We’ve reached another milestone in Iraq:
The number of United States military personnel killed in Iraq since the US-led invasion five years ago has passed the 4,000 mark.
The latest to die were four soldiers whose patrol vehicle was blown up by a bomb in southern Baghdad on Sunday.
President George W Bush offered his “deepest sympathies” to the families of US military personnel killed in Iraq.
Separately, the bodies of two US security contractors kidnapped in Iraq more than a year ago have been found.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation said it had recovered the remains of Ronald Withrow, who was seized in January 2007, and John Roy Young, abducted in November 2006.
On Sunday, insurgent attacks and military operations left at least 47 people dead across Iraq.
The bloodshed comes despite an overall reduction in violence since last June, following the US deployment of an extra 30,000 troops in violence-hit areas – the so-called “troop surge”.
Another hundred years of this war, as John McCain suggests, and this won’t seem so bad.
Update: The New York Times has a database of the lost lives. Each pixel represents one soldier. Click to see different faces.
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