Reply #6: Could be wrong here, but...........

[converted_democrat]

I think that the 8,000 figure is close. The way that they report the numbers of casualties is intentionally misleading. The numbers that we hear about are normally the soldiers that actually die on the ground of Iraq. They don't mention those who die en route to hospital or the ones that die on the operating table, or the ones that die of infection or complication after the fact. They do this purposely to make the numbers look better just like they do in jobless claims and unemployment rates. I never believe any of the numbers that this administration spews. They are sooo deceptive on so many levels.

O/T ---- The bad numbers issue is going take down our country in short order. The FED alone has cooked the books to the tune of 60 million and some how we are operating with a missing 2.3 trillion. The U.S. economy is much worse of then anyone could currently dream. And those numbers are just the tip of the ice burg, this administration is very secretive about everything and it is hard to prove or disprove how much money is missing...The United States of America is going to go down like Enron. Only harder.