Cycle
Donors
Amount
Average
2002 72 $56,200 $781 2004 57 $113,170 $1,985 2006 60 $127,900 $2,132 2008 51 $164,300 $3,222
All contributors 1979-2008 ($200 or more) A ALTSCHUL, ARTHUR | B Ballabon, Jeff | BERNHARD, ARNOLD | BLACKMAN, ARIEL | BOONE, MARY | BRAMWELL, ELIZABETH | BRECK, HENRY | BUDEN, CLARE | BUDEN, James | Butler, Gilbert | C CHELL, BEVERLY | Cohen, Alan | Cohen, Matthew | COOPER, MEL | COOPER, MELVIN | CORTEZ, MARTHA | Creavin, Damien | CUNEO, NGAIRE | CUNEO, Richard | D DEER, James | DEITCHMAN, BRUCE | DEROTHSCHILD, NATHANIEL | DEROTHSCHILD, NILI | DIAMOND, SELMA | Diker, Charles | Diker, Mark | Discepolo, Michaelanne | E Efrati, Amir | EHRMAN, FRED | Elsass, Sanford | Evans, Charles | F Feldman, Peter | Ferry, Sandra | FISHKO, Robert | FLYNN, MATTHEW | FOLEY, David | Fraenkel, Francis | FREIDMAN, PHILIP | Freundlich, Richard | FRIEDMAN, PHILIP | FRIEDMAN, PHILLIP | G GARTH, David | GENTILE, CAROL | GETTNER, ALAN | GLASS, STEVEN | GOLDSTEIN, Gordon | GOLDSTUCK, Charles | H HARMAN, CLARK | HAYS, SPENCER | HEFFERNAN, Daniel | Heller, Ben | HELLER, BETH | HERMAN, CLARK | HUNTER, EDWARD | J JAFFE, STANLEY | JAPAN GREEN STAMP AMERICA INC | K KAPLAN, BERNARD | Katz, Jeffrey | KETTANEH, ANTHONY | KETTANEH, MARY | KETTANEH, TAREK | L LANDIS, LINDA | LAUDER, RONALD | LAZIO, RICK | Lipson, Howard | Loeb, Peter | LORD, EDWARD | M MAHONEY, David | MALMAN, ARTHUR | Mann, Sally | MARCHESSI, ALEXANDER | MARCHESSINI, ALEXANDER | MCCORMICK, WILLIAM | MCCURDY, Charles | MCFADDEN, GEORGE | MCFADDEN, TROY | MCKEE, RENEE | Morris, Henry | N NETTER, ALICE | NETTER, Richard | Nicholas, N | O O'SULLIVAN, BENJAMIN | OWEN, TED | P PALITZ, BERNARD | PALMESE, Richard | Piccione, Tal | Pittman, Robert | Pretlow, Joseph | PRIMEDIA INC | R RAPETTI, ALFRED | Reilly, William | REILY, WILLIAM | RICHARDSON, FRANK | RICHMAN, KENNETH | Rogers, Thomas | Rogers, Tom | ROSS, Robert | RUDIN, WILLIAM | Rutkowski, Lawrence | S SANTANA, IVAN | Schwartz, Bernard | SCHWARTZ, IRENE | Sedgwick, Robert | Seiden, Evan | Sforzo, Robert | SHUFRO, EDWARD | SHUTRO, EDWARD | SIGELMAN, JESSE | SINGER, HERBERT | SINGER, NELL | SPIEGEL, SAM | STEIN, Daniel | STERN, JEROME | Stone, David | Stone, Sara | STRIZEVER, WILLIAM | SYRETT, James | T TREIBECK, Richard | Treibick, Richard | TRUMP, BLAINE | TRUMP, DONALD | TRUMP, Robert | v von Furstenberg, Diane | W Warshawsky, Stanford | WEISS, W | WENIGER, SIDNEY | WENNER | Wenner, Jane | Wenner, Jann | WERNER, JAN | WETENHALL, Robert | WHITE, BARRY | WHITE, JOSEPH | WIENER, John | WITTHUHN, WILFRIED | WOLK, DONALD | WOODNER, DIAN | WRIGHTSMAN, JAYNE | Z ZWIM, Daniel | ZWIRN, DAN | Zwirn, Daniel |
US WAR SHEET
Iraq
Afghanistan
Days
2,034
2,562
GIs Killed in Action
3,385
389
DoD
Non-Hostile GI Deaths
796
151
DoD
GIs Severely Wounded
13,530
1,616
DoD
Current Troop Deployment
146,000
30,000
Brookings , AP
Total Cost (approved through mid 2009)
$650 Bln
$200 Bln
AP
Cost Per Day (Avg)
$261 Mil
$70.8 Mil
casualty status updated October 11, 2008
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