And back in Iraq, a new study is suggesting the civilian death toll from the U.S. invasion has topped 1.2 million. The British agency Opinion Research Business surveyed more than 1,400 Iraqi adults. The estimate was based on the number of deaths reported per household and the number of total households in Iraq. One in two households in Baghdad reported losing at least one family member. The 1.2 million estimate is the highest on civilian deaths so far. A study in the British medical journal The Lancet last year put the number at more than 650,000. This week the top U.S. commander in Iraq, General David Petraueus, spoke about Iraqi deaths on NPR’s Morning Edition.

Gen. David Petraeus: “In many respects, this is a thinking man’s warfare. You can’t kill everyone out there. You’re not going to kill yourself out of an insurgency.”