Look at U.S. Iraq Military Deaths - 535 U.S. service members have died

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040212/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_us_deaths&cid=540&ncid=1480

As of Wednesday, Feb. 11, 535 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq (news - web sites), according to the Department of Defense (news - web sites). Of those, 372 died as a result of hostile action and 163 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, 397 U.S. soldiers have died — 257 as a result of hostile action and 140 of non-hostile causes, according to the military.

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[RobertSeattle]

1. Seeing their faces is especially powerful

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/iraq/casualties/facesofthefallen.htm?nav=hptop_ts

(Updated 2/6/04)

[indepat]

2. The actual number is 1188, not 535, if the claims of one website are valid

http://joevialls.altermediainfo/yourson.html

[ConcernedCanuk]

4. Phew, - - - I figured out the link - interesting read - (fixed link too -)

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From the link:

According to a well-placed Pentagon source, the White House and corporate media are reporting less than half the actual American military deaths in Iraq. As of 3 February 2004, the 'official' media total stood at 528, while the real total at midnight on the same day was 1,188. This criminal discrepancy in the fatality figures is not the fault of soldiers on the ground in Iraq, but of corrupt civilians in the Pentagon working for Paul Wolfowitz Inc. The Pentagon officer explained it like this.

"If a soldier is completely dismembered by a bomb, then he is dead. Likewise, if a soldier is hit by a full burst of machine-gun fire, then he also is dead. The problems start when the medic is not quite sure whether the injured soldier is dead or not. We all like to save life if possible, so if the medic believes there is the faintest glimmer of hope, the injured soldier is sent immediately to the nearest aid station."

"The split-second that soldier is removed from contact , he is officially listed as 'wounded', regardless of whether he then dies 3 seconds or minutes or hours or days or months later, as a direct result of injuries sustained in the contact. Deaths in transit to the U.S., or after soldiers return home are also excluded completely, or become 'accidental deaths'. This is how Wolfowitz and his people massage the figures, and how the American public is misled."

Initially these comments sound suspiciously like an angry senior officer exaggerating the case in an attempt to have his unit prematurely withdrawn from the Iraqi killing fields. However, as the officer carefully went on to explain, his claims are borne out and substantiated by the very different way in which the corporate media reports civilian deaths in Iraq. "

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[pippin]

3. 536 actually

46 in January 2004

8 in February 2004

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

ENOUGH!!! ENOUGH!!! ENOUGH!!!