Benchmarks: 20,000 U.S. troops injured

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http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=7903

By Martin Sieff / UPI

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 -- The trends in U.S. casualties suffered in Iraq through August continued into September.

The rate at which U.S. troops were being killed continued to slowly fall, but the rate at which injuries were suffered, including serious ones, continued to rise.

And since the beginning of this month, U.S. casualties in the war have passed another grim benchmark: More than 20,000 U.S. troops have now been wounded while serving in Iraq.

The total number of U.S. troops killed in Iraq through Tuesday, Sept. 18, since the start of operations to topple Saddam Hussein on March 19, 2003, was 2,678, according to official figures issued by the U.S. Department of Defense. Therefore, 33 U.S. soldiers were killed during the 18-day period from Sept, 1 through Sept. 18 at an average rate of 1.77 per day.

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1. All this bloodshed and maiming for WHAT?????

What has been accomplished by bushco's war??? IT is pathetic!!

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2. How can that many soldiers be replaced? I'll bet that more than 50%

didn't return to their units!

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3. our troops are being blown away

with no enemy to fight back against. bush says stay on this course.??

bush and rove are heading our country over a mile high cliff, and are telling us it will feel good when we hit the ground.

time to cut and run from the republicans.

Rove, Wolfowitz, Libby, Cheney, Bush, all remind me of people who would never be picked for dodge ball in high school. chickenshit punks we use to all beat up.