Kind of on a tangent, here is a website where you can see the monthly totals of dead and wounded US servicemen/women since the start of the war.
The table is divided into two parts. March and April 2003, i.e. before President Bush declared "the end of major combat". 138 killed and 542 wounded. And May 2003 to present (August 2005), which I now dub the period of "endless minor combat". 1790 killed and appx 12,000 wounded. This doesn't include 7 Marines killed today.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/iraq_casualties.htm