* An estimated 4 million Iraqis, out of 27 million, have been displaced from their homes, that is, made homeless. ..
* It is controversial how many Iraqis died as a result of the 2003 invasion and its aftermath. But it seems to me that a million extra dead, beyond what you would have expected from a year 2000 baseline, is entirely plausible....
* Baghdad has been turned from a mixed city, about half of its population Shiite and the other half Sunni in 2003, into a Shiite city where the Sunni population may be as little as ten to fifteen percent....
* In the Iraqi elections, Shiite fundamentalist parties closely allied with Iran came to power...
* Arab-Kurdish violence is spiking in the north, endangering the Obama withdrawal plan...
* Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi women have been widowed by the war and its effects, leaving most without a means of support....
* $32 billion were wasted on Iraq reconstruction, and most of it cannot even be traced....(etc...etc...etc.)
In Informed Comment here, and in the WaPo, here
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