War is horrible:

Four thousand GI' s persons killed in five war years:

It's a symbolic threshold; a figure of which the vice-president of the United States Dick Cheney acknowledged on Monday that he would have a psychological impact.

The number of American servicemen killed in five years in Iraq since the plague of March 20th, 2003 has ateint the symbolic threshold of four milles died, to a bilande the AFP established from figures of the independent Internet site: http://www.icasualties.org/. On Sunday, 23 march, four GI' s were killed by a device trapped in the south of Bagdad. With this attack, meal des losses of the alliance aimed by the United States if pupil consequently misses four thousand three hundred died huits, among whom four American thousand, hundred and seventy five British soldiers and hundred and thirty three members of other contingents.

The president George W. Bush learnt news with "grief ". " It mourns each of lost lives, the very first in this conflict in those today's, specified the spokeswoman of the White House having spoken with the President. " And it carries the responsibility of decisions which he took, and he also carries responsibility to continue dedicating himself to succeed ", she said. " We regret every victim, any loss. It could have a psychological impact on the public but it is dune of these tragedies which can occur in our world ", had declared before the vice-president of the United States Dick Cheney. It could have a psychological impact on the public but it is dune of these tragedies which can occur in our world ", had declared before the vice-president of the United States Dick Cheney.

One of the stakes of presidential election:

More than twenty nine thousand three hundred and fourteen Americans were also bléssés since the beginning of the war, a third of which will remain mutilated and disabled. About 40 % of the persons killed perished in murder attempts, most often the explosion of trapped said devices IED able of piercing armour plating, according to the site iccasualties. The bloodiest year for the American army has summer, 2007, with 901 deceases. November, 2004, which coincides with attack against the Sunni bastion of Falloujah, was the bloodiest month for GI' s with 137 deaths. Since the beginning on 2008, 96 American soldiers were killed, always according to the same site. As comparison, fifty eight thousand Amércains had found death during the war of the Vietnam (1964-1973).

American contingent comes to hundred and fifty eight thousand men nowadays. About two milles GI' s began at the beginning of March to leave as part of the collection announced by five brigades of battle (about thirty milles men) before July, 2008. With the delicate question of losses been subjected by " the boys ", the calendar of collection remains subject to polemic in the United States and constitutes one of the main stakes of the presidential election of November, 2008.

About thirty thousand soldiers had been sent as reinforcements at the beginning of 2007 to Iraq, particularly in Bagdad, for the implementation of a vast plan of security. This offensive, conjugated in a clever strategy of draft of ancient Sunni insurgents to struggle against Al-Qaïda and in a truce of the main shiite militia of the country, allowed a relating improvement of security in Bagdad as well as in several provinces. At the beginning of 2008 been however marked by an increase in acts of violence and a resumption of the large-scale attacks against the civilians. The number of Iraqi victims are this day unknown and played the object very divergent estimates, going of 100 000 in a million deaths according to sources.