3,000

[rodeodance]

the rest is subtitle, ........

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/01/01/MNG3CNB9401.DTL

3,000
U.S. toll hits milestone -- troops push on as violence shows no sign of slowing

Phil Sands, Nizar Latif, Chronicle Foreign Service

Monday, January 1, 2007

Timeline of U.S. military involvement in Iraq. Chronicle ... Iraq war dead from California. Chronicle Graphic

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(01-01) 04:00 PST Baghdad -- On the final day of a bloody year in Iraq, the toll for U.S. troops reached a new and somber milestone Sunday -- 3,000 dead.

The Pentagon announced the death of Spc. Dustin Donica, 22, of Spring, Texas, who was killed Thursday by small arms fire in Baghdad. Also Sunday, the U.S. military said a roadside bomb the day before killed an American soldier and wounded two in Baghdad.

Those casualties bring to at least 3,000 the number of U.S. military deaths in Iraq since the 2003 invasion, according to an Associated Press count, with 820 U.S. military personnel killed in 2006. At least 111 of those deaths were reported in December, the deadliest month of the year.

The troops serving in Iraq are grimly aware of the rising death toll, but many adopt the kind of tough, unsentimental attitude expressed by Army medic Michael Curveil, a 26-year-old on his second deployment in Iraq.

"Honestly, it's not something that keeps me awake at night," he said. "We've lost 3,000, but really that's not too much, in terms of a war. I don't want to sound hard-hearted, but it's not. Perhaps in my job, you just switch off to this stuff. ... I'm more concerned about the number of wounded -- we've had a lot of guys wounded, tens of thousands."

[LynnTheDem]

1. How much dead is too much dead, Curveil, for an illegal invasion

based on a politician's pile of bullshit?

Just wondering.