Postwar Iraq deaths pass numbers during combat (Mercury News)

[WillyT]

Hey mods, even though this says Oct. 28th, Google news has it posted as of 5 hours ago.

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BAGHDAD, Iraq - More U.S. soldiers have died in combat in Iraq since May 1, when President Bush declared an end to major combat operations, than died during main phase of the war, the U.S. military said on Tuesday.

The death toll is a milestone, graphically illustrating the extended character of a war that many Americans believed was nearly finished after just a few weeks of combat. With a stubborn insurgency that is becoming more sophisticated and deadly in its attacks, it's also a sobering reminder of the distance left to go in Iraq.

The 115th combat death occurred on Monday - 114 died prior to May 1 - during the wave of bombings in the Iraqi capital. A typically terse statement was issued on Tuesday by the Department of Defense:

"Sgt. Aubrey D. Bell, 33, of Tuskegee, Ala., was killed in action on Oct. 27 in Baghdad, Iraq. Bell was at the Al Bayra Police Station when his unit came under small arms fire and an improvised explosive device detonated at his location. Bell was assigned to the 214th Military Police Company, Alabama National Guard."

Similar brief statements are posted almost daily at the U.S.-led coalition's press information desk in the Iraqi capital.

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Link: http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/special_packages/iraq/7125647.htm

Mission accomplished, huh???

:mad:

[Spazito]

1. The use of the words "combat" and "war" as if they are different....

infuriates me. The definition of combat is: active fighting in a war.

The media is complicit in trying to infer they are different.

[teryang]

2. Absolutely correct!

It's a war. It never has been anything other than a war. Winning the peace and the end of major combat operations are all propaganda manipulation of the language.

[catmandu57]

3. This is enron and anderson accounting

or maybe I should say repuke accounting? Dead is dead and we passed that number a long fucking time ago, last summer it was a big deal then.
I'd like to use the time machine these fucks have, I could go back to 2000 and kick the news media in the ass.