The High Cost of War

The war in Iraq has cost Britain £5 billion. 176 British soldiers have been killed there.

The war in Iraq costs the US £5 billion every month. They have lost 4,000 soldiers.

More than 655,000 Iraqis have been killed since the occupation of Iraq, according to a report published in The Lancet last October.

1.14m Iraqis have fled their homes since the invasion.

The predicted cost to the taxpayer of British troops being in Iraq this year is £1.65bn