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1,000 US Soldiers Killed in Bush’s War
The AP reports, “As of Tuesday, Sept. 7, 996 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count based on Defense Department records, AP reporting from Iraq, and reports from soldiers' families. The Defense Department's most recent published count, as of Friday, Sept. 3, shows 976 U.S. service members dead. Of those, 730 died as a result of hostile action and 246 died of non-hostile causes. The AP count is higher by 20 because it includes five additional names released by the Defense Department; 14 fatalities since Friday who have not been identified, and one report of an additional fatality from a family that had been notified by the military. In its published count, the Defense Department includes three deaths of Defense Department civilians in addition to service members' deaths, bringing its total to 979. The AP is limiting its count to service members and so does not include these civilian deaths. The British military has reported 64 deaths; Italy, 18; Spain, 11; Poland, 10; Bulgaria, six; Ukraine, six; Slovakia, three; Thailand, two; and Denmark, El Salvador, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia and the Netherlands have reported one death each.” The number of American soldiers killed in Iraq is eight times that of the deaths of all other coalition countries combined, Yet Bush still thinks that the 30 member alliance is standing shoulder to shoulder in this war!!! “Since May 1, 2003, when President Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 838 U.S. soldiers have died 621 as a result of hostile action and 217 of non-hostile causes, according to the military's numbers Friday. There was no update provided Monday because of Labor Day.” Mission Accomplished???
Wounded soldiers go unrecognized with media attention solely on deaths
New Jersey’s Express-Times reports, “Overshadowed as the number of U.S. troop deaths in Iraq approaches 1,000 are the more than 7,000 casualties who were wounded since October 2001 in the war against terrorism. ‘There's tons and tons of guys down there who are amputees,’ Lasko, 21, said Monday, referring to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. ‘Some are missing both their arms, both their legs.’ The casualty list in Iraq includes 6,932 more who were injured, the department reports. U.S. troops killed elsewhere in post-Sept. 11 military activities total 135 in addition to 360 injured, according to department statistics.”
Some Iraqi cities may be left out in upcoming Iraqi elections
The Boston Globe reports, “Iraq remains on course to hold landmark elections in January, but violence could force authorities to exclude hot spots such as the western city of Fallujah from voting, a top US general said yesterday.Lieutenant General Thomas F. Metz, operations chief of more than 150,000 mostly US troops in Iraq, said anti-American militancy in places such as Fallujah would not derail the national elections. A contingency plan, Metz said, is to bypass Fallujah, and perhaps other violent enclaves, and concentrate on ensuring electoral security in Baghdad and other population centers where the hostility is lower. ''We'd have elections before we let one place like Fallujah stop [national] elections," said Metz, the number two US military official in Iraq. ''The rest of the country can go on about a process that heads right for an election." Hey, does that mean we can leave certain states out in the US elections, (i.e. Texas)?
The AP reports, “As of Tuesday, Sept. 7, 996 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count based on Defense Department records, AP reporting from Iraq, and reports from soldiers' families. The Defense Department's most recent published count, as of Friday, Sept. 3, shows 976 U.S. service members dead. Of those, 730 died as a result of hostile action and 246 died of non-hostile causes. The AP count is higher by 20 because it includes five additional names released by the Defense Department; 14 fatalities since Friday who have not been identified, and one report of an additional fatality from a family that had been notified by the military. In its published count, the Defense Department includes three deaths of Defense Department civilians in addition to service members' deaths, bringing its total to 979. The AP is limiting its count to service members and so does not include these civilian deaths. The British military has reported 64 deaths; Italy, 18; Spain, 11; Poland, 10; Bulgaria, six; Ukraine, six; Slovakia, three; Thailand, two; and Denmark, El Salvador, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia and the Netherlands have reported one death each.” The number of American soldiers killed in Iraq is eight times that of the deaths of all other coalition countries combined, Yet Bush still thinks that the 30 member alliance is standing shoulder to shoulder in this war!!! “Since May 1, 2003, when President Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 838 U.S. soldiers have died 621 as a result of hostile action and 217 of non-hostile causes, according to the military's numbers Friday. There was no update provided Monday because of Labor Day.” Mission Accomplished???
Wounded soldiers go unrecognized with media attention solely on deaths
New Jersey’s Express-Times reports, “Overshadowed as the number of U.S. troop deaths in Iraq approaches 1,000 are the more than 7,000 casualties who were wounded since October 2001 in the war against terrorism. ‘There's tons and tons of guys down there who are amputees,’ Lasko, 21, said Monday, referring to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. ‘Some are missing both their arms, both their legs.’ The casualty list in Iraq includes 6,932 more who were injured, the department reports. U.S. troops killed elsewhere in post-Sept. 11 military activities total 135 in addition to 360 injured, according to department statistics.”
Some Iraqi cities may be left out in upcoming Iraqi elections
The Boston Globe reports, “Iraq remains on course to hold landmark elections in January, but violence could force authorities to exclude hot spots such as the western city of Fallujah from voting, a top US general said yesterday.Lieutenant General Thomas F. Metz, operations chief of more than 150,000 mostly US troops in Iraq, said anti-American militancy in places such as Fallujah would not derail the national elections. A contingency plan, Metz said, is to bypass Fallujah, and perhaps other violent enclaves, and concentrate on ensuring electoral security in Baghdad and other population centers where the hostility is lower. ''We'd have elections before we let one place like Fallujah stop [national] elections," said Metz, the number two US military official in Iraq. ''The rest of the country can go on about a process that heads right for an election." Hey, does that mean we can leave certain states out in the US elections, (i.e. Texas)?