American military losses in Iraq
- Killed: 4 425 (as of May 29, 2012)
- Wounded: 32 223
- October 18, 2005, USA Today article reports: "More than one in four U.S. troops have come home from the Iraq war with health problems that require medical or mental health treatment, according to The Pentagon's first detailed screening of service members leaving a war zone."
- March 4, 2009, USA Today reported that according to a Pentagon estimate, as many as 360,000 U.S. veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts may have suffered traumatic brain injuries (TBI), including 45,000 to 90,000 veterans with persistent symptoms requiring specialized care.
- BBC News reported April 17, 2009, "According to several studies of the US military funded by the Department of Veteran Affairs, 30% of military women are raped while serving (14% of them gang raped), 71% are sexually assaulted, and 90% are sexually harassed."
- March 12, 2007, Time ..... one third of the 103,788 veterans returning from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars seen at U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs facilities between September 30, 2001, and September 30, 2005, were diagnosed with mental illness or a psycho-social disorder, such as homelessness and marital problems, including domestic violence
- January 2008, the U.S. Army reported that the rate of suicide among soldiers in 2007 was the highest since the Army started counting in 1980.
Time magazine reported on June 5, 2008:
Iraqi Casualties
- Iraq Family Health Survey 151,000 violent deaths (March 2003 to June 2006)
- Lancet survey 601,027 violent deaths out of 654,965 excess deaths (March 2003 to June 2006)
- Opinion Research Business survey 1,033,000 deaths as a result of the conflict (March 2003 to August 2007)
- PLOS Medicine Survey approximately 500,000 deaths in Iraq as direct or indirect result of the war (March 2003 to June, 2011)
- as of November 4, 2006, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees estimated that 1.8 million Iraqis had been displaced to neighboring countries, and 1.6 million were displaced internally, with nearly 100,000 Iraqis fleeing to Syria and Jordan each month.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War