Soldier from Company D, 1st Combined Arms Battalion, 63rd Armor Regiment, Multi-National Division – Baghdad, clears landscape of overgrown bushes to deny criminal elements an area to hide weapon caches during a combined operation with the 17th Iraqi Army Division in Yusifiyah, Jan. 21. The patrol was in support of the upcoming Provincial Elections in which the MND-B Soldiers and their IA partners are setting the conditions for a safe and secure election.

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