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.

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 regional and national awards for his features, profiles and investigative stories and had his work picked up by international news outlets. He was the first journalist to shine a light on the thousands of undocumented workers in Vermont’s dairy...