US War Casualties Pass 100,000

[sasha031]

Source: inteldaily.com

US military occupation forces in Iraq and Afghanistan under Commander-in-Chief Obama suffered 135 combat casualties during the 9 days ending December 2, as the official total rose to at least 100,003 casualties. The total includes 77,319 casualties since the US invaded Iraq in March, 2003 to December 2, 2010 {Operations “Iraqi Freedom” and “New Dawn”) and 22,684 in the Afghanistan theater (Operation “Enduring Freedom’) since the US invaded Afghanistan in October, 2001 to Dec 2, 2010.
IRAQ

US military occupation forces in Iraq suffered eleven combat casualties during the nine days ending Dec.2, and the official total stood at least 77,319 including 35,495 dead and wounded from what the Pentagon classifies as “hostile” causes and more than 41,824 dead and medically evacuated (as of Nov. 10) from “non-hostile” causes.*AFGHAN THEATER
US military occupation forces in Afghanistan theater suffered 124 combat casualties during the nine days ending Dec. 2, as the official total rose to 22,684. That includes 10,670 dead and wounded from “hostile” causes and more than 12,014 (as of Nov. 10) dead and medically evaculated from “non-hostile” causes.

Read more: http://inteldaily.com/2010/12/us-war-casualties-pass-100000/

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this doesn't get any attention in the media...

[sasha031]

1. the Pentagon released 11 names today

This Week with Christiane Amanpour marks the passings of baseball player Ron Santo, former congressman Stephen J. Solarz, actor Leslie Nielsen and neutron bomb developer Sam Cohen. In addition, the Pentagon released the names of eleven service members killed in Afghanistan.

US Army PVT Devon J Harris, 24, Mesquite, TX
US Army 1LT Scott F Milley, 23, Sudbury, MA
US Air Force Lt Col Gwendolyn A Locht, 46, Fort Walton Beach, FL
US Army SFC Barry E Jarvis, 36, Tell City, IN
US Army SSG Curtis A Oakes, 29, Athens, OH
US Army SPC Matthew W Ramsey, 20, Quartz Hill, CA
US Army PFC Jacob A Gassen, 21, Beaver Dam, WI
US Army PFC Austin G Staggs, 19, Senoia, GA
US Army PFC Buddy W McLain, 24, Mexico, ME
US Marines Cpl Chad S Wade, 22, Bentonville, AR
US Marines Sgt Matthew T Abbate, 26, Honolulu, HI

According to iCasualties, the total number of allied service members killed in Iraq is 4,747; in Afghanistan, 2,247, of which, 153 are Canadian. During this same period, 59 Iraqi civilian casualties were identified. For the entire month of November, 298 Iraqi civilians were killed.

[Skittles]

14. LTCol Locht died of lieukemia

diagnosed after she deployed to Afghanistan - strange - why did they not immediately send her home?

[daleo]

27. Good question

A war zone is no place for a cancer patient.

[Angry Dragon]

2. The powers that be just look at them as a business expense

Plenty more where they came from

I wonder how many civilian bodies are out there, how many actual terrorists.
Nobody talks about them either.

Say maybe Obama could get another Peace Prize next year..............

[glinda]

5. Wonder if they will ask for that back.

[Angry Dragon]

6. If it was me, I would be ashamed to look at it

[burnsei sensei]

3. I think most people who had even

a dram of common sense knew that these foolhardy and stupid campaigns would have a high and unjustifiable cost.
Time passes.
2+2=4. Still.
The stupidity of this government in foreign policy is just beyond words.
Its indictment is written in blood.
History will give it a black eye. Because human cost is never insignificant.

[sasha031]

4. John Kerry was saying that our presence in Afghanistan is important

he's completely with the president.

Nothing ever changes, it feels like just a continuation of the Bush years.
I supported both Kerry and Obama, I don't know who they are anymore...perhaps never did.

[burnsei sensei]

9. They have no separate and coherent

ideology any more.
It's as if they really believe that one ideology, or even one idea, is as good as another.

[politicasista]

20. Yep. Obama is just like Bush

:rofl:

[burnsei sensei]

22. Actually, Obama is not like Bush.

He is different.
It's what he's adopted that belongs to Bush.
You know.
Guantanamo.
Extraordinary Rendition.
1 war left (the worst of the two as far as I'm concerned).
You can tell how a progressive a person is not by what he has, but by what he has left behind, what he has decided to stop doing.
Obama has decided that much that was before was just fine.
And so he adopts it.
And then he makes it his own.
Like Bush? No. He's articulare.
Does he have the Bush baggage? You betcha.
And he picked it up himself.

[politicasista]

23. And he is trying to end it

maybe not quick enough, but the right way.

[No Elephants]

15. I guess he's figured out how you ask someone to be the last to die for a mistake.

[politicasista]

24. lol

:rofl:

[politicasista]

19. Wanna trade Senators?

You can have the two GOP senators Alexander and Corker, but keep Porno Brown. :rofl:

You can also have a soon to be GOP governor, a GOP controlled state house that could care less about people here.

You can also have new GOP congresspeople aka Teabaggers (one an domestic abuser of first wife, child support paying dodger, a gospel singer, one with an aide that sent a racist, spook-eyed pic of Obama).

You can have TN red-state agenda policies that are almost like AZ.


Luckily, it looks like there are some DUers that disagree with you and like Senator Kerry, sorry MA doesn't appreciate that and thinks of Kerry as like Bush. (Kinda like the Skulls and Bones thing). You can always elect another Brown.


Just sayin.

[w8liftinglady]

26. yes,,,I will happily trade Cornyn and Hutchison...and throw in Barton

[politicasista]

28. LOL!

Dang, No Democrats yet.

[struggle4progress]

7. We had about 213K casualties (KIA / WIA / MIA) in Vietnam

so we're over 45% of that

The Vietnam war was still playing a political role in the 2004 elections, 30 years after the war ended. The Afghan-Iran experience may cast a similar shadow over American politics for decades. we really need to figure out how to end this

[Hydra]

8. It probably won't

Cast a shadow, because people don't really see how hopeless and horrible it is.

Wikileaks proves once again that we are funding the people who are killing our soldiers.

Vietnam seems to have been a blip. Too many people saw through it...but still I get chain letters that denounce the protesters for being unpatriotic.

[No Elephants]

16. Yes, but, supposedly, we're not even at war with Iraq or Afghanistan and haven't been

since Saddam fled his palace and we installed Karzai the Corrupt. So, over 45% of American Vietnam casualties is astounding.

And they say Assange is not like Ellsberg because, this time, no one exposed a lie by our government to get us into war. Well, the WMD lie exposed itself. But we've heard plenty of crap all along. Maybe, between Gulf of Tonking and now, we've become so enured to lies and misrepresentation by omission and otherwise, they seem like truth. Or truthiness.

[Ian David]

10. Bush Lied. They Died.

http://www.carryabigsticker.com/bush_lied_shirt.htm



http://milfuegos.blogspot.com/2005/09/bush-lied-they-died.html

[No Elephants]

17. Bush has been out of office since January, 2009. People are still dying.

[western mass]

18. +1

Not to name any names, of course. But these wars have a new owner.

[defendandprotect]

11. 10,670 DEAD .... when will we have had our fill of bloodletting .... ???

[unkachuck]

12. "...at least 100,003 casualties..."

....sad, very sad....that's 100,003 people who won't be hugged today by a loved-one, won't see tomorrows' sunrise or sunset, won't be creating cures for cancer or wiping a tear from a childs' eye....

....and for what, a line on some corporate ledger?

[HCE SuiGeneris]

13. Permanent war.

The bane of society not residing in the top tier. It is beyond criminal.

[Xenotime]

21. Oh yea! Where is Cindy Sheehan with her t-shirts?

[w8liftinglady]

25. what destroys me is that people blink...and move on

there is no war,there are no troops or civilians being hurt/killed.change the channel.

no one gives a fuck.