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U.S. Military Deaths in Iraq


chaser29
07-11-2004, 05:24 PM
MEDIA DEATH CONFLICTS WITH TRUTH OF TOTAL KILLED.. It seems to me their should have been a higher #, but I came accross this and the #'s seem correct.... The total amount SUCKS regardless!!!!!! :disappoin


Today: July 11, 2004 at 14:47:17 PDT

A Look at U.S. Military Deaths in Iraq
By The Associated Press
ASSOCIATED PRESS

As of Friday, July 9, 875 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq last year, according to the Defense Department. Of those, 651 died as a result of hostile action and 224 died of non-hostile causes. The department did not provide an update over the weekend.

The British military has reported 59 deaths; Italy, 18; Spain, eight; Bulgaria and Poland, six each; Ukraine, four; Slovakia, three; Thailand, two; Denmark, El Salvador, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia and the Netherlands have reported one each.

Since May 1, 2003, when President Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 737 U.S. soldiers have died - 542 as a result of hostile action and 195 of non-hostile causes.

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The latest deaths reported by military:

- Two soldiers were killed Sunday in a bomb attack in Samarra, Iraq, north of Baghdad

- One soldier was killed Sunday in a bomb attack south of Mosul.

- Four Marines were killed Saturday in Iraq's Anbar Province.

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The latest identifications reported by the military:

- No identifications reported.

Hyatus
07-11-2004, 06:24 PM
How many Iraq people have been killed?

FireBball972
07-11-2004, 06:30 PM
civilians or our enemy?

and sometimes, its scary how hard it is to define those two

chaser29
07-11-2004, 06:43 PM
How many Iraq people have been killed?


Total Deaths in Iraq War: 10,800

Innocent civilians killed in Iraq war: ~6,000

Children: ~2442

0-14 years: 40.7% (male 5,103,669; female 4,946,443)
15-64 years: 56.3% (male 7,033,268; female 6,855,644)
65 years and over: 3% (male 348,790; female 395,499) (2003 est.)


Innocent civilians killed on 9/11: ~2,998

Children: ~10

Number of words in the Jan. 2003 State of the Union Address: 5,492

Deaths per word: 1.97

Deaths per the "16 words": 675


This picture is not pleasing...... I came accross this and figured it would go with this thread. More or less..

http://files.automotiveforums.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=/503/183828DeadIraqis100.jpg

Wether or not this child is iraqi or not... IT is still sad...

driftu
07-11-2004, 07:27 PM
and this is when, how and why.

http://www.iraqbodycount.net/bodycount.htm

werwolf-23
07-11-2004, 08:17 PM
http://files.automotiveforums.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=/503/183828DeadIraqis100.jpg

Wether or not this child is iraqi or not... IT is still sad...

The kid is, and is sharing a box with his 4 brothers and sisters. That's from the first few weeks of the war... What happened to those WMD that we absolutely had to get rid of before they blew up New York, anyway?

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