2500 dead troop info... halted.

[Brundle_Fly]

been five days we have been stuck at 2497 dead in Iraq. With the average of 2 dead a day, it would seem the pentagon is holding off the milestone numbers reporting.

maybe save it for a friday...?

[fooj]

1. Don't want to mix up any sad truth with all of the GOOD NEWS...

Assholes.

[AndyA]

2. Wouldn't that be censorship and manipulation?

Oh, sorry...I forgot...for a second I thought this was America.

[Breeze54]

3. I wouldn't call it 'stuck'!

Would you really? :shrug:

http://icasualties.org/oif/prdDetails.aspx?hndRef=6-2006

6-2006----- 24 --- US killed in Iraq :grr: :grr:

Let's hope it stays at that total FOREVER!!!!!!!!!

[xxqqqzme]

4. I have noticed that as well.

It hasn't changed since zarqawi was taken out. It's all better now - see no more troops killed.

I think they are saving it for a Friday dump.

[gratuitous]

5. Don't want to harsh Chimpy's Baghdad buzz, do you?

Think how distressing it would be for Stupidhead to have to answer a bunch of questions about 2,500 dead troops. Instead, by suddenly stopping the reports of folks dying, Chimpy can answer questions from an adoring press about what his favorite color is, or how much he likes ice cream.

Sure, you say, it's distressing for the families of the dead, but their grief will be with them the rest of their lives. They can wait a few days to get started on it, dontcha think? What's important right now is that Bush doesn't have to answer a bunch of questions about some arbitrary milestone number of military dead.

[BOSSHOG]

6. More people die in car wrecks and besides they are volunteers

Get with the program. "Support" the troops like flag waving "conservatives" do. Hell, those kids would die someday anyway. Dontcha get "conservative" logic?

[okieinpain]

9. hey don't forget smoking.....

[Ezlivin]

21. Damn right, BossHog. More people die in autos each month than died in 9/11

That's why our government has declared war on this form of transportation that is robbing so many of their lives.

Uh, wait a second. Those lives aren't that important because there is no political gain and only corporate harm could come from pursuing such a citizen-friendly course of action.

But over 5,800 people die each month because of air pollution. That's why our government has declared war....

Did Bush mean to say "Make the pyre higher"?

[unhappycamper]

7. There's a coupla DUers running the icasualties.org site.

If it gets reported anywhere they pick it up and post the story in the daily blog on the right of this page.

[bananas]

8. Who are they?

You'd think they'd have something to say about it.

[MissWaverly]

10. has the number starting counting down like the electronic votes

2497, 2496, 2495, 2494....

[pdxmom]

11. I check it every day in my paper and noticed that on Tuesday, it said

2499, according to the AP, and then today, it said 2497. Sounds like someone is either playing with numbers or else there's been a gigantic scientific breakthrough that the Bush administration is not interested in releasing.

[stevedeshazer]

12. Bingo

You can't tell me that no American soldiers have died since Sunday. It's already Thursday in Iraq.

[IndianaGreen]

13. This is what has been going on in Iraq during Bush's Zarqawi victory laps

From Iraq Coalition Casualties website: http://icasualties.org/oif/

06/14/06 Huntsville Center contractor employees killed in Iraq identified (PDF)

Wayne Shultz, 34, from Hervey Bay, Australia; and Penaia Vakaotia, 32, from Suva, Fiji; Mikaele Banidawa, 46, from Yalalevu, Fiji; and Vilisoni Guana, 43, from Ono-I-Lau, Fiji, were killed when the vehicle they were riding in was struck...

06/14/06 Ananova: Briton killed in Iraq blast

A security guard has been killed and another person injured following an explosion in Iraq. Married father-of-two Kenneth Clarke, 39, of Gilwern, near Abergavenny, south Wales, died following the blast on Sunday, a friend said.

06/14/06 UPI: Insurgents kill pro-U.S. Iraqi journalist

Iraqi insurgents in a car gunned down an Iraqi journalist who they had warned against publishing alleged pro-U.S. coalition in his newspaper. Fallujah police Lt. Mohammed Ali said the shooting occurred Tuesday night, and targeted Ibrahim Seneid

06/14/06 CARMARTHENJOURNAL: 'HOW AM I STILL ALIVE?'

Trooper Barrie "Baz" Evans, aged 26, from Park Hall, was sitting in the passenger seat of an armoured Land Rover when a bomb tore through the vehicle. The driver and a second solider were killed in the blast. A third was seriously injured

06/14/06 AP: Japan may keep its troops in Iraq longer

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said Wednesday that Japan may not pull its noncombat troops from Iraq until after he is scheduled to step down in September.

06/14/06 AP: Followers of Shiite cleric protest Bush's visit to Iraq

Some 2,000 followers of a radical Shiite cleric staged a noisy demonstration Wednesday in Baghdad to protest the surprise visit to Iraq by President Bush.

06/14/06 Reuters: Police kill suicide bomber

Police killed a suicide bomber when he tried to detonate his car near a police checkpoint 15 km (8 miles) southwest of the northern city of Kirkuk, police said.

06/14/06 Sapa-AFP: Top aide to al-Qaeda leader slain in raid

A man the Iraqi army described on Wednesday as a top aide of slain al-Qaeda leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has been killed in a raid on the same village where the militant chief was bombed to death last week.

06/14/06 KUNA: Iraqi police officer injured in booby-trapped car explosion

An Iraqi police officer was injured when a booby-trapped vehicle blew up targeting a passing police patrol in the center of Kirkuk in northern Iraq, an Interior ministry source said.

06/14/06 AFP: Missing Lebanese businessmen held by police in Iraq

Two Lebanese businessmen, initially feared kidnapped after they were snatched by armed men in Baghdad last week, are in fact being held in Iraqi police custody, an official source said.

06/14/06 Reuters: Car bomb kills two in Baghdad

In northern Baghdad, a car bomb targeting a police patrol killed two people and wounded seven. A Reuters photographer who was 10 meters (yards) from the blast saw a man and a teenager burning amid wreckage after the bomb caused a big fireball.

06/14/06 RFE: Baghdad Under Tighter Security Regime

Thousands of Iraqi and U.S. troops are taking part in a new security crackdown in Baghdad today. ome 40,000 security forces, both Iraqi and coalition, are being deployed in Baghdad as part of the measures, known as "Operation Forward Together."

06/14/06 AFP: Iraqi troops, insurgents clash in Baghdad's Sunni bastion

Clashes broke out between insurgents and Iraqi troops in Baghdad's Sunni neighborhood of Adhamiyah Wednesday amid a massive security crackdown on the capital ordered by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.

06/14/06 Reuters: Crowd attacks Iranian consulate in Iraq's Basra

A crowd of demonstrators attacked Iran's consulate in the Iraqi city of Basra on Wednesday, setting fire to a reception area of the building, Reuters television footage showed.

06/13/06 AFP: Two policemen killed in Karbala

In Karbala, gunmen shot dead a police captain and another policeman.

06/13/06 AFP: Bomb kills four civilians and one policeman in Baquba

Four civilians, including a two-year-old child, and a policemen were killed in a series of attacks in Baquba, northeast of Baghdad.

06/13/06 AFP: Bomb kills four civilians in Samarra

A bomb targeting a police patrol in the Samarra market missed its target but killed four civilians and injured seven.

06/13/06 AFP: Three policemen killed in Balad Ruz

Gunmen killed three policemen and wounded three others in Balad Ruz, southeast of Baquba, while a man distributing newspapers in Fallujah was shot dead by gunmen.

[lastliberalintexas]

20. All those unfortunate souls killed, but no soldiers?

Yeah, that's believable.

Though I do fervently wish that the toll was permanently stuck on 2497 and that we wouldn't lose anymore people (on all sides) in this horrible war.. :(

[elehhhhna]

14. fukkin biden said "two more dead today" YESTERDAY

[Wrinkle_In_Time]

15. Hey Brundle Dude, what site are you monitoring for the count?

Gotta link? It might be interesting to continue monitoring their updates against other sites and compare it to the timing of these political photo ops.

Good catch, by the way! :thumbsup:

[cal04]

16. US death toll in Iraq nears 2500

THE US military death toll in Iraq neared 2,500 today, moving like a shadow behind President George W Bush's efforts to gain momentum from a burst of good news from the war-torn country.

The Pentagon put the death toll as of today at 2,499 US service members, of whom 1,971 were killed in action.

"Each and every loss is felt hard by our nation, by the units from which those individuals come, and certainly mostly by their families," said Brigadier General Carter Ham, deputy director of the Joint Staff for regional operations.

"Rather than focus on an aggregate number I think it is more important for us to remember that there are individuals in that aggregate number, and those individuals are those to whom we should feel very, very grateful."

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,19479228-23109,00.html

[LynnTheDem]

17. ICCC is working on the problem...

I don't wanna get into it right now on the problem, but the died in vain are as important, and not forgotten to us, as ever.

[DocSavage]

18. Who

do you suggest take one for the team and make it 2500? I am sure that people have friends that are over there that would be willing to make the sacrifice so some here could have a political statement to make. Whose parents on your street are you willing to hurt. How about Lynns husband, he is in the Army, is she willing to take one for the team?

To post here hoping that more members of the military will be killed so you have a political point is just plain wrong. How come you were not all hopping that more people died in New Orleans so you could ridicule Bush on that? There is no difference you know.

Threads like these are going to be the downfall of the "progressive" movement, because to many this is just a blatant throwing away of American lives to fit your political agenda.

And before the mods I am sure delete this post and ban me for I really do not know what, other than "offending" other posters on this thread, I hope that the family of the 2500th american serviceman gets a copy of this thread so their family can respond to your blood lust.

[coalition_unwilling]

22. I wasn't picking up "blood lust" from this thread, more like

skepticism\anger that accurate reporting of U.S. KIA\WIA is being subordinated to political purposes by BFEE.

Here was Tony Snow's take on the 2500 number:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2680587

[bluedog]

19. try this site

http://icasualties.org/oif/

[bananas]

23. I checked yesterday - they were stuck at 2497 nt