More Americans have now died in Bush's wars than in the 9/11 attacks

[Poiuyt]

According to icasualties.org:

American fatalities in Iraq (8/31/06) - 2641
American fatalities in Afghanistan (8/31/06) - 333
Total - 2974

According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11%2C_2001_attacks

Total number of fatalities in the 9/11 attacks - 2973

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. According to tony snow, 2974 & 2973 are just numbers.

[Whoa_Nelly]

2. So...add those numbers up--5947 total Americans dead

Thanks to the greed of BushCo and the PNAC

[madrchsod]

3. 246 were foreign nationals

not to dimish the fact of your post but many people forget that many nations lost at least one person in that attack. it was an attack against the citizens of the world not just americans

[kskiska]

5. Exactly.

It riles me every time they claim that 3,000 Americans were killed. Not so.

[magellan]

9. Ah! Where'd you get those numbers?

I've been looking for them in order to make much the same point.

[BlueStater]

4. That's 2974 futures thrown away

All the great things these people could have accomplished, all the great things they could have given the world will now never be realized.

Not a single death in Iraq was necessary or unavoidable. NOT ONE.

[bvar22]

7. Closer to 40,00 American Futures, and

well over 400,000 Iraqi futures when you count the dead & severly MAIMED FOR LIFE!

[niyad]

11. and don't forget the destruction of the futures of the families left behin

as well-- yes, they are still here, but their futures are altered forever.

[lonestarnot]

6. And one had nothing to do with the other. Isn't that some'n.

[filer]

8. I'm sure he feels really bad about it.

After all, didn't he say that no one wants to be a war president. He'd rather be a peace president if it weren't for all those Islamo-Fascists out there.

[Phrogman]

10. Still got 300 left to go.....

Sensible to go clean house in Afghanistan, but the Iraq debacle is pure and totally Chimpo's responsibility.

[90-percent]

12. Katrina

Does anyone have an accurate count of Katrina deaths? I've read from about 1,000 to 3,000.

Or is it something we'll never truly know for sure?

-85% Jimmy

[StrictlyRockers]

13. Haliburton knows where the bodies are buried. But they ain't sayin. n/t