400

That's how many soldiers that have died in Iraq since the war began in March.

And how about the injured?:

Fortunately, Time magazine wasn’t afraid this week to confront the realities of what’s happening to our soldiers in the shooting gallery of Iraq, where they are literally being torn limb from limb. Here’s an excerpt from Mark Thompson’s article:

For several seconds after the rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) drilled through the back of their armored M113 "battle taxi," the soldiers inside, mainlining adrenaline, continued firing. Then they started screaming. "It blew my leg clean off," says Private First Class Tristan Wyatt, who was standing at the rear of the armored personnel carrier (APC), unloading an M-240 machine gun at a dozen or more Iraqis who had ambushed them minutes before. He was the first to be hit. The RPG then passed through Sergeant Erick Castro’s hip, spinning him violently to the floor. His left leg was still attached — but barely. "I picked up my leg and put it on the bench," he says, "and lay down next to it." Finally, the RPG shredded Sergeant Mike Meinen’s right leg. "It was pretty much torn off," he says. "There was just some meat and tendons holding it on . . . As troops on the two other APCs continued firing, the lone medic among the 15 soldiers on the patrol climbed up the back ramp into the compartment. " ‘Holy s___!’ was the first thing out of his mouth, and it looked like his eyes were about to pop out of his head," Wyatt remembers. "That’s kind of disheartening when he's talking about you."

Sick. Just plain sick.