Wars in Iraq and Syria cost half a million lives, nearly $3T: report

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Wars in Iraq and Syria cost half a million lives, nearly $3T: report
By Meghann Myers
Mar 17, 12:31 PM
2003 Iraq invasion
Marines from Task Force Tarawa roll through the Iraqi countryside in armored assault vehicles on March 22, 2003, on their way to an objective in Iraq. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

The U.S. military is about to surpass 20 years since invading Iraq, a war that has cost more than 550,000 lives, and nearly $1.8 trillion, according to a report released Wednesday.

“The Bush administration was convinced and assured the American people and the world that the war would have few casualties of all kinds — civilian and military — and would lead to quick victory,” said Neta C. Crawford, the project’s co-director of the Costs of War project, in a statement on the ongoing research effort from the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University.

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