The Count
03/18/2010
As of Tuesday, day 3,076 of the war in Afghanistan and day 2,530 of the war in Iraq …
931 American military service members (6 more than last week) have died in Afghanistan since the war began in 2001, and 4,388 (4 more than last week) have died in Iraq since the war began in 2003, according to the US Defense Department.
136 attacks killed 37 people in Sunday’s parliamentary elections in Iraq, US officials conceded this week after disputing reports of widespread election-day violence, The Washington Post reported.
47,000 of the 97,000 US troops in Iraq will likely leave as planned by the end of August, Gen. David Petraeus (below) told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday, the Associated Press reported.
2 reporters were in the House press gallery covering Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s (above) bill to end the Afghanistan war in as little as
30 days, prompting Democratic Rep. Patrick Kennedy to decry the press for focusing on former Rep. Eric Massa’s lurid sex scandal when “$3 billion and 1,000 lives” were being debated.
— Compiled by Jake Armstrong
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