Mini Harper's index on Iraq:
- Monthly average of US casualties (wounded and killed) during the invastion: 482
- Monthly average of US casualties during the occupation: 415
- Monthly average of US casualties since the transition to Iraqi rule: 747
- The number of attacks on the Iraqi oil industry in April 2004: 4
- The number of attacks on the Iraqi oil industry in June 2004: 12
- The number of attacks on the Iraqi oil industry in August 2004: 21
- Oil prices (five year contract) 1991-2001: ~$20
- Oil prices (five year contract) 2004: $35
- Estimate of guerrilla insurgents in Iraq as of November 2003: 5,000
- Estimate of guerrilla insurgents in Iraq as of September 2004: 20,000
- Unofficial estimates of guerrilla insurgents in Iraq as of today: 40,000 – 50,000
- Average yearly cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan: ~$82 billion (what was spent so far and the $87 billion requested for 2005 for warfighting and reconstruction).
- Average yearly cost of the Vietnam war (today's dollars): $61.8 billion