Well, it's been 5 years.

MSNBC just turned my stomach with the following headline:" Total cost of Iraq war hinges on oil question
Some estimates exceed $2 trillion, including impact on energy prices" LINK to MSNBC article

Our troops deserve better.

We deserve better.

Anyway, Nobel prize winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz has calculated the 'cost' to be 3 trillion dollars. Imagine what we could have done as a country with that money.

But no. Anyway, just to clarify a little here- sure this war has apparently cost 3 trillion dollars. But here's a little more of the 'total cost' of the war.

3,987 dead US armed forces.

Between 100,000 - 150,000 Iraqis (including civilians) have been killed.

Coalition Forces:
As of January 10, 2008 there were 307 total deaths. Breakdown: Australia 2. Bulgaria 13. Czech Republic 1. Denmark 7. El Salvador 5. Estonia 2. Georgia 1. Hungary 1. Italy 33. Kazakhstan 1. Latvia 3. Netherlands 2. Poland 23. Romania 3. Slovakia 4. South Korea 1. Spain 11. Thailand 2. Ukraine 18. United Kingdom 174.

Civilian Contractors
At least 1,016 deaths between March 2003 and January 2008. 236 of those are from the USA.

Among other confirmed contractors killed are: 47 British, 34 Turkish, 23 South African, 20 Fijian, 19 Nepali, 14 Filipino, 7 Pakistani, 6 Bulgarian, 6 Jordanian, 5 Australian, 5 Canadian, 5 Egyptian, 4 Lebanese, 4 New Zealander, 4 Russian, 4 South Korean, 3 Croatian, 3 French, 3 German, 3 Macedonian, 3 Polish, 2 Bosnian, 2 Finnish, 2 Hungarian, 2 Indian, 1 Brazilian, 1 Colombian, 1 Japanese, 1 Czech, 1 Danish, 1 Dutch, 1 Guam, 1 Honduran, 1 Indonesian, 1 Italian, 1 Kuwaiti, 1 Portuguese, 1 Romanian, 1 Somali, 1 Swedish, 1 Syrian, 1 Ukrainian. The rest are presumed to be Iraqi.

Wounded US forces
As of January 12, 2007, 500 U.S. troops have undergone amputations due to the Iraq War. Toes and fingers aren't counted.

A 2006 study by Walter Reed Medical Center which serves more critically injured soldiers than most VA hospitals, concluded that 62 percent of patients there had suffered a brain injury.

In March 2003, U.S. military personnel were wounded in action at a rate averaging about 350 per month. As of September 2007, this rate has increased to about 675 per month.

LINK to wikipedia, who cites every source.