A Look at U.S. Military Deaths in Iraq (Lest we forget)

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

As of Monday, Sept. 6, 990 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count based on Defense Department records and AP reporting from Iraq.

The Defense Department's most recent published count, as of Friday, Sept. 3, shows 976 U.S. service members dead. Of those, 730 died as a result of hostile action and 246 died of non-hostile causes.

The AP count of 990 includes five additional names released by the Defense Department plus nine fatalities since Friday who have not been identified.

The British military has reported 64 deaths; Italy, 18; Spain, 11; Poland, 10; Bulgaria, six; Ukraine, six; Slovakia, three; Thailand, two; and Denmark, El Salvador, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia and the Netherlands have reported one death each.

Since May 1, 2003, when President Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 838 U.S. soldiers have died - 621 as a result of hostile action and 217 of non-hostile causes, according to the military's numbers Friday. There was no update provided Monday because of Labor Day.
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http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/breaking_news/9595854.htm

[wrang_wrang]

1. Lest We Forget the True Victims of Bush's Iraq Misadventure

The IRAQI People:
http://www.iraqbodycount.net

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

4. Every bit as relevant if not more.

Last time I checked, it was near 12,000 Iraqi CIVILIANS dead.

And still not a single WMD.
And MORE terrorists gunning for anything US.

What the hell was the mission GWB spoke about on the carrier deck? To start WWIII?

[wrang_wrang]

6. For a dimwitted oil man from Texas

All those billions of barrels of Arab oil were just irresistable.

[RedSock]

8. well over 50,000

in "plan of attack," woodward says a pentagon spokesperson said 30,000 iraqis were killed in the first few weeks of the invasion alone.

who knows how high the total is now? 100,000?

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

9. Who's filling the mass graves now?

[osaMABUSh]

2. What if 1,000 dead comes on Sept. 11 ?

How would Rove spin that?

[MichiganVote]

3. Continuing work to do by this administration......yada, yada, yada

[wrang_wrang]

7. 1000 brave Americans gave their lives so we wouldn't face another 9/11

That Iraq had NOTHING to do with 9/11 doesn't matter.

[AlinPA]

5. All because Rove wanted to make Bush* the "wartime president". And

the side benefit of Halliburton's bottom line.