Daily U.S. Military Deaths in Iraq - 494 U.S. service members have died

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040109/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_us_deaths&cid=540&ncid=1480

As of Friday, Jan. 9, 494 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq (news - web sites), according to the Defense Department. Of those, 342 died as a result of hostile action and 152 died of non-hostile causes, the department said. snip

Since May 1, when President Bush (news - web sites) declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 356 U.S. soldiers have died — 227 as a result of hostile action and 129 of non-hostile causes, according to the Defense Department's figures.

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1. IG brought up a point the other, but I couldn't find ya!

The point is, are we being told of the death count after one is seriously wounded and then die several weeks later? How does the pentagon count?

[NNN0LHI]

4. As far as I know AP does count those who die later from their wounds

AP may run a few days behind, but they do seem to be trying to keep an accurate count.

Don

[wuushew]

2. Wrong 496

http://www.antiwar.com/ewens/casualties.html

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Safety Warning on candy and flowers comming soon

they can have an explosive and deadly quality to them... just ask
Paul Wolfowitz

[ignatius]

5. May they all rest in peace and may Bush and his evil cabal

do a slow burn in hell.

[osaMABUSh]

6. 497 at cnn.com - 500 by SOTU?

CNN's site has the official count at 497
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/iraq/forces/casualties/

A macabre milestone but 500 might be the total on or before Shrub's SOTU (1/20/04). Will * get up there and tell us 500 Amercians have died but everything is going fine in Iraq?

Can't wait for the recap of last year's SOTU lies.

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. It will be over 500 by the SOTU

[DemoTex]

7. Don, did either of us think it would get this bad?

Really. We are into Vietnam redux, real big now. Real big. Too bad we cannot have coverage of the coffins coming into Dover.

[NNN0LHI]

8. I was worried it would be this bad. Also worried it will get much worse

Wonder what the Iraq War Memorial will look like? And how many names will be on it before we leave? Damn shame too, because we all new better.

Don

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. Well casualties are higher than the period of '62-64

and it is aproaching 1966 rapidly... and yes I hate this administration for this... we all knew this was going to happen.

[teryang]

9. "Non-hostile" fatalities more common

...than "non-hostile" wounded. The Orwellian breakdown is bogus.

[Mari333]

12. Living Hell

and these kids are in it.
My stepson called us from Fort Dix the other night..they have him on hold in New Jersey..about to be shipped to Ft Campbell, where he goes to Iraq or Afghanistan...we are hoping they might come to their senses and send him to Cuba, where, we know he might be safe, but we doubt it.
In the meantime, we dont know how to get a hold of him and the army hasnt paid his rent, which they are supposed to do, so we have to meet with his landlord and figure out what went wrong.
Bastards.
The body bags are ignored, folks, the coffins are ignored, and the US populace is willfully ignorant. If they wanted to know or care, they could.

[ignatius]

13. I wish the best for your stepson, may he stay safe and come

back to his family and loved ones soon.