Aug 31 (Reuters) - The United States is reducing its forces in Iraq below 50,000, but there are doubts President Barack Obama will be able to withdraw all U.S. troops by the end of 2011, as dictated in a bilateral pact.
President George W. Bush launched the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 that ousted Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. The war became unpopular among Americans as U.S. deaths mounted.
As of Aug. 18, the Defense Department said there had been 4,419 U.S. military deaths since the 2003 invasion. Following is a list of other wars, how long the United States was involved in each and the number of U.S. military fatalities:
WAR DATE KILLED:
REVOLUTIONARY WAR 1775-1783 4,435
WAR OF 1812 1812-1815 2,260
MEXICAN WAR 1846-1848 13,283
CIVIL WAR 1861-1865 364,511**
** Union forces only; authoritative statistics for Confederate forces unavailable; incomplete tallies show 133,821 Confederate deaths.
SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR 1898 2,446
WORLD WAR ONE 1917-1918 116,516
WORLD WAR TWO 1941-1946 405,399
KOREAN WAR 1950-1953 36,574
VIETNAM WAR 1964-1973 58,220
GULF WAR 1990-1991 383
WAR IN AFGHANISTAN 2001- 1,255*
* As of Aug 30, 2010.
(Sources: Reuters/U.S. Congressional Research/U.S. Department of Defense/www.icasualties.org)
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