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Wolfowitz miscalculates military deaths in Iraq

Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz, testifying Thursday before a congressional committee, drastically underestimated the number of U.S. military deaths in Iraq since the war began.
'It's approximately 500, of which -- I can get the exact numbers -- approximately 350 are combat deaths,' said Wolfowitz, one of the architects of the war.
According to the Pentagon, 724 U.S. troops had died in Iraq as of Thursday morning. Of those, 522 were combat deaths. That figure does not include U.S. civilian casualties.
Wolfowitz provided the erroneous figures while being questioned by Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, during a hearing by the House Appropriations subcommittee on foreign operations.