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More than 200 U.S. troops were wounded in Iraq in the past week, the Pentagon said Tuesday, and the total since the invasion was launched in March 2003 is now 7,245. Of the 219 wounded in the past week, 81 were returned to duty; the 138 others were not. The Pentagon generally reports its wounded totals each week. Fatality totals are updated daily. The number of Americans killed and wounded has grown rapidly amid an intensifying and increasingly effective insurgency. There were more wounded over the past five months — about 4,000 — than in the first 13 months of...