Casualties of the Iraq occupation

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http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/spotlight/iraqschallenge/2011/06/20116286491536746.html
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The 2003 US invasion of Iraq was sold to the American public as a war to defend the nation and free the Iraqi people.

Then-US vice-president Dick Cheney said the military effort in Iraq would take "weeks rather than months".

Paul Wolfowitz, the US deputy secretary of defence at the time, said US soldiers would be greeted as liberators and that Iraqi oil money would pay for the reconstruction of the country.

But the costs have steadily risen, in financial terms and in lives - both military and civilian.