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leftchick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-05 11:12 AM
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5/2005 US Loses 2.71 Soldiers a day Same as 5/2004. What Insurgency?
Edited on Tue May-31-05 11:35 AM by leftchick
fuck Dick cheney and his little dog** too....

Iraq insurgency in 'last throes,' Cheney says

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/05/30/cheney.iraq/index.html

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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The insurgency in Iraq is "in the last throes," Vice President Dick Cheney says, and he predicts that the fighting will end before the Bush administration leaves office

http://icasualties.org/oif/

Military Fatalities: By Time Period News

Period US UK Other* Total Avg Days
4 226 3 11 240 1.98 121
3 579 26 27 632 2.93 216
2 718 27 58 803 1.89 424
1 140 33 0 173 4.02 43
Total 1663 89 96 1848 2.3 804

To View Period Details Click The Period Number
Time Periods Defined
Latest Fatality: May 31, 2005
2005: Iraqi Police and Guardsmen Deaths


Military Fatalities: By Month
Period US UK Other* Total Avg Days
5-2005 76 2 6 84 2.71 31
4-2005 52 0 0 52 1.73 30
3-2005 36 1 3 40 1.29 31
2-2005 58 0 2 60 2.14 28
1-2005 107 10 10 127 4.1 31
12-2004 72 2 3 77 2.48 31
11-2004 137 4 0 141 4.7 30
10-2004 63 2 2 67 2.16 31
9-2004 80 3 4 87 2.9 30
8-2004 66 4 5 75 2.42 31
7-2004 54 1 3 58 1.87 31
6-2004 42 1 7 50 1.67 30
5-2004 80 0 4 84 2.71 31



Fernando Suarez del Solar pays his Memorial Day respects at the cross representing his son, who was killed in Iraq in 2004, at the Arlington West memorial in Santa Monica, Calif., Monday, May 30, 2005. Each cross in the memorial, erected by Veterans for Peace, represents a U.S. casualty killed in Iraq. (AP Photo/Nick Ut




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G_j Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-05 11:22 AM
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1. :-(
nominated
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leftchick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-05 11:36 AM
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2. I added dickies disgusting quote.
Why he is believed by anyone about anything boggles my mind. :puke:
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leftchick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-05 12:48 PM
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3. Last day of May and One Thousand Six Hundred and Sixty Three DEAD



:(
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G_j Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-05 04:16 PM
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4. kick
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leftchick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-05 05:09 PM
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6. no bites...
perhaps if I hate titled it:

"CHENEY IS A FUCKING LIAR!" it might have worked. :shrug:

Thanks for the kick anyway G j. And RIP dear soldiers who died for NOTHING!

:cry:
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ComerPerro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-05 04:20 PM
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5. The fighting WILL end before the Bush administration leaves office
Because, they are probably planning on NEVER leaving office.
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