Major combat operations in Iraq have been declared over on May 1st 2003.
However, the US military are still struggling to restore law and order to Iraq, ambushes and attacks on military personal have recently been occurring on a daily basis, the death toll amongst military personal has recently risen above the numbers of those who died during the War.
The overall economic bill the United States administration spends on the 140,000 troops in Iraq is an estimated one billion dollars per week.