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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJust askin' ... How many US troops died AFTER GWB hung the "Mission Accomplished" banner ...
... on the aircraft carrier and pranced around in his jet-fighter-pilot-hero flight-suit costume, complete with codpiece?
And that's after the aircraft carrier sailed in a huge circle for a full day so as to enable the POTUS to be videoed in the best possible cinematic lighting.
How many died after this Karl Rove produced GOPer theater?
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Just askin' ... How many US troops died AFTER GWB hung the "Mission Accomplished" banner ... (Original Post)
Bozita
May 2012
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lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)1. Since Keith went off the first Countdown, I've lost track.
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)2. Approximately 4314 from May 2003 to date. Then you add in approx. 31,671+ wounded, the suicides...
http://icasualties.org/Iraq/index.aspx
And then we needed to count the civilian casualties.
Fucking war criminal.
And then we needed to count the civilian casualties.
Fucking war criminal.
Lionessa
(3,894 posts)3. Just askin' ... why do Democrats make the same narrow foolishness when discussing war deaths
that the Republicans make in assuming only US deaths count.
Better to ask, how many people died in the Iraq Occupation since GWB declared Mission Accomplished. Surely we Democrats don't have to be so bigoted as to think we are so much better than Iraqis that they don't even count.