How many American soldiers die in Iraq so far?

Question

Sad question but I really not sure what the numbers...

Answer 1

3,557 as of today.....Semper Fi...http://360.yahoo.com/lavadogmarineone

Answer 2

Still less than 1% of total American soldiers deployed to the region, a rather insignificant amount in comparison to past wars (some of which were shorter) that had 25% to 50% casualties among total American soldiers deployed.

The reason the media keeps a detailed account is because it looks more dramatic than the percentage. It looks better (for their anti-war cause) to say 3,500 Americans have died instead of 0.51% or 0.63% or whatever the percent is.

Answer 3

As of 23JUN07: 3539 confirmed dead
20 unconfirmed but reported dead
3559 total US dead
26,129 US wounded(confirmed)

224 US contractors killed as of April 07

12,000 total contractors wounded Current as of 19 May 07

UK 153 dead 310 Wounded (confirmed)

Other Countries combined wounded: 290
Other Countries dead
Italy: 33
Poland: 20
Ukraine: 18
Bulgaria: 13
Spain: 11
Denmark: 7
El Salvador: 5
Slovakia: 4
Latvia: 3
Thailand: 2
Australia: 2
Netherlands: 2
Estonia: 2
Romania:
South Korea: 1
Czech Republic: 1
Kazakhstan: 1
Hungary: 1

A complete list minus those who have not yet been confirmed is available through: http://www.icasualties.org/oif/BY_DOD.aspx

As far as civilian causalities it's impossible to get an accurate count, but: (Current as of 14 June 2005)
24,865 confirmed civilians were reported killed in the first two years
Baghdad alone recorded almost half of all deaths
At least 42,500 civilians were reported wounded.
According to the iraq study group; Some 3,000 Iraqi civilians are killed every month from insurgants, and Coalition Forces.
According to the October, 2006 Lancet reort an estimated 654,965 excess deaths have been related to the war.(With a 95% confidence interval of 392,979 to 942,636 total deaths)

To answer solaran_x:
With an initial US invasion force of 250,000 and an average of 160,000 for each year from there on, it's safe to say there were at least 560,000 deployments from 2003 to present out of those 560,000, 30,000 have become casualities (meaning hurt to the point that they can't continue their mission or killed). Equaling 5.35% of the Iraqi campaign are casualties. But only 0.63% were actually killed.

Please remember that it is possible for some of these numbers (including civilian dead and CF wounded) could be much higher, due to them not being verified by DoD, Departement of State or any other official office of the Coalition Forces in Iraq

Answer 4

As many as the terrorists can take out. It's all over the news, they love to report how many soldiers die. Unfortunately they are mostly ambushes and IED's that take our soldiers out. It's kind of hard to fight a faceless enemy that blends in with the very people we are trying to protect. Click on this for now...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070624/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq
It is a sad question by the way.

Answer 5

3,557!

I don't know why people want to forget we have other people fighting with us that are taking deaths as well!

3,838 have been killen in Iraq. This includes 153 from the UK!

We lost 10 yesterday!

Answer 6

3557
Almost what we lost on 9/11 - lose them in a hour or 4 years. We had to choose.

Answer 7

all you have to do is google it..,you are on the internet I am sure you know how.I will put it this way,this war has the LOWEST death rate of all the wars at the same length of time into a war.

Answer 8

Too damn many. Sorry to put it bluntly but we need to pull out and drop the bomb.

Answer 9

One was one too many. Now we have about 3,500 too many.

Answer 10

About 5.000, if I remember correctly.