The High Cost of War

April 12, 2008 by admin Leave a Comment

  • The war in Iraq has cost Britain £5 billion. 176 British soldiers have been killed there.

  • The war in Iraq costs the US £5 billion every month. They have lost 4,000 soldiers.

  • More than 655,000 Iraqis have been killed since the occupation of Iraq, according to a report published in The Lancet last October.

  • 1.14m Iraqis have fled their homes since the invasion.

  • The predicted cost to the taxpayer of British troops being in Iraq this year is £1.65bn

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Iraq and Afghanistan: The people Vs. the Politicians

March 19, 2008 by admin Leave a Comment

Six out of ten Britons don’t back the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The research was carried out for the Army.

Five years after the invasion of Iraq, only 41 per cent of the public suport operations in the two countries. More than half of those surveyed say that whilst we are still proud of our soldiers as individuals they do not like what our establishment is asking them to do.

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