When crunching the numbers on the war in Iraq, what it all adds up to pretty much depends on who’s doing the math. In this case, we’ll provide the numbers, and leave the you to figure out how it all adds up. The tally in Clarendon, the one this DCist passes by almost every day, now reads a total of 1,520 U.S. casualties in Iraq. It’s just a little off the online total, which is now 1,523. Chances are a few more casualties occured by the time the person or persons responsible for the sign got around to updating it from its previous total, 1,503.

As of Saturday, we’ve been in Iraq for two years. One online counter puts the fiscal cost of Iraq at more than $150 billion (and countring). Besides the human cost in the lives of U.S personnel, estimates of Iraqi civlian casualties range from 17,000 to 100,000. All told, more than 1,000 U.S. children have lost parents in the invasion and ensuing occupation of Iraq. Closer to home, a total of 70 men and women from the Metro DC area have lost their lives in the Iraq war.

Whatever the final costs of the Iraq war are — and the myriad ways they affect our lives — in the final tally, whether or not the result is worth it is something we’ll each have to decide for ourselves.