Let me adjust your statistics, because of course the neo-con war hawks are always dumbing down the stats... They are short some 800+ dead Americans.
Military Fatalities: By Time Period
<table id="dgSum" style="border: 1px none rgb(7, 55, 111); background-color: White; border-collapse: collapse;" border="1" bordercolor="#07376f" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" rules="all"><tbody><tr class="GridHeader"><td>Period</td><td align="center" nowrap="nowrap">US</td><td align="center">UK</td><td>Other*</td><td align="center">Total</td><td>Avg</td><td>Days</td> </tr><tr class="GridItem" style="font-weight: bold; height: 20px;" align="center"> <td>
6 </td><td align="right">815</td><td align="right">44</td><td align="right">9</td><td style="background-color: WhiteSmoke; font-weight: bold;" align="right">868</td><td align="right">2.62</td><td align="right">331</td> </tr><tr class="GridItem" style="font-weight: bold; height: 20px;" align="center"> <td>
5 </td><td align="right">933</td><td align="right">32</td><td align="right">20</td><td style="background-color: WhiteSmoke; font-weight: bold;" align="right">985</td><td align="right">2.39</td><td align="right">412</td> </tr><tr class="GridItem" style="font-weight: bold; height: 20px;" align="center"> <td>
4 </td><td align="right">715</td><td align="right">13</td><td align="right">18</td><td style="background-color: WhiteSmoke; font-weight: bold;" align="right">746</td><td align="right">2.35</td><td align="right">318</td> </tr><tr class="GridItem" style="font-weight: bold; height: 20px;" align="center"> <td>
3 </td><td align="right">580</td><td align="right">25</td><td align="right">27</td><td style="background-color: WhiteSmoke; font-weight: bold;" align="right">632</td><td align="right">2.93</td><td align="right">216</td> </tr><tr class="GridItem" style="font-weight: bold; height: 20px;" align="center"> <td>
2 </td><td align="right">718</td><td align="right">27</td><td align="right">59</td><td style="background-color: WhiteSmoke; font-weight: bold;" align="right">804</td><td align="right">1.9</td><td align="right">424</td> </tr><tr class="GridItem" style="font-weight: bold; height: 20px;" align="center"> <td>
1 </td><td align="right">140</td><td align="right">33</td><td align="right"> </td><td style="background-color: WhiteSmoke; font-weight: bold;" align="right">173</td><td align="right">4.02</td><td align="right">43</td> </tr><tr class="GridFooter"> <td>Total</td><td align="right">3901</td><td align="right">174</td><td align="right">133</td><td align="right">4208</td><td align="right">2.41</td><td align="right">1744</td></tr></tbody></table>
And don't forget the wounded. yes we're not losing as many men as we did in Vietnam, you can thank better armor and medical resources for that, but the wounds are piling up..
U.S. Wounded and medical evacuations
As reported by the DoD as of 12/10/2007 <table id="dgWnd" style="border: 1px none rgb(204, 204, 204); border-collapse: collapse;" border="1" bordercolor="#cccccc" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" rules="all"><tbody><tr class="GridHeader" nowrap="nowrap"> <td nowrap="nowrap">Non Mortal Casualties</td><td nowrap="nowrap">Army</td><td nowrap="nowrap">Navy</td><td nowrap="nowrap">Marines</td><td nowrap="nowrap">Air Force</td><td nowrap="nowrap">Total</td> </tr><tr class="GridItem" nowrap="nowrap"> <td style="background-color: White;">Wounded - No Medical Air Transport Required</td><td style="background-color: White;" align="right" nowrap="nowrap">12,906</td><td style="background-color: White;" align="right" nowrap="nowrap">435</td><td style="background-color: White;" align="right" nowrap="nowrap">6,370</td><td style="background-color: White;" align="right" nowrap="nowrap">259</td><td style="background-color: WhiteSmoke; font-weight: bold;" align="right" nowrap="nowrap">19,970</td> </tr><tr class="GridItem" nowrap="nowrap"> <td style="background-color: White;">Wounded - Medical Air Transport Required</td><td style="background-color: White;" align="right" nowrap="nowrap">6,458</td><td style="background-color: White;" align="right" nowrap="nowrap">164</td><td style="background-color: White;" align="right" nowrap="nowrap">1,987</td><td style="background-color: White;" align="right" nowrap="nowrap">82</td><td style="background-color: WhiteSmoke; font-weight: bold;" align="right" nowrap="nowrap">8,691</td> </tr><tr class="GridItem" nowrap="nowrap"> <td style="background-color: White;">NON-HOSTILE-RELATED MEDICAL AIR TRANSPORTS</td><td style="background-color: White;" align="right" nowrap="nowrap">25,373</td><td style="background-color: White;" align="right" nowrap="nowrap">974</td><td style="background-color: White;" align="right" nowrap="nowrap">2,494</td><td style="background-color: White;" align="right" nowrap="nowrap">1,344</td><td style="background-color: WhiteSmoke; font-weight: bold;" align="right" nowrap="nowrap">30,185</td> </tr><tr class="GridItem" nowrap="nowrap"> <td style="background-color: White;">Non-Hostile Injuries - Medical Air Transport Required</td><td style="background-color: White;" align="right" nowrap="nowrap">6,316</td><td style="background-color: White;" align="right" nowrap="nowrap">278</td><td style="background-color: White;" align="right" nowrap="nowrap">1,037</td><td style="background-color: White;" align="right" nowrap="nowrap">332</td><td style="background-color: WhiteSmoke; font-weight: bold;" align="right" nowrap="nowrap">7,963</td> </tr><tr class="GridItem" nowrap="nowrap"> <td style="background-color: White;">Diseases/Other Medical - Medical Air Transport Required</td><td style="background-color: White;" align="right" nowrap="nowrap">19,057</td><td style="background-color: White;" align="right" nowrap="nowrap">696</td><td style="background-color: White;" align="right" nowrap="nowrap">1,457</td><td style="background-color: White;" align="right" nowrap="nowrap">1,012</td><td style="background-color: WhiteSmoke; font-weight: bold;" align="right" nowrap="nowrap">22,222</td> </tr><tr class="GridItem" nowrap="nowrap"> <td style="background-color: White;">MEDICAL AIR TRANSPORTS (HOSTILE AND NON-HOSTILE)</td><td style="background-color: White;" align="right" nowrap="nowrap">31,831</td><td style="background-color: White;" align="right" nowrap="nowrap">1,138</td><td style="background-color: White;" align="right" nowrap="nowrap">4,481</td><td style="background-color: White;" align="right" nowrap="nowrap">1,426</td><td style="background-color: WhiteSmoke; font-weight: bold;" align="right" nowrap="nowrap">38,876</td></tr></tbody></table>
Lots of bad guys in the world. Is it worth sacrificing the lives of Americans to get every last one of them?
It would be, if our national security were at stake. We don't have enough blood and treasure to go around and play global policeman for the entire world.
BTW, if you had lost someone in this occupation, you might be asking yourself if it was worth the price they paid, to get rid of a despot who was a manageable threat to the U.S. and by no means an imminent one, and with 87,000 dead Iraqis, leaving Iraq's people worse off than they were under Saddam....
Americas North Shore Journal
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<table border="0" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr> <td class="alt2" style="border: 1px inset ;"> A Milestone in Iraq You Won’t See in the Paper
Posted by Chuck Simmins on 28 Dec 2007 | Filed Under These Categories: Iraq, Terrorist Death Watch, War on Terror
Sometime on December 27, 2007, in a fierce gun battle in Al Kut, a milestone was reached.
The 20,000 AIF [Anti Iraqi Forces] terrorist was killed by our troops.
In many ways that anonymous soul typifies the war as it is now being fought. He was a Shia, a member of al-Sayyid Muqtada al-Sadr’s Mahdi Army, one of the Shia militias. Number 20,000 was acting in defiance of Sadr’s ceasefire order and was a member of a Special Groups cell. These cells are supplied, trained and armed by Iran.
He was killed by overwhelming firepower, in a futile battle that had no other outcome but loss.
Terrorist Death Watch has all the numbers and the stories behind the numbers.
3,186 American troops have lost their lives in defense of our freedoms and those of the Iraqi people. </td> </tr> </tbody></table>
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