From Alternet’s 4,000 Troop Deaths: A Number That Just Scratches the Surface: “Almost 30,000 American troops have been wounded in Iraq, according to official counts. But that’s just the official figure; the Pentagon doesn’t have adequate mechanisms in place to accurately track the number of wounded soldiers, and unofficial estimates range to 100,000. How many of those soldiers and Marines suffered wounds so severe that they would have been KIA in any of America’s previous conflicts? Nobody knows for sure, but it’s clear that 4,000 is a number that doesn’t tell the whole story of this war’s impact on U.S. servicemen and women.”