HuffPost: Dark Milestone -- More American Deaths in Iraq than 9/11

[berni_mccoy]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rj-eskow/dark-milestone-more-ame_b_29234.html

While President Bush and other Republican politicians spent the day exploiting the memory of those we lost five years ago, the nation overlooked a grim milestone: More Americans have now died in Iraq than died on 9/11. Iraq didn't attack us on that day, and our misguided policy there has now taken more American lives than Al Qaeda.

Here are the numbers: 3,015 Americans have died in Iraq as of September 9. 2,666 of these were military deaths and 349 were civilians.

Good Lord, help deliver us from evil.

[intheflow]

1. K&R

Sadly recommending this report on dual national tragedies. :cry:

[tuvor]

2. When were the same number of Iraqi citizens killed?

[berni_mccoy]

3. Probably before the invasion... but repubs don't care

They only care about American lives... ("We're fighting them over there..." nonsense).

So when you throw a milestone like this in their face, they really start to wonder if it was worth it.

Over 100,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed in this illegal war... some who were tortured and raped.

[madokie]

5. and I question if they even care about our loses

We are at war for the sake of being at war.

[berni_mccoy]

4. .