Yahoo! News - U.S. Death Toll in Iraq Reaches 500
TIKRIT, Iraq - A powerful bomb exploded under a U.S. armored vehicle in the cane fields north of Baghdad on Saturday, killing three American soldiers and pushing the U.S. death toll in the Iraq (news - web sites) conflict to 500.

Reaching that threshold underscores the dangers still facing U.S. forces in Iraq as President Bush's administration prepares to seek help from the United Nations (news - web sites) in building a new Iraq, after shunning the world organization for months.

And still no WMD's...