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The non-partisan Institute for Policy Studies recently reported the total cost of the Iraq War to date at $151 billion. Military operations in Iraq run an estimated $4 billion to $5 billion per month. More than 2,000 U.S. soldiers have been killed in the war and more than 15,000 have been wounded. Approximately 30,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed in the war. Heavy deployment of National Guard troops in Iraq has diluted security resources at home. Forty-four percent of the nation’s police forces have lost personnel through deployment to Iraq; 75,000 firefighters were lost to deployment in the first few months of the war alone. A recent NBC/WSJ poll found that 45 percent of Americans would like to see the Gulf Coast reconstruction paid by reducing spending in Iraq.
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