Look at Iraq U.S. Military Deaths - 568 U.S. service members have died

[NNN0LHI]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040318/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_us_deaths&cid=540&ncid=1473

As of Thursday, March 18, 568 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq (news - web sites), according to the Department of Defense (news - web sites). Of those, 385 died as a result of hostile action and 183 died of non-hostile causes, the department said.

Since May 1, when President Bush (news - web sites) declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 430 U.S. soldiers have died — 270 as a result of hostile action and 160 of non-hostile causes, according to the military.

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[FloridaPat]

1. More lies. I wonder when the media is going to start printing

all the details. Seems they are not counting the folks who are wounded and die outside of Iraq. The number dead is about double.

[Streetdoc270]

2. The REAL count is 1000-1200 US Dead

The DoD figure only counts BATTLEFIELD deaths. If a soldier is taken to a hospital and later dies of his wounds that death is not counted toward the number of combat kills...

[alcuno]

3. I don't think that's true.

Please check out this website http://pigstye.net/iraq and you will find the names of soldiers who died in military hospitals in England, Germany, Kuwait, and the US. The most recent I can recall is Pfc Luis Moreno who died in England in January. It is a credit to medical personnel that so many who are badly injured ultimately survive.

[saigon68]

4. The numbers are totally manipulated

We need more parents matching in the streets

[alcuno]

5. I don't trust them at all, but I do trust lunaville and others.

Since my earlier post, there have been two deaths at Landstuhl; one on the 18th and one on the 19th. I can't support allegations that are not backed up with facts. The military deaths are being documented, in my opinion, quite accurately. Until I see evidence to the contrary, I will continue to challenge those who say the number is double that which has been reported.

[Just Me]

6. Fails to account for the "war on terror",...

,...which should include fatalities in Afganistan. Moreover, the military industrial complex intentionally avoids exposing all collateral damage to those injured, the families of both those killed and injured, the innocent Iraqis dead and maimed and the stems from all those. Basically, this administration is minimizing the very real repercussions and reverberations of their stingy, corporatist war on a people who did no harm to our citizens. Of course,...that is their intention.

[4dsc]

7. Our government coverup

Our government does not want people to think or see the death and destruction that is happening in Iraq.. They want us to believe this war is a bloodless and clean operation.. That is why we do not see our service personal coming home in flagged draped coffins.. That is why we do not get all the information on who's really been killed and when..

the less the public sees the less they will object..