U.S. Military Deaths in Iraq - 537 U.S. service members have died

[NNN0LHI]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040214/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_us_deaths&cid=540&ncid=1480

As of Friday, Feb. 13, 537 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, 373 died as a result of hostile action and 164 died of non-hostile causes, the department said. The department did not provide an update Saturday. snip

Since May 1, when President Bush (news - web sites) declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 399 U.S. soldiers have died — 258 as a result of hostile action and 141 of non-hostile causes, according to the military.

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[boobooday]

1. As Jimmy Breslin wrote today in Newsday

George Bush has their blood on his hands.

http://www.wgoeshome.com

Jeanette

[OneBlueSky]

2. do they counted the injured who die months later? . . .

betcha they don't . . . so I bet the total's considerably higher than is being reported . . .

[dflprincess]

3. You beat me to that question

I'd like to know how many of the wounded have died. I know during Vietnam a death didn't count as a battle casualty if it happened after the soldier was removed from the field and, it didn't count if it was the result of "friendly fire".

[NNN0LHI]

5. I have seen where soldiers who have died stateside from their wounds...

...in Iraq were indeed added to this AP count in the past. Whether or not they count them all I can't say for sure. Hope that helps.

Don

[Media_Lies_Daily]

8. No, they're not counting the wounded that die later....

...and I'm guessing that they're also undercounting those that are wounded. For every soldier killed their ought to be about 12 to 15 wounded. Of those that are wounded, about 10% will die of their wounds within 30 days or less.

A ballpark guess as to the real casualty numbers in Iraq? Based on everything that we're reading and hearing about the severity of the wounds, I'd say approximately 750 dead and about 10,000 wounded.

Any guess is good concerning the casualty figures from the "forgotten war" in Afghanistan. I'm thinking maybe 200 dead and another 2800 wounded, but who knows for sure?

[metisnation]

4. May God Bless their souls

We will fight back against this illegal war to help this from not happening.

[pippin]

6. Actually 540

46 in January 2004

12 in February 2004

Counting soldiers form UK and other countries the total fatalities is 640


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

Like his mother Bush isn't about to bother his "beautiful mind"
about Americans who have died.


Take a look at the faces of the dead America.

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

[dbt]

7. Thank you for these posts, NNNOLHI.

They are ugly, brutal and absolutely necessary. Pollyannamerica needs to know how many fine and dedicated young Americans have been sent by bu$h to die for profit.

:grr:
dbt

[Media_Lies_Daily]

10. I remember the 1969 Life Magazine article where they included a,...

...picture, name, age, and branch of service of every soldier killed during one week of combat in Vietnam. It was a very powerful piece that caused a lot of questions to be asked among a segment of Americans that usually didn't ask any questions at all.

<http://www.life.com/Life/covers/1969/cv062769.html>

[Mari333]

9. please everytime you call your senators

everytime you contact the news media..demand that the soldiers be given a voice, demand that the caskets and body bags be shown, demand that the funerals be shown, demand that the military families are covered, demand that the wounded are shown at Walter Reed..this is all being hidden away from the public. all of it. These kids are forgotten because the public doesnt care to look for it.