3,015 Americans have died in Iraq as of September 9. 2,666 of these were military deaths and 349 were civilians.
The Republicans are fond of playing cheap number games with Iraqi casualty figures, and one of the ways they do it is by listing the deaths of enlisted personnel only. They’re hoping that a lazy press and an indifferent public will overlook the civilian losses, and to a large extent they’ve been right so far.
A total of 2,973 people died on 9/11. Most, although not all, were Americans.
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September 13th, 2006 at 3:00 pm
It’s that liberal media making the politicians look bad.
Wait a second that’s what the politicans tell us not what the press ommits for political reasons.
September 15th, 2006 at 11:29 am
Wow, those statistics are mind numbing. I’m always saying I want to keep talking about the war or I might forget. But with numbers like that I just might have to crawl in a hole and cover my ears.