US soldiers waiting to leave Iraq from Camp Adder on the outskirts of the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah, yesterday. From the tens of thousands killed and wounded to the hundreds of billions of dollars spent in eight years of conflict, the cost of the Iraq war is astronomic and still growing.

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