$5 Trillion

Wars in Iraq, Afghanistan Have Cost the US

I am the Cannon king, behold!

I perish on a throne of gold

With forest far and turret high

Renowned and rajah-rich am I

My father was and his before

With wealth we owe to war on war

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/wars-iraq-afghanistan-cost-us-184600381.html

The combined total of coalition and contractor casualties in the conflict is now over ten times that of the 1990–1991 Gulf War. In the Gulf War, coalition forces suffered around 378 deaths, and among the Iraqi military, tens of thousands were killed, along with thousands of civilians. Learn more…Opens in new tab

Estimates of the death toll from the Iraq War range from 150,000 to 1,033,000 people, including more than 100,000 civilians. The majority of deaths occurred during the initial insurgency and civil conflicts. The 2013–2017 War in Iraq, which is considered a result of the invasion and occupation, caused at least 155,000 deaths. 

Here are some estimates of the death toll from the Iraq War: 

• Iraq Body Count project (IBC)

  An independent British-American group that records reported Iraqi civilian deaths since the 2003 invasion. As of June 2020, the IBC project had recorded a range of at least 185,194–208,167 violent civilian deaths. 

• ORB survey

  In January 2008, ORB published an update that revised their death estimate to 1,033,000, with a range of 946,000–1,120,000. However, some peer-reviewed literature has criticized this estimate as exaggerated and ill-founded. 

• Watson Institute

  Estimates that between 280,771–315,190 Iraqi civilians have been killed by direct violence since the U.S. invasion.

During the War in Afghanistan, according to the Costs of War Project the war killed 176,000 people in Afghanistan: 46,319 civilians, 69,095 military and police and at least 52,893 opposition fighters. However, the death toll is possibly higher due to unaccounted deaths by "disease, loss of access to food, water, infrastructure, and/or other indirect consequences of the war."^[1] According to the Uppsala Conflict Data Program, the conflict killed 212,191 people.^[2] The Cost of War project estimated in 2015 that the number who have died through indirect causes related to the war may be as high as 360,000 additional people based on a ratio of indirect to direct deaths in contemporary conflicts.

Chicken feed. Spare change. Country does not need the money. Human beings do not need to thrive. Stocks go up when there’s money made supplying tools of mass murder, well paid Union help has employment. War is the health of the State. All hail the great God Mars. Mars is with Uncle Sam and his atomic powered steam train. Santa Claus smiles delivering the weapons to the customer.