U.S. Troops Fear Mounting Casualties

[Barrett808]

U.S. Troops Fear Mounting Casualties
By PAUL GARWOOD, Associated Press Writer

BAQOUBA, Iraq - An insurgency that just won't die is leaving American troops in the field wondering if they are going to be next.

"Is it likely we will lose somebody else? Yes, it is," said Capt. Thomas H. Johnson Jr., who leads one of the coalition's most battle-scarred units, based in Baghdad. "But all we can do is be as ready as possible."

Johnson's 3rd Brigade soldiers, more than any others in the U.S. 1st Infantry Division, know all about being prepared for battle; their casualty rate is above 25 percent, including six deaths since April.

The death toll of U.S. troops killed in Iraq since the war began last year reached 900 early Wednesday when another 1st Infantry Division soldier was killed. His Bradley fighting vehicle struck a roadside bomb in Duluiyah, 45 miles north of Baghdad.

His death followed those of two Marines and two soldiers, announced Tuesday by the military.

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040721/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_in_the_line_of_fire&cid=540&ncid=1480

[FlemingsGhost]

1. Who could've possibly known airborne flowers were so deadly?

:shrug:

1000 KIA by November

[catmandu57]

3. My guess is very soon

at the present rate it will only take another 46 days to reach 1000. The thing is 1000 isn't a magic number, I thought that 500 would wake people up, it didn't. I don't expect anymore from this milestone.

[Minstrel Boy]

4. Should reach 1000 during the GOP convention.

And few will notice, and fewer will care.

[gasperc]

6. over 1000 coalition of the willing have perished in Iraq

but the dumbing down of the actual #'s continues, and remember nearly 5000 wounded and many very seriously, amputated, blind, etc., permanently disabled

[Barrett808]

9. Using the Ed Stephan's graph, estimate 1000 in the Aug 15 - Sep 15 range

http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/USfatalities.html

[Barkley]

18. Fantastic Graphics!

:kick:

[leftchick]

2. this is a sad article....

they still want to "Bring Democracy" to Iraq by force

:(

[The_Casual_Observer]

5. 25% Casualty rate

I would suggest that all of our patriotic, brave and god fearing Americans who comment about DU people on other sites sign up for a tour with the 3rd Brigade and joint the cause to bring chimp's democracy to Iraq. I would bet that they wouldn't turn you away.

This God damn mess has turned out precisely as expected! the latest reports indicate that the US soldiers are in fact hold up in isolated forts that they venture out of at their own peril, and large population centers can't even be approached. Now they have even figured out how to open up bradleys like a can opener. It has taken a little longer than Scott Ritter predicted, but the US will end up getting it's ass kicked out of Iraq.

[MichiganVote]

7. And where oh where

are the other coalition members? How come our numbers are so high while their's are so low? Guarding the latrines are they?

[Jacobin]

8. Other countries in the "coalition?"

The casualties appear to be proportionate to the number of troops. We have about 135,000, Britain I think 15,000 or so.

The other countries have "fig leaf" participation, a few dozen or a few hundred just so Smirky could claim that we have a "coalition" when in fact they are bribed and paid for troops, (other than Britains).

Why should any of them be put at risk, including our own. It was a stupid, boneheaded idea, and it will never ever work. They won't stop shooting until the foreign invaders have been driven out.

The British learned this (and should have remembered) in 1920 when their occupation of the country was expelled causing tens of thousands of British deaths.

[MichiganVote]

14. How

does one determine whether or not the "casualties" are proportionate?

[lucky777]

19. Coalition of the Killing

The whole coalition thing was total bullshit from the start. We strongarmed a few 'nobody' countries to tag along on this misadventure. It's not their fight, so I don't blame them for not taking hits as bad as we are.

[Wright Patman]

10. Any of the soldiers

who still can't see through this and how they've been misused and abused may well be too stupid to go on living.

What is really sad is that this will continue no matter which puppet of the Anglo-American financial empire is elected in November.

[Tellurian]

20. No, I don't believe that at all..

Kerry is genuinely concered...He's been there and done that..
Iraq has most definitely turned into the next Vietnam..
If our soldiers can hold out a little longer..they will be coming home.

[lovuian]

11. I thought everything was going to be Great with the New Iraq Gov

Its getting Worse....

I don't know if America knows this but the Iraqis are at war with us

[gratuitous]

13. Yeah, what's up with that?

Aren't all the troops, like, back home and stuff?

[ilovenicepeople]

21. The local 6 o'clock news ran a story on IRAQ

it was one of those feel good no war here pieces about the booming real estate market there and all the reconstruction jobs for the locals.It seems like the conflict ended after the glandover took place.It has to be true our Canadian media doesn't lie(they deceive):hi:

[Ernesto]

12. Just Monday (2 days ago)

They brought rummy out of cold storage to say "now that things have calmed down in Iraq"..... Yeah right! The "peace president" ("war president" line ain't working anymore) has solved all the Iraqi problems that HE created...... AND these assholes call Kerry a "flip flopper"!

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

15. Chris Matthews on Hardball said 900 dead was wrong

I believe tonight on his show he said the number had to revised downward to 896. I don't know where the twit got that information.

[mistertrickster]

16. This is the site I use to check casualties in Iraq--

<http://www.antiwar.com/casualties/>

They're showing 901.

[Zorra]

17. Bu$h's war. And his alone. His pResidential order. Based on lies.

War criminal.