http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gqgQCcv26kB1dkgZRZNHmbn_1J8gD8VU33RO0As of Tuesday, April 8, 2008, at least 4,025 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes eight military civilians. At least 3,277 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers.
The AP count is eight more than the Defense Department's tally, last updated Tuesday at 10 a.m. EDT.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,101956,00.htmlSNOW: It's an interesting thing, because I get e-mails all the time, and people say, "We hear about our death counts. We never hear about theirs. Why?"
RUMSFELD: Well, we don't do body counts on other people. And we have certain rules on people we capture, in terms of exposing them to the public, Geneva Conventions and the like.
But on any given day, dozens of terrorists or criminals or Baathist remnants of the Saddam Hussein regime are being captured or killed, all across that country.