1822, that is 12 more than yesterday. UNACCEPTABLE!!

[uppityperson]

When I last looked 12:30 pm yesterday I was appalled at there being 1806 USA dead in the Iraq occupation. Now, 2 days later, I check on to find 12 more dead and war drums banging towards Iran. Is this administration fucking nuts? I ordinarily do not use profanity much in my daily life, being a middle aged respectable female and all, but it seems to suit these bozos. What the fuck do they think they are doing? This is unacceptable. Time to take to the streets. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4252119 in WA, DC. Look and plan and get out there. This is unacceptable and they want to do it all over in Iran. Even if they didn't want to invade Iran too, this is totally unacceptable. Support the troops, bring them home NOW.

Date Total Name Place of Death - Province Cause of Death
03-Aug-2005 14 | US: 14 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Haditha (2 km S of) - Anbar Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Haditha (2 km S of) - Anbar Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Haditha (2 km S of) - Anbar Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Haditha (2 km S of) - Anbar Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Haditha (2 km S of) - Anbar Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Haditha (2 km S of) - Anbar Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Haditha (2 km S of) - Anbar Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Haditha (2 km S of) - Anbar Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Haditha (2 km S of) - Anbar Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Haditha (2 km S of) - Anbar Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Haditha (2 km S of) - Anbar Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Haditha (2 km S of) - Anbar Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Haditha (2 km S of) - Anbar Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Haditha (2 km S of) - Anbar Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack

02-Aug-2005 1 | US: 1 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Staff Sergeant James McNaughton Camp Victory - Baghdad Hostile - hostile fire - sniper

01-Aug-2005 8 | US: 8 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Al Bu Hardan (nr. Syrian border) - Anbar Hostile - hostile fire - car bomb
US Sergeant James R. Graham III Hit (near) - Anbar Hostile - hostile fire - suicide car bomb
US Lance Corporal Roger D. Castleberry Jr. Haditha (near) - Anbar Hostile - hostile fire
US Sergeant David J. Coullard Haditha (near) - Anbar Hostile - hostile fire
US Lance Corporal Daniel Nathan Deyarmin Jr. Haditha (near) - Anbar Hostile - hostile fire
US Corporal Jeffrey A. Boskovitch Haditha (near) - Anbar Hostile - hostile fire
US Lance Corporal Brian P. Montgomery Haditha (near) - Anbar Hostile - hostile fire
US Sergeant Nathaniel S. Rock Haditha (near) - Anbar Hostile - hostile fire
Total 23 | US: 23 | UK: 0 | Other: 0

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[ohio_liberal]

1. Somebody remind me

What did US deaths average per day in Vietnam?

[lvx35]

2. 15 per day?

I lasted 9 years, right? So that's 50,000 / (9 * 365)

[uppityperson]

3. Here are some overall numbers and links. Maybe you can make sense

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1114-01.htm for an article from 2003 when USA soldier deaths were at 397.

Published on Friday, November 14, 2003 by Reuters
US War Dead in Iraq Exceeds Early Vietnam Years
by David Morgan
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A Reuters analysis of Defense Department statistics showed on Thursday that the Vietnam War, which the Army says officially began on Dec. 11, 1961, produced a combined 392 fatal casualties from 1962 through 1964, when American troop levels in Indochina stood at just over 17,000.
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By comparison, a roadside bomb attack that killed a soldier in Baghdad on Wednesday brought to 397 the tally of American dead in Iraq, where U.S. forces number about 130,000 troops -- the same number reached in Vietnam by October 1965.
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Vietnam casualties, which amounted to 25 deaths from 1956 through 1961, climbed to 53 in 1962, 123 in 1963 and 216 in 1964, Pentagon statistics show. At the time, the U.S. presence in Vietnam consisted mainly of military advisers. President John F. Kennedy increased their number from about 960 in 1961 to show Washington's commitment to containing communism.

But not until 1965, after Congress had approved the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, did Washington begin its massive escalation of the war effort. With a huge influx of soldiers, casualties in Vietnam soared to 1,926 in 1965 and peaked at 16,869 in 1968, the year of the Tet Offensive, data show.
more at link.

Wikipedia gives this number, but can't tell what the time period is, maybe you can.

Of the Americans, 58,226 were killed in action or classified as missing in action. A further 153,303 Americans were wounded to give total casualties of 211,529. The United States Army took the majority of the casualties with 38,179 killed and 96,802 wounded; the Marine Corps lost 14,836 killed and 51,392 wounded; the Navy 2,556 and 4,178; with the Air Force suffering the lowest casualties both in numbers and percentage terms with 2,580 killed and 931 wounded.

[ohio_liberal]

4. That was a lot to wrap the ol' brain around

I came up with 17.72 per day. I rather think the only thing keeping Iraq numbers so much lower is better armor than Vietnam, and advanced medicine. And a smaller troop level.