January 16, 2011
Graph for the Day for January 16, 2011
"When it comes to the war in Iraq, the time for promises and assurances, for waiting and for patience, is over." Senator Barack Obama, January 2007.
"I believe myself that the secretary of state, secretary of defense and - you have to make your own decisions as to what the president knows - (know) this war is lost and the surge is not accomplishing anything as indicated by the extreme violence in Iraq yesterday." Senator Harry Reid, April 2007.
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Source: Brookings Iraq Index. Senators Reid and Obama indicators added by author, as sourced here and here.
Hoven's Index for January 16, 2011
Iraqi civilian fatalities in 2006: 34,500
In 2007: 23,600
In 2009: 3,000
In 2010: 2,405
Estimated number of mass graves under Saddam (pre-invasion): 270
Estimated number of dead in those mass graves: 400,000
Estimated fatalities in Iran-Iraq War (1980-88): 1,000,000
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