Russian war casualties are still high, and a two-week-old battle for Komsomolskoye, a ruined village that Russian forces claimed to have taken in a day but have yet to subdue, has punched holes in the sunny official picture.
From a hard-nosed perspective, the other nominees who will not get up-or-down votes in this round can be considered casualties of war.
Bush is under growing pressure even within his own party to shift course in Iraq as the war drags on and casualties climb.
They were just early casualties of a war that would cost 100, 000 lives.
Finally, with the war dragging on, the casualties mounting, and no one else willing to step forward, McCarthy made it official.
The men were the first Japanese casualties in the war in Iraq.
Britain lost six ships and suffered hundreds of casualties in the war.
Finally, now's as good of a time as any to take a look at some of the peripheral casualties from this war of attrition.
For instance, casualties during World War I numbered 22.5 million.
The major casualties in this currency war are developing countries with trade deficits, such as Brazil, Mexico, and India.
Western public opinion, it was believed, had no stomach for the sorts of casualties that a ground war would have entailed.
ECONOMIST: One way or another, combat troops are needed to end this war
"War is war, and there will be casualties, " Powell said on NBC.
And we must all hope and pray that the war will be short with minimum casualties and an outcome that helps to secure a better world.
But police aren't the only casualties in this escalating war.
The United States is surely right to seek to minimise its own casualties, but if war can be waged by one side without any risk to the life and limb of its combatants, has a vital form of restraint been removed?
In war, you always try to limit civilian casualties, but when the insurgency is embedded with them, it becomes a difficult situation.
He opposed the war not on principle but for fear of casualties: he had been presented with estimates that ran high as 40, 000.
Rather than dispatch troops to a war-zone, and have little but casualties to show for it afterwards, the Clinton administration decided instead to try to make peace in Bosnia and then to send in troops to enforce it.
Americans are more certain in their support of Mr Bush, though of course this might change if, as in the Vietnam war, the conflict dragged on and the American casualties mounted.
One of the most notable elements in modern war is the generally lower level of its own casualties that a state will tolerate (the other side too, at least if there is a camera around).
The UNODA estimates that by the 1970s and '80s, 25 states were developing chemical weapons capabilities, and that since the end of the First World War, such munitions have caused more than 1 million casualties globally.
That's because as casualties mount, people become more conscious of the war.
These casualties tend to peak in the weeks after a war, explains Richard Lloyd, of Landmine Action, a campaign group, as people return to places that they had wrongly assumed to be safe.
Its essential policy is to have sufficient forces to inflict heavy casualties on any attacker in the event of a war, while relying upon its nuclear forces to deter any conflict in the first place.
Each measure represents a week of the war, and the number of notes played per measure represents the number of casualties that week: 10 casualties in a given week result in a measure with 10 notes played.
Bush also drew a picture of his war-planning options amid a wave of sectarian and insurgent violence, continued casualties of U.S. forces and an Iraqi government that the report said is struggling to reconcile the fractious nation's many cultural differences.
Al-Sahaf, speaking mostly in English for the first time since the war began, issued a list of civilian areas he said the coalition had bombarded, enumerating casualties in villages and neighborhoods.
That day, the bodies of the first British casualties arrived home and a poll taken by YouGov showed the first fall in support for the war since it began.
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