A Daily Look at U.S. Iraq Military Deaths

[maddezmom]

As of Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2004, at least 1,255 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq (news - web sites) war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. At least 984 died as a result of hostile action, the Defense Department said. The figures include three military civilians._/b}


The British military has reported 74 deaths; Italy, 19; Poland, 13; Spain, 11; Ukraine, nine; Bulgaria, seven; Slovakia, three; Estonia, Thailand and the Netherlands, two each; and Denmark, El Salvador (news - web sites), Hungary and Latvia have reported one death each.


Since May 1, 2003, when President Bush (news - web sites) declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 1,117 U.S. military members have died, according to AP's count. That includes at least 875 deaths resulting from hostile action, according to the military's numbers.


Since the start of U.S. military operations in Iraq, 9,552 U.S. service members have been wounded in hostile action, according to the Defense Department's weekly tally.


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more: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041201/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_us_deaths&cid=540&ncid=1480

OK...hadn't heard this term before: Military Civilian??

[Malva Zebrina]

1. Few of the Bush supporters are paying any attention

and if they are, they perceive this as brave warriors who are fighting for our "freedom" or who have died, getting "them" before they get us.

I am at the edge when it comes to reflecting upon these needless deaths and am shutting down in order to save myself the pain and anxiety and the sleepless nights thinking about the loss of human life, all because of an insane man that was actually elected to continue on with this useless and needless slaughter, mayhem and death, while he is hosting an inaugural ball that will cost 60 million dollars.

They will wear boots with their tux and black tie events and drink and be merry in the knowledge that a serial killer, a murderer, a treasonous lier, is their "president"

[Rebel_with_a_cause]

2. According to this chart, we surpassed April's high

The media kept saying we'd tied it.

http://icasualties.org/oif/

Plan on more high casualties in March, when the unit rotation begins.

[NYC]

3. 141 died in the month of November.

That's 4.7 deaths per day.