U.S. Military Deaths in Iraq - 550 U.S. service members have died

[NNN0LHI]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040303/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_us_deaths&cid=540&ncid=1480

As of Wednesday, March 3, 550 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, 379 died as a result of hostile action and 171 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, 412 U.S. soldiers have died — 264 as a result of hostile action and 148 of non-hostile causes, according to the military.

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[Mari333]

1. 550 now, and the news media just ignores every death now

nothing on TV, no outrage as no funerals and no wounded are ever covered, no outraged families being interviewed, nothing.
550 isnt enough for the US public to get pissed????????????????????????
what the hell is wrong with people!!!!! I am beginning to detest every person I see who thinks this is something they can shove away in their mind and forget about
and I truly SPIT on anyone who ever supported this occupation or still supports it
I am beginning to hate this country, MY OWN country, if I dont see the people wake up soon ..I am beginning to think its not my country anymore, I am beginning to believe its time for me to go...when my stepson comes back, IF he comes back from this goddamn bloodbath over there, and if the US public is so intent on keeping the dictator in power, fuck em.
If he doesnt come back alive I will definitely leave. That will be the straw that breaks it..that will be the end of this country for me.

[papau]

2. Indeed one death was on network news as the first in a week!

boy, that made everything alright.

And 600 police dead in 3 months never gets mentioned because they are just local Arabs.

[FloridaPat]

3. The actual death toll is somewhere between 1,500 & 2000.

They are only counting people that died "in Iraq". The wounded that are sent to hospitals outside Iraq and die are not counted. More lies.

[metisnation]

4. Prayers

I will pray tonight for the safety of the men and women who are being forced into Iraq to fight this unjustified war. I write here on DU for these brave men and women, because I think it is bullshit that they and their families were lied to.

:kick:

double

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[Media_Lies_Daily]

6. 100% correct. That's why they don't want any pics taken of the...

...incoming caskets. And that's also why military funerals are being kept very quiet.

[osaMABUSh]

5. 412 + 138 = 550 plus how many Americans have been affected

138 died in the War; 412 after the conflict. Easily the highest post conflict deaths in our history.

How may people do you think are touched DIRECTLY by each death? For many of us, we do not personally know a killed soldier but think of the numbers that do and how that affects them and their feelings towards Shrub.

If a soldier who dies is from a small town, I'd say everyone in that town is directly affected and thinks very deeply and painfully about this War and this 'president'. No matter where the soldier is from, anybody who went to the same grade school or high school (not even necessarily at the same time), or played sports with him, or knew his brother or sister or parents or aunt, or worked with him, or worked with his mom or dad, or lived within a few miles, etc. feels personally affected. I'd say at least 1,000 people per soldier so that's easily 1/2 million Americans directly touched. Probably a million if the number hits 1,000 by year's end.

[The_Casual_Observer]

7. They have succeeded in reducing this and all other

"unpleasantness" to abstraction. The war has been very carefully framed as a minor annoyance. The same is true for joblessness.
It has all become "entertainment" for the low wage underclass.

[proud patriot]

8. :-(

please stop this madness