Day 1,127 of the Iraq War...
04/20/2006
As of Tuesday, day 1,127 of the Iraq War…
- 2,379 American soldiers have been reported killed in Iraq.
- 17,648 have been reported wounded in action.
- 34,493 is the minimum number of civilian casualties in Iraq.
- $255 billion in taxpayer funds have been spent on the war, enough to have provided more than 153 million children with health insurance for one year.
Since the last Count...
- 19 more American soldiers have been reported killed in Iraq.
- 99 more American soldiers have been reported wounded in action.
- 463 more Iraqi civilians have been reported killed.
- 6 retired generals have publicly called for the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. The generals calling for his resignation are critical of the way Rumsfeld has handled the war in Iraq, but the Bush administration has dismissed the criticism, saying that Rumsfeld has no plans to resign.
QUOTE: “We need to continue to fight the global war on terror and keep it off our shores. … But I do not believe Secretary Rumsfeld is the right person to fight that war based on his absolute failures in managing the war against Saddam in Iraq,” Maj. Gen. Charles H. Swannack Jr. told The New York Times Friday.
Rumsfeld countered these accusations in a briefing Tuesday, saying he had no regrets about the decisions he has made in Iraq. “I look back on those decisions and I am proud of them,” he said, adding “They caused a lot of ruffles, let there be no doubt.”
Meanwhile, in Afghanistan...
- 223 American soldiers have been reported killed.
- 712 have been reported wounded in action.
- 6 people, including a newborn baby and a 5-year-old child, were wounded Tuesday when US-led troops opened fire on cars that ignored instructions to stop.
QUOTE: “They started firing, the car's tires were punctured and the soldiers came out and spoke to us through a translator. We told them that they destroyed our lives and they rushed off without saying anything,” Abdul Wakil, grandfather of the wounded infant, told the Washington Post Tuesday.
— Information compiled by Hilary Jones from reports by the US Department of Defense, CNN, Iraq Body Count, the National Priorities Project, The New York Times, the Washington Post and the Associated Press.
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