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Number of American troops killed in Iraq since March 2003: 3,002
Number of Iraqis killed since March 2003: 44,000 - 655,000
Number of American troops wounded in Iraq since March 2003: 22,057
Lifetime number of days spent in combat by George W. Bush: 0
Lifetime number of days spent in combat by Dick Cheney: 0
Lifetime number of days spent in combat by Donald Rumsfeld: 0
Number of successive deferments used by Dick Cheney to avoid the draft during the Vietnam War: 5
Length of time between the military's declaring married childless men eligible for the draft (in October 1965) and the birth
of the Cheneys' first child: 9 months and 2 days
Number of weeks into his wife Lynne's pregnancy that Dick Cheney applied for a fatherhood deferment: 10
Number of American deaths in Iraq since Bush declared "Mission Accomplished" in May 2003: 2,862
(Sources: Washington Post 1/1/2007, iCasualties.org, CNN.com 10/11/2006, Slate.com 3/18/2004, Salon.com 8/1/2000.)
(Posted 1/3/07 by Bruce A. Jacobs)
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