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Thu Dec-09-04 05:30 PM
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I finally got through!

I have been battling back and forth w/ a friend of the family and my parents about the actual number of US deaths in Iraq. They sent me this http://www.veteransforpeace.org/US_War_Dead_111403.htm and told me to check out my sources. So I sent them back the following... Guess what? They decided to finally start paying attention! They are researching for themselves for the first time since 911! I think Rummy's little speech to the troops yesterday finally pissed them off! Yeah! :think:

CASUALTIES IN IRAQ

12/09/04
http://www.antiwar.com/casualties/

all deaths friendly and combat related
since start of war 3/19/03
1276

since mission accomplished 5/01/03
1139

since capture of saddam 12/13/03
814

since handover to temp gov’t 06/29/04
415

Official statement of wounded 9552

Estimate of actual # of wounded 15,000-20,000
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6515401/

“There have been 346 total USMC casualties since the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom. November has became one of Iraq's bloodiest months as the U.S. death toll in the war in Iraq reached 1,206 with new Defense Department identifications Tuesday night and Wednesday, according to an Associated Press tally.”

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6611869/

‘BERLIN - About 21,000 American soldiers, most of them from units sent to Iraq, have been treated at the biggest U.S. military hospital outside the United States since the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, the hospital said Monday.”

ABC news won’t give totals they want you to try and count for yourself, however they don’t seem to be reporting very accurately.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=215329

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=39146

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=39157

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=39166

http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/iraq/forces/casualties/

“There have been 1,428 coalition deaths, 1,282 Americans, 74 Britons, seven Bulgarians, one Dane, two Dutch, two Estonians, one Hungarian, 19 Italians, one Latvian, 13 Poles, one Salvadoran, three Slovaks, 11 Spaniards, two Thai and nine Ukrainians in the war in Iraq as of December 8, 2004. (Graphical breakdown of casualties). The list below is the names of the soldiers, Marines, airmen, sailors and Coast Guardsmen whose families have been notified of their deaths by each country's government. At least 9,765 U.S. troops have been wounded in action, according to the Pentagon. The Pentagon does not report the number of non-hostile wounded. This list is updated regularly. For a historical look at U.S. war casualties, click here, and to view a list of casualties in the war in Afghanistan, click here”.http://www.myantiwar.org/view/17158.html"Since the end of the Vietnam War, presidents have worried that their military actions would lose support once the public glimpsed the remains of U.S. soldiers arriving at air bases in flag-draped caskets. To this problem, the Bush administration has found a simple solution: It has ended the public dissemination of such images by banning news coverage and photography of dead soldiers' homecomings on all military bases. In March, on the eve of the Iraq war, a directive arrived from the Pentagon at U.S. military bases. "There will be no arrival ceremonies for, or media coverage of, deceased military personnel returning to or departing from Ramstein airbase or Dover base, to include interim stops," the Defense Department said, referring to the major ports for the returning remains."