Daily U.S. Casualties 8/30/2003

[tboullett]

Daily U.S. Casualties 8/30/2003

As of Friday, 282 U.S. soldiers have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq, according to the Department of Defense.

The British government has reported 49 deaths. Denmark's military has reported one death.

On or since May 1, when President Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 144 U.S. soldiers have died in Iraq, according to the latest Department of Defense figures.

The latest death reported by the U.S. military:


A 4th Infantry Division soldier was killed in a rocket-propelled grenade attack Friday on a main road northeast of Baqouba, 40 miles northeast of Baghdad, said Capt. Jay Miller from the 67th Armor Regiment's 3rd Battalion.
The latest identification reported by the U.S. military:


Lt. Col. Anthony L. Sherman, 43, Pottstown, Pa.; died Aug. 27 in Kuwait of non-combat injuries; assigned to the 304th Civil Affairs Brigade, Philadelphia, Pa.

[alcuno]

1. So sad.

There are two additional Americans listed here.

http://www.pigstye.net/iraq/wd.php

[bigtree]

2. sloppy accounting

My earliest political memories were of the daily casualties that flashed on the tv news screen after Agronsky and Co.(old Inside Washington show). The numbers of the dead soldiers were so high that I had to force my young mind to accept that it wasn't a compilation. Hundreds were dying, and as I later took account, of course, I found that thousands had died.

The media has done a sloppy job of reporting the casualties. There are no standard forums outside of internet sources where these casualties are reported. And the military and government have been thoroughly negligent in their obligation to report out the casualties
in a timely way.

Centcom has a smart web page. There's no excuse for not reporting these out to the public. It's a subversion of our democracy to hold themselves unaccountable on these casualty reports.

[Narraback]

3. PM Kick

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