Daily U.S. Casualties 8/3/2004

[yelladawg]

Daily U.S. Casualties 8/3/2004

As of Monday, 912 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq in March 2003, according to the Defense Department. Of those, 677 died as a result of hostile action and 235 died of nonhostile causes.

The British military has reported 60 deaths; Italy, 18; Spain, eight; Poland, seven; Bulgaria, six; Ukraine, four; Slovakia, three; Thailand, two; Denmark, El Salvador, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia and the Netherlands have reported one death each.

Since May 1, 2003, when President Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 774 U.S. soldiers have died -- 568 as a result of hostile action and 206 of nonhostile causes, according to the Defense Department on Monday.

The latest deaths reported by the military:

A U.S. Marine was killed Tuesday in Anbar province.

[senseandsensibility]

1. These deaths

have largely disappeared from the media, and "journalists" like Stephanopolus claim that Iraq is stabilized. What will they do when the total reaches 1000? I can see them ignoring even that if Rove gave them the nod. What a disgusting waste of human life.

[Inland]

2. Geez, the rate of KIA is increasing

We are really counting them off now.

[LynnTheDem]

3. It's higher than that

As of now it's 920 US dead, 61 UK, 61 other.

In the past 2.5 days this month the death average is 2.67/day; 8 US troops dead.

http://icasualties.org/oif/

[LynnTheDem]

4. Another "911"...

That's 1042 dead soldiers so far for bush's invasion of a nation that never had anything to do with the 911 attacks.

2752 people died in 911 (some 500 of whom weren't American, so as far as the RWWs are concerned actually only 2200 people were killed--non-Americans not being real people--so it's funny how RWWs instead like to jack up the 911 death toll number).

We've already lost ALMOST HALF that amount of people (yes, soldiers are people too) in Iraq.

And that's of course totally ignoring the equivalent of dozens of 911's we've perpetrated so far on the Iraqis.