U.S. Iraq Military Deaths - 773 U.S. service members have died

[NNN0LHI]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040512/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_us_deaths&cid=540&ncid=1480

As of Wednesday, May 12, 773 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, 563 died as a result of hostile action and 210 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, 635 U.S. soldiers have died — 454 as a result of hostile action and 181 of non-hostile causes, according to the military's numbers.

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[oneighty]

1. It is so sad.

Nobody in position to do something about it seems to care.

180

[DLC]

2. Brave men and women

The best tribute would be establishing democracy in Iraq, rather than let it fall back into the hands of another brutal dictator.

[arcane1]

3. too late, Bush is the new brutal dictator, the butcher of Baghdad 2

those in power will never tolerate true democracy there.. there is no profit for them!

[DLC]

4. Bush's execution is clearly flawed

But leaving now is not the answer.

[arcane1]

8. what is?

killing more of them? Letting them kill more of us? :shrug:

[Pale_Rider]

5. Here's a link that I've found to be informative ...

... the Iraq Coalition Casualties website.

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

Gives news of deaths, names and causes of those that died.

[saigon68]

6. TODAYS TRIBUTES BELOW

[saigon68]

7. Army Pfc. Nathan Brown

The family of Army Pfc. Nathan Brown, from left, brother Christopher L. Brown, mother Kathy Brown, and father Ricky L. Brown walk into St. Alphonsus Roman Catholic Church in Glens Falls, N.Y., for the soldier's funeral service on Tuesday, April 20, 2004. Brown was killed April 11, 2004, in Samarra, Iraq (news - web sites)., when a rocket-propelled grenade, or RPG, struck their diesel truck. Fellow serviceman Troy Mechanick, wounded in the same attack, said that traveling in a slow-moving five-ton diesel truck on April 11 was ``a bad tactical decision'' in light of prior intelligence reports in the Samarra area. (AP Photo/Jim McKnight)


RIP-----------------saigon