U.S. Iraq Military Deaths - 772 U.S. service members have died

[NNN0LHI]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040511/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_us_deaths&cid=540&ncid=1473

As of Tuesday, May 11, 772 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq (news - web sites) last year, according to the Department of Defense (news - web sites). Of those, 562 died as a result of hostile action and 209 died of non-hostile causes. snip

Since May 1, 2003, when President Bush (news - web sites) declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 634 U.S. soldiers have died — 453 as a result of hostile action and 181 of non-hostile causes, according to the military's numbers.

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[boobooday]

1. Bush has blood on his hands

These are dark days.



http://www.wgoeshome.com

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. bush looks like a real southern gentleman with that hat

just a brimin with slow easy southern hospitality. May he fry in hell

[wtmusic]

2. We're experiencing 'casualty deflation'

the DOD is taking a bigger piece away for 'non-hostile, non-direct line-of-fire blah blah blah' deaths.

[CharlesGroce]

4. Modern Medicine

can keep a piece of hamburger alive a long time, even so that they can die in Germany.

[bushwakker]

5. George W. Fucking Bush killed every one of them

I'm so pissed off right now. These fuckers must be removed from office.

[NNN0LHI]

6. Yes he did kill everyone of them. n/t

[Nihil]

7. I see the US is awash with outrage over that news release

No? Wonder why not?

Even if you allow for the fiddling of the numbers and take the total
as a mere 562 from hostile action, why is there not an overwhelming
outcry going on?

This is a hundred times more than the total mentioned in the "news item"
deaths (4 mercs and one civilian) yet there is a stunning silence from
the tabloids, a short concise mention in the broadsheets and a mere
"In other news today" from the idiot box.

And people think that the population is not being steered by the
administration's publicity machine ...?

Nihil

[primavera]

8. Don't forget the 10,000 dead Iraqi civilians

The military guys at least knew what they were signing up for; the children dragged from the rubble of Iraqi apartment buildings demolished by US missiles had no such choice.