U.S. Deaths in Iraq Could Top 9/11 Toll Before Christmas

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003524348

Five more American troops have died from combat wounds in western Iraq and Baghdad, the military said Friday, pushing the U.S. death toll since the war began closer to the number who died in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

In December, 76 American troops have been killed. At the current rate, the number of U.S. combat deaths this month could meet or exceed the previous monthly record for 2006.

At least 2,964 American troops have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003 -- or just nine less than the commonly accepted U.S. death toll(2973) on Sept. 11, 2001.

At the current rate this month, the 9/11 figure could be eclipsed before Christmas Day.

[BOSSHOG]

1. I heard ignorant trash on limbaugh a couple of weeks ago

saying he couldn't understand the correlation between 9-11 deaths and those Iraq. "There's just no connection." And limbaugh was whining that liberals can't wait to say bush killed more soldiers in Iraq then terrorists killed Americans in New York. What are we gonna do when the number is twice as much limbaugh? Go to the DR and fuck little boys and spread more conservatism around the globe?

[underpants]

2. I knew this was coming but I never thought it would happen so quick

I keep forgetting that they pulled everyone inside the greenzone before the '04 election to cut down on the deaths and of course it is completely out of control over there now.