Casualties:

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Life on the Ground

Whether the President received “bad intelligence”, or the intelligence was “cooked” to build a case for a policy decision already made, the facts on-the-ground for the troops were the same. They were inserted into a violent, chaotic environment in which organized, armed resistance to their presence continues to the present day. Long, multiple tours of duty  mean prolonged exposure to the steady violence.  Many Marine and Army combat units are on their fourth, or even fifth, year-long tour of duty.   The Pentagon’s “stop-loss” policy of involuntary extensions of soldiers' tours of duty (aka “the back-door draft”) has added further to the troops' hardship.

	KILLED*	WOUNDED*
The Invasion: 3/20/03 - 5/1/03	140	542
	End of Major Combat  Operations
The Occupation: CPA under L. Paul Bremer: 5/2/03 - 6/28/04	717	5,086
Iraqi Provisional Gov't: 6/29/04 - 1/30/05	579	5,241
New Iraqi Gov't: 1/31/05/- 12/08	2,800	20,059
TOTALS	4,236	30,928
	* US Military: Source: Dept. of Defense
Days Since "The End of Major Combat Operations"	2,203    - Site Update1/28/09