Look at Iraq U.S. Military Deaths - 544 U.S. service members have died

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040220/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_us_deaths&cid=540&ncid=1473

As of Friday, Feb. 20, 544 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, 378 died as a result of hostile action and 166 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, 406 U.S. soldiers have died — 263 as a result of hostile action and 143 of non-hostile causes, according to the military.

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1. If I were religious I would at least be comforted that * will burn in Hell

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2. 547

18 in February 2004

547 in 338 days

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

in a related story:

"Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington announced Thursday that it has revised upward by as much as 10 percent the number of patients and battlefield casualties it has treated. It said the increase came because the hospital switched from compiling the statistics from manifests for each medical evacuation flight to using a Walter Reed computer database.

As of Wednesday, Walter Reed had treated 2,775 patients from the Iraq war -- 175 more than it had previously reported. Of the new total, 476 were classified as battle casualties, meaning their injuries were caused by "enemy action." That is 40 more battle casualties than Walter Reed had previously reported"

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/02/19/national1005EST0540.DTL

The slaughter continues.