U.S. Military Deaths in Iraq - 837 U.S. service members have died

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http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBY3QW9RVD.html

As of Monday, June 21, 837 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq last year, according to the Defense Department. Of those, 617 died as a result of hostile action and 220 died of non-hostile causes. snip

The latest deaths reported by the military:

- Four U.S. soldiers were killed Monday in an attack in Ramadi.

- A U.S. soldier was killed Monday and seven others were wounded in a mortar attack in Baghdad.

- A U.S. soldier died Friday from wounds received during an attack near Buhritz.

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[I Lean Left]

1. Once it breaks one thousand

support will go into the toilet.

[JaySherman]

2. 846

[TahitiNut]

4. Yup.

[kainah]

3. they are resurrecting people

these numbers have become crazily erratic in the last month. As bad as they were earlier in the war. As some know, I've been keeping a sign board for my peace group of all the names & the four today have to push the formal numbers over 840. I'd say 840-845. FWIW, not much, the CNN crawler today gave a number in the 840s as well. Must have been before they got the resurrection memo from the Pentagon. I sure wish they'd tell me who is no longer dead.

[peterh]

5. hush….the repugs don’t want that publicized…..

oh the horror that some in America should be exposed to the price of this friggin’ folly….


Senate endorses ban on war dead coverage

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/06/21/war.dead.media.ap/

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate refused Monday to change a Pentagon policy banning media coverage of America's war dead as their remains arrive in flag-draped caskets.

"It's an outrage," said Sen. Frank Lautenberg, who had sponsored legislation to restore coverage of homecoming ceremonies at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware.

The New Jersey Democrat said the Pentagon directive that requires strict censorship, "issued just as the Iraq war began ... prevents the American people from seeing the truth about what's happening."
The 54-39 Senate negative vote came as the American death toll in Iraq reached 845 Monday.

[psychopomp]

6. RIP