A Look at U.S. Military Deaths in Iraq

[CShine]

As of Friday, May 28, 800 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq last year, according to the Defense Department. Of those, 585 died as a result of hostile action and 215 died of non-hostile causes. The department did not provide an update on Saturday.

The British military has reported 58 deaths; Italy, 18; Spain, eight; Bulgaria, six; Ukraine, four; Poland, three; Thailand, two; Denmark, El Salvador, Estonia and the Netherlands have reported one each.

Since May 1, 2003, when President Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 662 U.S. soldiers have died — 476 as a result of hostile action and 186 of non-hostile causes, according to the military's numbers as of Friday.


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=736&e=3&u=/ap/20040529/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_us_deaths

[maddezmom]

1. similar link here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x590343

numbers are a bit different.

[FloridaPat]

2. You will notice that none of the injured have died. Even though

the DOD is happy that only 6% of the injured have died - the lowest percentage of any war or invasion in our history. Current number of injuired - not DOD figures of course - 20,000.

Do the math.

[aljones]

3. Duplicate

Duplicate, please continue dicussion in this thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x590343