If that's your primary concern, then let's get some hard information on the security situation. I heard American deaths were way down, which means even less for

If that's your primary concern, then let's get some hard information on the security situation. I heard American deaths were way down, which means even less for the techies off the front lines. There were 149 American deaths in Iraq last year, but I think that might mean just soldiers. So about one out of every thousand soldiers. http://www.icasualties.org/Iraq/index.aspx http://www.icasualties.org/Iraq/index.aspx Also, there were 676 wounded, or about 4 out of every thousand. So 0.5% of the total force was killed or wounded. You could dig around for more exact numbers, but 1 out of 200 is a good first approximation for the injury/death rate of American forces in Iraq.