Casualties near 1,000 since last Memorial Day

[RamboLiberal]

Source: Denver Post

Baghdad - Americans have opened nearly 1,000 new graves to bury U.S. troops killed in Iraq since Memorial Day a year ago. The figure is telling - and expected to rise in coming months.

In the period from Memorial Day 2006 through Saturday, 972 soldiers and Marines died in Iraq. And with the Baghdad security operation now 3 1/2 months old, even President Bush has predicted a difficult summer for U.S. forces.

"It could be a bloody - it could be a very difficult August," he said last week.

U.S. commander Gen. David Petraeus on Saturday acknowledged the increase in casualties.

"We're doing heavy fighting. This is a fight. There's a war on out there," he told reporters at al-Asad Airbase in western Iraq.



Read more: http://www.denverpost.com/ci_5996447

[Ilsa]

1. 3452 per ICC:

http://icasualties.org/oif/

4 for yesterday, 5 for today, 101 for the US for the month, 106 incl. UK/Others, over 4/day this month.

[Crunchy Frog]

2. Probably close to 100 from Afghanistan as well. n/t

[Screwfly]

3. There's a war on out there

and its the only war we have--except for Afghanistan and all those other countries waiting to explode into open warfare.