Daily Look at US Military Deaths in Iraq-485 US service members have died

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/iraq_us_deaths

As of Thursday, Jan. 8, 485 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq (news - web sites), according to the Defense Department. Of those, 333 died as a result of hostile action and 152 died of non-hostile causes, the department said. snip

Since May 1, when President Bush (news - web sites) declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 347 U.S. soldiers have died — 218 as a result of hostile action and 129 of non-hostile causes, according to the Defense Department's figures.

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[fearnobush]

1. More like 496

<http://lunaville.org/warcasualties/Summary.aspx>

[ET Awful]

2. Yup, the 485 doesn't include the helicopter crash from today

or the fatality from the mortar attack yesterday.

[Mr. Brown of MD]

3. The mortar attack is probably in there

The Lunaville fatality count has been two higher than the count given by the Department of Defense for some time now. I've tried to figure out why that is, and my guess is that there are a couple of people who contracted some illness in Iraq, but were evacuated stateside and died here.

Anyway, that's my guess, because if you take the 485 + 9 from today's helicopter attack, that's 494, which gets us to two below Lunaville.

-CollegeDude
Support our troops... don't let them die

[Hamlette]

4. something's wrong with the numbers

333 died from hostile action, 152 died from non-hostile causes(whatever that is) or about 31.3% died from non hostile causes

2445 injured in hostile action, 383 injured in non hostile causes, or 13.5% injured from non hostile causes.

How can that be? Why so many more deaths than injuries from "non hostile causes"? Why are they dying?

[Guaranteed]

5. Getting close to 500.

:thumbsdown:

[pippin]

6. see their faces too

Wahington Post has a weekly update with photos and bios to remind us these are not statistics but real women and men--some mere children.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/iraq/casualties/facesofthefallen.htm