U.S. deaths in Iraq, war on terror surpass 9/11 toll

[ProSense]

U.S. deaths in Iraq, war on terror surpass 9/11 toll

POSTED: 1855 GMT (0255 HKT), September 3, 2006

(CNN) -- As the fifth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attack on the United States approaches, another somber benchmark has just been passed.

The announcement Sunday of four more U.S. military deaths in Iraq raises the death toll to 2,974 for U.S. military service members in Iraq and in what the Bush administration calls the war on terror.

The 9/11 attack killed 2,973 people, including Americans and foreign nationals but excluding the terrorists. The 9/11 death toll was calculated by CNN.

The comparison between fatalities in the war on terror and 9/11 was drawn last month by Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, during testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee.

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On March 20, 2003, the United States invaded Iraq to oust the Saddam Hussein regime, which, the Bush administration said, harbored and pursued weapons of mass destruction -- munitions that were never found. While the Hussein regime was swiftly defeated, an insurgency emerged that has proved harder to handle for the U.S.-led coalition.

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http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/09/03/death.toll

[NYC]

1. Holiday weekend.

Will people notice?

[OwnedByFerrets]

2. I knew the day would come

but its still hard to swallow. Who is the greater criminal, monkeyboy or bin laden? I think you know the answer.

[Silent3]

3. And that's not counting...

...all the tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis killed, and all of the people maimed and paralyzed and blinded for the rest of their lives.

[ProSense]

5. Every month in Iraq

is equivalent to 9/11 in deaths.

[gratuitous]

4. Just another number, right Tony Snow?

I mean, after all, it's not like it's anyone who was important to the White House has been killed. Ho hum. Closing in on 3,000 KIA already? La de da, la de da. No, there really isn't anything the White House has to say about it.

[AliceWonderland]

6. Wow, thank god we don't have to count Iraqis, huh?

Gosh, that would be tough, if they were people and we had to count them too.

Whew.