Day by Day, Death by Death - US troops.

[reprehensor]

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0412/harkavy.php

o the Bush administration's more ardent partisans, the death toll in Iraq is merely something to "be aware of," as one recently put it in a communiqué from Baghdad—an acceptable trade of human lives for regime change.

The United States has lost nearly 600 military personnel since the war began, a year ago last week. Of those, at least 437 have died since May 1, when President Bush landed on the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln and, under a banner reading "Mission Accomplished," declared major combat over. Some note that the list of names is roughly equivalent to what U.S. forces racked up in their first eight years in Vietnam, 1957-1964. But of those 401 deaths, 324 occurred in the final two years.

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May 2003
1
President George W. Bush, aboard the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln, declares, "Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed."
A private first class is killed when a riverbank collapses and his parked tank falls into the Euphrates River.

3
A sergeant is killed when he falls off a ladder and his M-4 rifle accidentally discharges.

4
A private first class is killed by a non-combat weapons discharge in Kuwait.

8
A private first class is killed by a sniper while directing traffic on a Baghdad bridge.


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[Stockholm]

1. How come there are not pictures of soldiers

returning to the US in a box? I know it is tasteless but I remember pictures like these from the Vietnam war era (I know there were many more back then..)

600 is still too many - someone in the US should use the numbers and for example light 600 candles etc in a manifestation. Maybe this would help people get an idea for just how many we are talking about.