Please send useful data links to me: skip@louisiana.edu and I'll add prior to the report on the Iraq War on Sept. 11. (SurgeGate)
This is primarily a list of hot links DUers can use to put the "surge" in perspective by giving valuable data on the war, it costs in lives, blood, and treasure for both the Americans as well as the Iraqis and contractors. PLEASE SEND MORE LINKS AND I WILL ADD THEM and periodically re-post this document in expand form. It should be easy to use.
Prelminary important data from
http://icasualties.org/oif / (see below).
Deaths: | US/UK | Iraqi
9/06 | 75 | 3539
10/06 | 108 | 1539
11/06 | 76 | 1864
12/06 | 113 | 1752
1/07 | 86 | 1802
2/07 | 84 | 3014
3/07 | 84 | 2977
4/07 | 116 | 1821
5/07 | 129 | 1980
6/07 | 108 | 1345
7/07 | 88 | 1690
8/07 | 87 | 1674
(Iraqi deaths are civilians and soldiers.)
NOTE: Whereas American and UK deaths in July and August declined by nearly 21 from the average of the previous two months (128 & 108), Iraqi deaths increased by almost 20 during the same month over the average of the previous two months (1,345 & 1,690). That makes the overall death rate pretty level from May to the present.
LIST OF LINKS TO STATISTICSCAUSUALITY STATS:
Iraq Coalition Casualty Count provided the list at the top of this page and is a great first place to go for reliable data
http://icasualties.org/oif /
It has a number of tables charting such things as numbers of deaths (by time and country) medical evacuations (by service), wounded (by week), and so forth. A Great site for collecting initial stats. It also contains links to fatalities and injuries by state, services, etc., and one to contractor causalities.
Military Deaths in the Conquest of Iraqhttp://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/USfatalities.htmlProvides two fine graphs showing number of US deaths since March 2003. One is a bar graph giving a month-by-month number of killed. The top one shows the total number of deaths which notes several relevant historical occurrences.
The second shows that the surge’s success in terms of numbers is effective only if you focus on a few months:
US Causalities in Iraqhttp://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/iraq_casualties.htmProvides a table for a month-by-month list of the numbers of US dead and wounded and two bar graphs below it which the some information in visual form. (Herein you can note that some of the summer months have had the fewest causalities. It's probably has hard to kill in 114 degree heat as it is to do anything else.)
OVERALL STATS:
From the Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings'
The Iraq Indexhttp://www.brookings.edu/iraqindexattempts to provide "a statistical compilation of economic, public opinion, and security data. . . . updated information on various criteria, including crime, telephone and water service, troop fatalities, unemployment, Iraqi security forces, oil production, and coalition troop strength." It has hundreds of graphs in a month-by-month statistical assement of the war in pdf. format which provide very nuanced (and valuable for someone willing to dig) including such things as numbers of Iraqis and foreign nationals kidnapped, reporters killed, deaths from multiple-causality bombs, estimated strength of insurgency, etc. Extremely valuable!
Asia Times on Line's article ("Dispaches from America: Escalation in Iraq by the Numbers") by Tom Engelhardt
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IH15Ak03.htmlProvides a list of numbers of troops, attacks, contractors, companies, prisoners, electrical blackouts as well as such things as projected costs, temperatures, availability and cost of water, Iraqi government stats and amount of oil, etc. In short, although is not presented in tables or graphs, it provides data to help determine the total context of the war. A very valuable collection of information that will aid to see the full picture.
STATS ON IRAQI RESOURCES:
The Oxfam Report on Resources Iraqi resources
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/resources/policy/conflict_disasters/bp105_iraq.htmlprovides a list of list of percentages related to the current conditions for Iraqi citizens concentrating on the availability of food, water, sanatation, shelter and so forth as well as their employment figures.
Are there stats on refugees???
Thanks to all who have provided links. Please send more. I'll annotate (as above) and add. Think of the value of the following types of information:
# of Iraqi refugees leaving country
# of Iraqi refugees internally displaced
# of IED attacks on American/Coalition Forces# of Iraqis kidnapped and tortured, found dumped