As of Tuesday, day 1,806 of the war in Iraq...
02/28/2008
- 3,970 members of the US military have been killed in Iraq, 10 reported since the last Count.
- 29,275 American service members have been reported wounded, 142 since the figure was last updated two weeks ago.
- 80 percent of 3,400 current and former military officers responding to a survey by Foreign Policy magazine and the Center for a New American Security said they believe the military has been stretched so thin in Iraq that it would be unreasonable to expect the US to wage another major war anytime soon, reported CNN. Officers also expressed an "overwhelmingly negative view" of early decisions shaping the war.
- 8,000 more troops will be in Iraq this summer than were there in January 2007, bringing projected deployment totals to about 140,000, The New York Times reported Tuesday.
- 81,525 is the minimum number of estimated civilian deaths due to violence in Iraq since the US invasion began, 99 of them reported since the last Count.
- 26,000 Iraqis are currently imprisoned, and more than 50 percent of them still awaiting trial - some for years - reported The New York Times earlier this month. Officials say Iraq does not have enough prison beds, attorneys or judges to handle the wave of new detainees that began flooding the system following last summer's troop surge.
- $497.8 billion has been spent on the war.
- Information compiled by Liz Hedrick and Joe Piasecki from reports by the US Department of Defense, Iraq Body Count and the National Priorities Project, unless otherwise noted.
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