A high price indeed

We ain't started killin' yet, says the Pentagon. "We're prepared to pay a very high price because we are not going to do anything other than ensure that this regime goes away," a US central command official said, adding that US casualties in the war had been "fairly" light. So far, 51 Americans and 26 Britons have been killed and 14 US troops were missing. Iraq said 589 civilians had been killed, and almost 5000 injured.