U.S. military deaths in Iraq top 600 (MSNBC)

[WillyT]

461 Americans have died since end of major combat declared

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BAGHDAD, Iraq - The American military death toll in Iraq passed 600 Sunday with the report that two Marines had died in dangerous Anbar province and that one soldier was killed near Najaf.

The U.S. Department of Defense’s Web site listed 598 deaths as of Friday.

Of the total, 411 members of the U.S. military died in hostile action and 190 died of other causes, including accidents and suicides.

The British military has reported 58 deaths; Italy, 17; Spain, eight; Bulgaria, five; Ukraine, three; Thailand, two; Denmark, Estonia, Poland and El Salvador each have reported one.

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Link: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4663197/

Another tragic 'milestone' of this Administration.

"How do you ask a man to be the last one to die for a mistake?"

Hell of a question Senator...

:argh:

[Qanisqineq]

1. someone should tell them to get with the program

the total is now 613 since the beginning of the war

[saigon68]

16. The Resistance Forces are coming out

An Iraqi man armed with a Kalashnikov rifle takes cover after clashes broke out with U.S. forces in the impoverished Baghdad suburb of Al Sadr City April 4, 2004. REUTERS/Ceerwan Aziz



Al-Sadr's self-styled militiamen from the al-Mahdi Army, speed away from clashes with coalition forces to take a wounded man to the hospital in Kufa, Iraq (news - web sites), Sunday April 4, 2004. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)




Crowds of protesters, including members of the Mehdi Army, a banned Iraqi militia that supports radical anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, march on a Spanish garrison near Kufa April 4, 2004. At least 19 people were killed and more than 100 wounded in clashes between Spanish-led forces and Iraqi protesters and militiamen near the city of Najaf Sunday, hospital officials said. REUTERS/Ali Abu Shish

[expatriot]

2. This is old...I mean we are up to 613 already....

according to lunaville.org

[WillyT]

9. First I've Heard...

Course I've been away from the PC for awhile.

Is this a case of 'mainstream' numbers???

Why the discrepancy?

:shrug:

[pippin]

3. Why Are Americans not screaming and hollering

about this. Aren't we madder than hell and won't take it any more???? :mad:

[saigon68]

7. True Amerikans care about Kobe, Michael J. and Scott Peterson more

They are also infatuated with Puff Daddy's latest dance and J. Lo's big ass

[Cocoa]

4. Steady leadership

thank God Bush was strong enough to resist all those millions of people that thought the war was a bad idea. /sarcasm

[David Dunham]

5. I think the US public will now turn against Bush, as Iraq falls apart.

[Voltaire99]

6. All this death for lies.

Somehow, I can't exactly see the Christian god of the American war party smiling upon the makers of this deceitful tragedy. +600 troops, for nothing. Upwards of 8,000 Iraqis, for nothing.

Hang your head in shame, warmakers! That includes you, George Bush, and you, too, John Kerry!

[11cents]

8. Seven killed today?

That's what I just heard on the BBC -- seven Americans dead in a fight with Sadr's Shiite militia.

[WillyT]

10. 'Seven' May Be Low !!!

Read here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x463532

:shrug:

[VolcanoJen]

11. Nine killed today, possible Ten...

... if you count the Marine who may have been killed late Saturday in Falluja. With the Marines news black-out in Falluja, it's hard to tell.

From markses' tragic run-down in his post #20 in this DU thread:

3-Apr: 1
1 - I MEF killed in hostile action, al-Anbar Province

4-Apr: 9
1 - I MEF killed in hostile action, al-Anbar Province;
7 - (1AD??) killed in ambush/ fighting, al-Sadr city section of Baghdad;
1 - unit unnamed, killed in action during protests, Najaf

[Qanisqineq]

12. it's 10

www.antiwar.com

[PsN2Wind]

13. Too bad the pain of what is happening over there

isn't distributed more evenly thru the populace. I wrote McCain asking why, if we are at war, there was no draft, there was no laws on profiteering, no surtax to pay the costs as we go. Haven't heard back yet but it's only been 5 or 6 months and he is so busy helping carry water for Bush.
If those three things were only debated by our so-called representatives, this fiasco would be resolved in short order.

[teryang]

14. Abject failure has George I in tears

He isn't crying for the dead who died as a result of his son's ego and massive lying campaign, he's crying because the critics are laying into his boy.

[jackstraw45]

15. How many have died from their wounds later?

An interesting question that someone else here asked last week.

Still wondering if there is an answer.