U.S. Military Deaths in Iraq - 810 Dead - 4,882 wounded

[NNN0LHI]

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBYM9EYZUD.html

As of Wednesday, June 2, 810 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq in March 2003, according to the Defense Department. Of those, 594 died as a result of hostile action and 216 died of non-hostile causes. snip

Since May 1, 2003, when President Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 672 U.S. soldiers have died - 485 as a result of hostile action and 187 of non-hostile causes, according to the military's numbers as of Wednesday.

Since the start of military operations, 4,882 U.S. service members have been wounded in hostile action, according to the Defense Department's weekly tally.

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[saigon68]

1. LUNAVILLE HAS 817 DEAD

The supply of photos of the dead has almost dried up. Local net newspapers are not posting them like they used to. The death notices are being consigned to page 16 of the entertainment section. If at all.

[Massacure]

2. Death notices in entertainment section?

Is it me, or does something seem wrong with that?

[m-jean03]

3. Could be wrong, but I think

this was just a little of Saigon's sarcasm. Edit-
perfectly justified sarcasm that is practically truth...

[saigon68]

7. Sorry </sarcasm>

[m-jean03]

9. See your PMs --

Confusion on my part, hope I did no wrong. ..

[NickB79]

4. It now lists 818

And 4783+ wounded. Just sick.

[alcuno]

5. The # of wounded in hostile action seems to have skyrocketed.

Back in February, I recall the number being in the low 2000's.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

6. Read an article yesterday that one hospital in Germany has seen...

...7,000 wounded alone:

<http://www.counterbias.com/043.html>

Excerpt:

"Another subject conservatives do not talk about is the number of injured U.S. soldiers. It’s not a figure that’s mentioned often, even by the 'liberal' media, due to the fact that the data is so hard to find. In today’s European Stars and Stripes, the number of injured troops treated at Landstuhl hospital in German was listed at over 7,000. That’s just the one hospital.


The NeoCons are lying about our casualties in the Middle East. Why else would they stop retirements, draw up still more National Guard troops, and fund the Selective Service System to initiate the draft in mid-2005?

[llmart]

8. Will all of you people please stop.....

bothering your beautiful little minds over the numbers of dead soldiers? Geez, haven't you got some roses to smell or something? Can't you even see all the "good" we've done in Iraq? What's a couple of hundred dead soldiers, and thousands wounded without limbs or eyes,etc. when you know the oil is flowing?

I think I'll go back to bed now.

[progressivebydesign]

10. You're right.. As Bush said, 'at least the oil production is okay'. N/T

[truthspeaker]

11. someone should email these figures to Wolfowitz every day

He obviously has trouble keeping track.