US Military Deaths in Iraq Approach 500

[leftchick]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040109/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_rising_toll&cid=540&ncid=1480

<snip>BAGHDAD, Iraq - The number of American troops who have died in Iraq (news - web sites) since the war began last March is nearing 500, more than U.S. losses in many regional conflicts of the past several decades: the Gulf War (news - web sites), Lebanon, Somalia, Panama, Grenada, Kosovo and Afghanistan (news - web sites).

So far the Iraq conflict has cost the lives of 494 American service members, including nine who were killed Thursday in the crash of a Black Hawk medivac helicopter believed shot down near Fallujah. Most of the deaths — both combat and non-combat — have occurred since President Bush (news - web sites) declared an end to major fighting on May 1.

Already, the loss of American life in Iraq has surpassed the U.S. death toll of the first Gulf War of 1991, when about 315 Americans died in the operation to drive Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s forces from Kuwait. That figure includes combat and non-combat deaths suffered during the military buildup and the war itself.

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U.S. officials dismiss most of the attacks by Iraqi insurgents as militarily insignificant, and the Bush administration strongly defends the U.S. role in Iraq. Bush said during a visit to London in November that the failure to build democracy in Iraq "would throw its people back into misery and turn that country over to terrorists who wish to destroy us."

[IndianaGreen]

1. They are not counting the ones wounded in Iraq that later died in US

such as Spec. Luke Frist, who died on January 6, 2004, at Brooke Army Medical Center, from burns over 95% of his body caused by a rocket attack on the convoy he was traveling in Iraq.

I dare say we exceeded the 500 mark a long time ago.

[leftchick]

2. I agree IG....

I dare say it is much worse than they are letting on.... :(

[0007]

3. This should be looked into immediately -

How can they cook the books with human life?

[TheLastMohican]

5. Frankly, they are not reporting 20 to 30 attacks on US troops a day

that end up with casualties (usually maimed, brain-damaged and such). 500 is not a milestone - it is an indication that even with lies the Bush media propaganda can't hide the true costs of this war.

[dusty64]

6. The soldiers whose

lives have been destroyed in this corporate "war" are being disappeared by our regime. Are there any numbers on the soldiers maimed in our "war on terra", I can't easily find them.

[dbt]

4. And where the FUCK are the WMD?

Where's the Sarin?
Where's the Anthrax?
Where are the 30,000 munitions?
Where are the drone aircraft that were going to attack the east coast?
Where are the mobile bioterror labs?

And where's that Cakewalk?

:grr:
dbt

[saigon68]

7. Cakewalk got up and went to eat

It apparently went to the buffet and is now sleeping after eating an extra helping of mashed potatoes and gravy.


LOL

[leftchick]

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