How many soldiers have died since Bush's aircraft carrier thing?

Darth_Ole

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Fri Oct-10-03 01:08 PM
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How many soldiers have died since Bush's aircraft carrier thing?

Would anyone happen to know?

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criticalmass

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Fri Oct-10-03 01:10 PM
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1. 187

Iraq Coalition Casualties

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11 Bravo

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Fri Oct-10-03 01:10 PM
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2. I believe I heard 93 just this morning.

Edited on Fri Oct-10-03 01:15 PM by 2dumb2beprez

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on edit: I'm not sure if that figure referred solely to U.S. troops or included all combat fatalities. I had the TV on for background noise.

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criticalmass

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Fri Oct-10-03 01:13 PM
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6. That must have been a mainstream media source

They only report "in combat" deaths.

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11 Bravo

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Fri Oct-10-03 01:16 PM
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7. I'll bet you're right.

The figures you cite in reply #1 sound closer to the fact to me.

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DeathvadeR

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Fri Oct-10-03 01:11 PM
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3. .

<http://lunaville.org/warcasualties/Summary.aspx>

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Media_Lies_Daily

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Fri Oct-10-03 01:12 PM
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4. Even one death would have been too much.

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Goldmund

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Fri Oct-10-03 01:12 PM
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5. 187

which is more than died before that stunt.

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KoKo

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Fri Oct-10-03 01:26 PM
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8. But over 1,600 have been injured since the war started. That's pretty bad

and they don't want people to know it, but it's getting out there.

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It was not a pretzel

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Fri Oct-10-03 01:31 PM
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9. That must only be direct combat injuries

the other night german TV showed a report that over 6000 casualties had passed through Landstuhl alone.

Several hundred were said to have missing limbs.

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criticalmass

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Fri Oct-10-03 02:06 PM
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12. The Guardian mentioned the 6,000 too

Back on September 14. The number would be even higher now.

The Hidden Battlefield Toll

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NeonLX

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Fri Oct-10-03 01:33 PM
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10. Here's a nice graph for tracking Iraq war stats

Needs to be updated but it's a nice visual. Check out the cost of the war that keeps adding as you watch it, below the graph:

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

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dpbrown

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Fri Oct-10-03 01:36 PM
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11. More than before that stunt

The tipping point was met this last week, and the media dutifully ignored it.

More soldiers have been killed in Iraq since Captain Unelected the Poseur Prince, Bush the Stunted, did his tennis-balls-in-the-pants stunt than were killed in the actual "invasion."

Way to go, Bush!

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