http://www.time.com/time/magazine/ar...629375,00.html

However a government may try to hide them, there are ways to measure the
costs of war, and last week people could take their pick. You could see, for
the first time, the coffins of dead soldiers, wrapped tight like a gift in
the flag for which they fought. You could mourn the one whose name was
familiar, the football star who took a million-dollar pay cut to defend his
country after 9/11. You could listen, for the first time, to the Pentagon
leaders admitting that they would need both more troops and more money to
get the job done. A year ago, the war planners figured that 200 armored
humvees would be enough for the invasion and occupation of Iraq; now they
want 20 times that many. The U.S. death toll in April 2003, the month
Baghdad fell, was 37; the number killed in hostilities in April 2004 climbed
to 107 last week, a reminder that winning a war can be deadlier than
fighting it in the first place.

And some numbers

Cracks in the Coalition


Spain's defection from Iraq, along with escalating violence, has led other
allies to rethink their commitment to the coalition

U.S. -- 135,000

BRITAIN -- 11,000

34 OTHER NATIONS -- 16,648

Italy -- 2,700
Poland -- 2,400
Ukraine -- 1,700
Spain -- 1,300 -- Troops leaving Iraq
Netherlands -- 1,100
Australia -- 850
South Korea -- 700
Romania -- 700
Japan -- 556
Denmark -- 496
Bulgaria -- 470
Thailand -- 460
Honduras -- 370 -- Troops leaving Iraq
El Salvador -- 360
Hungary -- 300
Dominican Rep. -- 300 -- Troops leaving Iraq
Nicaragua -- 230
Singapore -- 200
Mongolia -- 180
Azerbaijan -- 151
Norway -- 150
Portugal -- 128
Latvia -- 121
Lithuania -- 105
Slovakia -- 105
Philippines -- 96
Czech Rep. -- 80
Albania -- 70
Georgia -- 70
New Zealand -- 60
Estonia -- 55
Kazakhstan -- 29
Macedonia -- 28
Moldova -- 24

Source: GlobalSecurity.org



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