U.S. Military Deaths in Iraq - 868 U.S. service members have died

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040706/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_us_deaths&cid=540&ncid=1473

As of Tuesday, July 6, 868 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq (news - web sites) last year, according to the Defense Department. Of those, 646 died as a result of hostile action and 222 died of non-hostile causes. The military did not provide an update over the holiday weekend.

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[lucky777]

1. Seems like few deaths in the news -- is this a reflection

of fewer deaths or simply underreporting by the media?

[King of New Orleans]

2. Seven died in the last two days

The deaths tend to be buried in articles now. Very dishonest.

[fearnobush]

3. Lunaville is reporting 871 and 991 total coalition deaths.

I guess the sovereignty thing is not working out so well. That is sad.

[MGKrebs]

4. In a desperate attempt to find something, anything,

potentially positive in this inconceivable tragedy... perhaps the fact that at this rate there will have been 1000 deaths just before the election will cause some people to realize that we are on a road to nowhere good. That we must change directions.

By what measure do we judge success? Failure?
How does John Doe know when to recognize a mistake, let alone a disaster?

It is almost unbearable. 1000 kids will have died. For what? 10,000 Iraqis have died. For what? 16,000 US wounded??? My God.

If and when Iraq ever becomes "stabilized", will we have achieved anything? What are the lessons to be learned from Palestine, Northern Ireland, Afghanistan, Chechnya, Viet Nam?

I have never hoped more that karma is a real thing.