2005 US Deaths in Iraq: 841 - - - - 2004 US Deaths in Iraq: 846

[bigtree]

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Two more U.S. soldiers were killed in
Iraq as the year wound down Friday, putting the American military death toll at 841 so far — just five short of 2004's lost lives . . .

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051230/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_051230140844

[RagingInMiami]

1. But 2004

Was a leap year.

[peacebird]

2. the year ain't over yet......

devastating how high the death rate and traumatic injury rate is for soldiers but consider how much higher it is for civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Nauseating. Makes me feel sick to be american.

[Sanity Claws]

3. You wanna bet that the spin on that will that

things must be improving -- see fewer Americans died this year than last.

[InaneAnanity]

4. Still one day left

[Nimrod2005]

5. Why do you hate Freedom?

[bigtree]

9. Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four.

If that is granted, all else follows.

-Winston Smith in George Orwell's 1984

[ClusterFreak]

6. Last throes, baby. n/t

[orwell]

7. I Guess...

...Freedom is still marching over the pile of dead and wounded Iraqis as well as Americans.

Freedom sure is a bloodthirsty motherfucker.

[Saturday]

8. Nora O'Donnell....

said on Hardball tonight that the death totals for 04 and 05 were exactly the same number. I think it was 843. Eerie.

[Nimrod2005]

10. The stock market under W. is unchanged too...The nothing Presidency?

Whoever takes over will have to work hard to erase the non-event 8 years as fast as possible...

[ComerPerro]

11. See? The number of deaths has gone down! We are winning!

This must be the "good news from Iraq" that the media is not reporting...