U.S. Dead

[yelladawg]

U.S. Dead

As of Wednesday, 583 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq a year ago, according to the Department of Defense. Of those, 394 died as a result of hostile action and 189 died of nonhostile causes, the department said.

The British military has reported 58 deaths; Italy, 17; Spain, eight; Bulgaria, five; Ukraine, three; Thailand, two; Denmark, Estonia and Poland have reported one each.

Since May 1, when President Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 445 U.S. soldiers have died -- 279 as a result of hostile action and 166 of nonhostile causes, according to the military.

Since the start of military operations, 2,928 U.S. service members have been injured as a result of hostile action, according to the Defense Department. Nonhostile injured numbered 434.

No new deaths were reported by the military.

The latest identifications reported by family members:


Army Spc. Clint Matthews, 31, Bedford, Pa.; died Saturday from injuries he suffered in a vehicle accident; assigned to B Company, 18th Infantry, Schweinfurt, Germany.

[trumad]

1. One death is too many

for the frauds in the White House.

[papau]

2. "no new deaths" - yet BBC reports one new death yesterday.

guess he is not dead until the Pentagon says he is dead.

Funny - the BBC is reporting an AP story that US News media is not running.


BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A U.S. soldier died in a bomb blast north of Baghdad on Thursday amid warnings that attacks will likely increase with fewer than 100 days left before the coalition hands over sovereignty. A day earlier, insurgents attacked an American patrol, sparking a gunbattle that killed one U.S. soldier and three rebels.

A 1st Infantry Division soldier died and two were wounded when a homemade bomb exploded near Baqouba, the military said. The soldiers went to the area after Iraqi security notified them that a homemade bomb had been found. The two injured soldiers were in stable condition.

The fighting that killed one soldier occurred Wednesday near Taji, just north of the capital, said Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, the U.S. military's deputy director of operations. A U.S. soldier was also wounded.

On Tuesday, guerrillas attacked a patrol in the town of Hamam al-Alil, 210 miles north of Baghdad, wounding a U.S. soldier, Kimmitt said. Troops returned fire and killed one attackers.

[yelladawg]

5. the numbers don't add up

The number of wounded reported are far below the total number of Purple Hearts awarded in the past year.

[BlueEyedSon]

3. This official number does not include wounded who later died

of sustained injuries, after being removed from the battlefield.

[vi5]

4. Does anyone know what that number is?

I know a lot of us have complained about the fact but yet there must be a lot of families out there who have lost people who aren't included on that 583 number list.

Has anyone, anywhere tried to quantify this number?

[OneBlueSky]

6. on counting the war dead . . .

I propose that Democrats -- including Senator Kerry -- cease referring to the number of Americans killed in Iraq and substitute instead a phrase like "The thousands of human lives that have been lost in Iraq -- including almost 600 American servicemen and women -- and the many more thousands who have been maimed or injured" . . . this is a more accurate, more humane, and more compassionate way of describing the carnage that BushCo has perpetrated, and it will help clarify for voters the true cost of this illegal and immoral war . . .

"This machine kills fascists . . ." Woody Guthrie