A Look at U.S. Daily Deaths in Iraq - 433 U.S. service members have died

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20031126/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_us_deaths&cid=540&ncid=1480

As of Tuesday, Nov. 25, 433 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq, according to the Department of Defense. Of those, 298 died as a result of hostile action and 135 died of non-hostile causes, the department said.

On or since May 1, when President Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 295 U.S. soldiers have died — 184 as a result of hostile action and 111 of non-hostile causes, according to the Defense Department's figures.

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1. Is this counting the 17 from those two helicopters?

It's crazy that you have to go through such contortions just to find a few simple facts. Does anyone think the Iraqis won't get 500 by Christmas? How can the men who voted for this war look at themselves in the mirror, especially with no WMDs and no Saddam?

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2. Well, they have control over 1.5 million barrels

...a day. That's what really matters to them.