lunaville.org Iraq casualty count now 301 US dead , 1550 US wounded

http://lunaville.org/warcasualties/Summary.aspx

Summary News

Military Fatalities: By Time period By Month
Period US UK Other* Total Avg Days
+ 3.........162 17 2.... 181 1.29 140
+ 2..........22. 2 0...... 24 1.09 22
+ 1..........117 31 0... 148 7.05 21
Total......301 50 2.... 353 1.93 183

View Fatality Details Fatality Metrics


The Wounded: US Military
Reported by Centcom As of 9/15/2003......Total ...... Avg
US troops wounded in action:.............. 1234.... 6.89
US troops wounded in non-hostile incidents. 316.... 1.77
TOTAL US wounded in Iraq since March 20th: 1550.... 8.66
Wounded reported since 9/15/2003.............10..... 2.5

Tracking the Wounded

Notes:
Latest Military Fatality Date: 9/18/2003

Total deaths since July 2nd: 97 (Pres. Bush announces, "Bring Them On")
Total deaths since July 22nd: 69 (the deaths of Odai & Qusai Hussein)
Total Fatalities since May 1st: 162
March 20th through May 1st: 139

* Other in Fatality Chart refers to 1 Danish; 1 Spanish


Time Periods:
Period 3: May 2nd (the day after the aircraft carrier announcement) through today's date (Aug/24).
Period 2: April 10th (the day after Baghdad fell) through May 1st when President Bush announced the end of combat aboard the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln.
Period 1: March 20th through April 9th, 2003, when the statue of Saddam Hussein was toppled in Baghdad.

Ring the bell for it tolls for thee

Get out of Iraq! :bounce:

and then died from their wounds.

The Pentagon works hard to present a low number.

It also excludes the medical deaths caused by the troops being forced to take untested vac shots before going over (variously reported as 40 to 50 "sick" and "several" dead)

It was on Yahoo's front page this morning, Centcom says three american dead and two wounded. This from a firefight that lasted for eight hours, with heavy machine guns, rpgs, and small arms coming from the iraqis.
They say it was different in both the style, and type of weapons used plus the duration. It's gotten awfully quiet in the past couple of hours. It's like it's been censored, nobody is saying anything even here.

based - interconnected groups - planned multi-phase raids

Indeed the Iraq analysis was that in a few months we will have an active viet cong like everyday iraq citizen by day, fighter by night situation in all areas of Iraq.

Not yet there - now individuals are only into small groups - and have not yet interconnected with similiasr groups in other areas of the city and the nation. But Time is not on our side.....

but what did we expect?