U.S. Iraq Military Deaths - 1,064 members of the U.S. military have died

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/iraq_us_deaths

As of Thursday, Oct. 7, 2004, 1,064 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq (news - web sites) war in March 2003, according to the Defense Department. Of those, 809 died as a result of hostile action and 255 died of non-hostile causes. The figures include three military civilians.

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[Erika]

1. Please post this site

The site is www.icasualties.org. Bushies hate it. It shows the gruesome deaths and injuries in Bush's war.

[saigon68]

2. Its 1068 according to I casualties

The last identified Victim was an Illinois woman with a 6 year old child

http://week.com/morenews/morenews-read.asp?n=5885

An east-central Illinois woman is among the latest American soldier casualties overseas.

Specialist Jessica Cawvey, originally of Mahomet, was killed and two others were seriously injured Wednesday when a roadside bomb went off near the convoy. Cawvey served with the 1544th Transportation Company based in Paris, Illinois.

She leaves behind a six-year-old daughter

[VLC98]

3. How sad.

It appears this poor woman, who was a Mom at 15, took the risk of joining the NG in order to go to college and thanks to awol she's dead. RIP Jessica.

[saigon68]

4. Very sad--- the very poor-- Propping up the millionaires

And Evil thugs like the Bush Criminals and the NeoCons.

[Iceburg]

6. "10 Minutes from Normal" marks another casualty of bush's war

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... Cawvey had been living in Normal before her deployment. Cawvey was a junior accounting major at Illinois State University. ISU professor Joyce Ostrosky says Cawvey had to leave school before the end of the fall semester when she was called up last year. She described Cawvey as an excellent student who was going to do great things.
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When Karen Hughes once heard a train conductor announce "10 minutes from Normal," she thought the phrase might make an intriguing book title. Sadly, the town of Normal is no longer a bookmark glorifying this administrations policy; Normal has just become the 1068th gravestone reminder of the casualties marking the Bush Death Trail.

[davhill]

7. Very Interesting Map

It appears that the Blue states are bearing the greatest burden.

[Iceburg]

11. The map is from the "iraq Coalition Casualty Count" site ...

http://icasualties.org/oif/

[donkeyotay]

5. 81 died in September

There were 81 American soldiers killed in Iraq in September.

The day that theoretically marks 1000 American soldiers killed is September 8th. So, 67 were killed in September after the 8th. Fourteen were killed in the first week of September. Eight died in Fallujah on the day marking the "milestone."

Yeah, it’s been on all the news. First they moved the war down to the ticker that scrolls across the bottom of the screen. Then they just forgot all about it.

[saigon68]

9. I'M not about to forget

And neither are a lot of us here.

I love the "troop supporters" who come here with the macho shit of



"kick their ass and steal their gas"


Cretins

They have no idea what war is all about.

[snippy]

8. I am pleased with the progress in Iraq. Bring 'em on.

BUSH DISARMED THIS IRAQI

[Iceburg]

12. More "Surgical" strikes ... I feel ill (again)

[Auntie Bush]

10. I feel so sorry for all those families...What a crime! Thanks George!

[donkeyotay]

13. The numbers don't seem to add up

The 1000th soldier died in Iraq on September 8th in Fallujah where 8 soldiers died, bringing the toll to 1003. But today's figure is 1068, so only 65 could have died since September 8th. Ten died in October. So only 55 could have died in September, after the 8th. But since 81 died in September, that would mean that 26 died in the first week. I don't remember hearing about that on the news.

http://www.icasualties.org/

[jmcgowanjm]

14. Friday 10/8 Iraqi Resistance Report

Twenty-two helicopter loads of US casualties pour into
Baghdad from provinces Friday.

A source employed inside the US occupation headquarters
in the Republican Palace in Baghdad, known to the
Americans as the “green zone,” told Mafkarat al-Islam on
Friday that from early morning until 4pm about 22 US Red
Cross Black Hawk helicopters landed near the Ibn Sina Hospital.
The helicopters were bringing wave after wave of
US dead and injured from various places in Iraq to the
occupied capital for shipment home or hospital treatment.
The battles currently raging in the area are among the largest ever
since the American occupation of Baghdad in
spring of 2003, in terms of the numbers of forces and the extent of their deployment.
The correspondent of Mafkarat al-Islam reported Friday night
that the Americans had massed more than 3,000 Marines in
the area of al-Yusufiyah and al-Latifiyah south of Baghdad.
About 1,500 had actually gone into action in the areas

IMHO I think alot of UScasualties are coming from
Latifiyah. US is trying to pincer al Fallujah.

[jmcgowanjm]

16. Thursday, 7 October 2004.

Resistance downs two helicopters, kills 25 US special forces troops in Sadr al-Yusufiyah.

Resistance forces shot down two US Apache helicopters in
Sadr al-Yusufiyah in clashes that broke out about 6am
Thursday. A Chinook helicopter attempted to land 25 US
special forces behind Resistance lines but the special
troops fell into a trap and all were killed in the hour-
long engagement.

Afternoon fighting in al-Yusufiyah, another Apache shot down,
40 US troops said killed.
Resistance forces shot down another US Apache helicopter
at 3:30pm Thursday in Nahr al-Qa’id in al-Yusufiyah. Two
rockets were fired at the aircraft. The first missed, the
second struck the helicopter, blowing it up in the air.

In other action the Resistance destroyed a troop carrier and
two Kia cars carrying 10 US troops. In all some 40 US
soldiers were killed in the afternoon engagement as well as
14 Iraqi puppet so-called “national guardsmen.”

[karlrschneider]

15. 1069 showing now at

http://icasualties.org/oif/

[riverwalker]

17. dead embryos got more attention

last night than dead soldiers. They were not mentioned at all.

[donkeyotay]

18. good point (nt)