A Look at U.S. Military Deaths in Iraq

[leftchick]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050624/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_us_deaths_1;_ylt=Am7xjnPG4A9mXBgLmjTvAbNX6GMA;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

As of Friday, June 24, 2005, at least 1,731 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. At least 1,333 died as a result of hostile action. The figures include five military civilians.

The AP count is two higher than the Defense Department's tally, last updated at 10 a.m. EDT Friday.

The British military has reported 89 deaths; Italy, 25; Ukraine, 18; Poland, 17; Spain, 11; Bulgaria, 13; Slovakia, three; Estonia, Thailand and the Netherlands, two each; and Denmark, El Salvador, Hungary, Kazakhstan and Latvia one death each.

Since May 1, 2003, when President Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 1,592 U.S. military members have died, according to AP's count. That includes at least 1,224 deaths resulting from hostile action, according to the military's numbers.


http://icasualties.org/oif/

icasualties has the total at 1735.

RIP... :(

[movonne]

1. Go in and vote this up...it was just a 1 ...

[fortyfeetunder]

2. Does this count the dead

who were injured in combat, then died of their wounds outside of the combat zone?

[Media_Lies_Daily]

3. Ah, don't confuse them.

[PermanentRevolution]

4. Nope.

I read (don't remember where) that the actual figure once you include wounded who died outside of Iraq is more like 7,000. Maybe I can find the article.

[LynnTheDem]

5. Yes.

It does include those who die in hospitals.

[LynnTheDem]

6. Yes it does.