U.S. fatalities in Iraq:

2026

U.S. soldiers wounded in combat:

about 15,220

Soldiers injured too seriously to return to duty:

about 7100

Percentage of National Guard or Army Reserve fatalities:

30

Iraqi civilians killed since March 2003, according to the British group, The Iraq Body Count:

26,797-30,163

Iraqi casualties per day in 2004, on average, according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies:

40

Iraqi casualties per day in 2005, on average:

50

Dollars the U.S. spends in Iraq each second:

$11,000

Casualty figures as of October 31, 2005; compiled by Ken Picard

This article appears in Nov 2-8, 2005.

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Staff Writer Ken Picard is a senior staff writer at Seven Days. A Long Island, N.Y., native who moved to Vermont from Missoula, Mont., he was hired in 2002 as Seven Days’ first staff writer, to help create a news department. Ken has since won numerous...