Postwar U.S. Iraq Deaths Exceed Toll During War

[papau]

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/news/news-iraq-usa-deaths.html

Postwar U.S. Iraq Deaths Exceed Toll During War
By REUTERS


Filed at 10:01 a.m. ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More American troops have died since President Bush declared major combat operations over on May 1 than during the actual war, the Pentagon said on Tuesday.
U.S. Central Command said a U.S. soldier was killed on Tuesday in an attack with an improvised bomb on a military convoy near the town of Hamariyah.That brought to 139 the total number of American troops killed since May 1, including 62 from hostile fire and another 77 in non-hostile circumstances such as vehicle crashes and other types of accidents, the Pentagon said.

A total of 138 U.S. troops died from the start of the war in March until May 1. Since the beginning of the operation, 277 U.S. troops have died -- 178 in hostile fire and 99 in non-hostile incidents, the Pentagon said.

[Mari333]

1. Mediawhores will ignore Dover AF base

and every body or injured soldier that comes home.


In the meantime:

[Rainbowreflect]

2. Great pictures Mari333,

but come on it was not all golf for bush this month. Maybe include some pictures of his fund raising trips.

[TolstoyAndy]

3. Bring them home now

I am so sick of hearing Dem candidates and office-holders talk about
how "we have the responsibility to stay and make Iraq secure for its people".

We have to the get the :grr: out of there right now, yesterday as a matter of fact.

Now, I am not in favor of just getting outand leaving Iraq in the state to which we have reduced it.

But we are spending a billion a week, plus getting our people killed (and continuing to kill Iraqis almost indiscriminately).

How about we just leave, and give them the money we were going to have to spend for our military fetish?

What's that? Then there's no guarantee Halliburton's and Bechtel's and etc's contracts would be honored?

Ahhh, now I :dunce: see! How naive am I?

[styersc]

4. The war may not have been about oil...

...but oil is absolutely the reason that we can't just pack up and leave. The dimwits may still believe that we are there to secure the blessings of liberty for the Iraqis but any thinking person knows that we are there for the black gold.

[wtmusic]

6. WADR

Media, whores though they may be, are not granted access to tape coffin unloadings at Dover.

[wtmusic]

5. Both AP and Reuters

deserve an email for using the word 'postwar' (even * backtracked from that one)

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I don't recall any treaty being signed. The Iraqis are now fighting the war on their terms and guess what? We're losing.

[TolstoyAndy]

8. Dear Editors,

Please refrain from describing today's Iraq as "postwar",
as in this headline: "Postwar U.S. Iraq Deaths Exceed Toll During War"

I do have some suggestions for how to stick more closely to the truth, however.

Perhaps "post-invasion", or "pre-quagmire", or
"pre-acknowledgement of the Bush cabal's impeachable lying"
might be better ways to describe those heady days when only uniformed
people were shooting at us, we weren't talking about 2-year tours of duty,and the civilian death count was more in the 2000 range.

Remember back then? It was almost as innocent as September 10th.

Sincerely yours,

:grr:

[Atlant]

7. The Times has a new led on the story...

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/26/international/worldspecial/26CND-IRAQ.html?ex=1062561600&

Postwar Deaths of U.S. Troops
in Iraq Exceeds Combat Toll

By TERENCE NEILAN

The number of United States soldiers who have died in Iraq since
May 1, when President Bush declared the end of major combat there, has
surpassed the number of American deaths in the first stage of the war,
which began on March 19.

A total of 141 United States soldiers have died from May 1 to today,
compared with 137 from March 19 to April 30, according to a spokesman
at Central Command at McDill Air Force Base in Florida.

Of the total since May 1, 63 Americans were killed in action and 78
died in nonhostile incidents, the spokesman, Lieut. Ryan Fitzgerald,
said.

The total number of American deaths since March 19 are 175 killed in
action and 103 from nonhostile action, Lieutenant Fitzgerald added.

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[Atlant]

9. Notie the "when ... Bus declared the end of MAJOR combat" spin! (NT)