War on Terror Body Counts

The number of American soldiers killed in Iraq has passed 1000, which is a tragedy. And of course there were the roughly 2800 killed in the World Trade Center attack, which was an even greater tragedy. But they're not the only casualties of this conflict, and that got me to thinking.

Since the president wants to link Iraq with 9/11 as all part of some comprehensive "War on Terror", let's do a comparison: U.S. civilians killed, and Iraqi civilians killed. Guess which country's suffering more? I'm thinking maybe it's the one on the right. (And if you were to present it in terms of percentage of the population killed, you couldn't even put them on the same scale.)

But what about those 1000+ soldiers, marines, etc? How do they stack up? Well, if you figure a standard 23" high pine box for each of them, and stacked them next to, say the Washington Monument, it'd look something like this: