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Robbien

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Fri Apr-23-04 04:47 PM
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Bomb kills U.S. soldier near Baghdad

Fri 23 April, 2004 22:14

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A roadside bomb has killed a U.S. soldier north of Baghdad, the U.S. military says.

It said in a statement on Friday that the 1st Infantry Division soldier was killed when the explosive device hit a U.S. convoy near the town of Samarra, 100 km (62 miles) north of Baghdad.

The attack brought to 510 the number of U.S. soldiers killed in combat since U.S.-led forces invaded Iraq in March last year.

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=498627§ion=news

Notice they are using the 510 number not the 708 one. So Reuters is now dishonoring 202 men/women who died in defense of our country by wiping them out of the reporting.

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BlueEyedSon

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Fri Apr-23-04 04:48 PM
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1. WTF????

What happened to the casualty number???

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Ilsa

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Fri Apr-23-04 04:51 PM
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2. Eliminated either those that died in an accident or before May 1.

Edited on Fri Apr-23-04 04:52 PM by Ilsa

They'll use any excuse to whitewash the number.

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Robbien

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Fri Apr-23-04 04:55 PM
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4. Even the death this article is reporting doesn't count

Since there is no combat here, just a roadside bomb, this one doesn't count I suspect.

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BlueEyedSon

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Fri Apr-23-04 05:00 PM
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7. First war in history where the death toll will go down with each passing

week.

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

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bluestateguy

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Fri Apr-23-04 04:52 PM
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3. Disgusting

Just wait unti the Second Battle for Fallujah, which is coming very soon.

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phoebe

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Fri Apr-23-04 04:58 PM
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5. so the violence begins in Baghdad

Edited on Fri Apr-23-04 05:00 PM by phoebe

what a waste of human life.

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NNN0LHI

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Fri Apr-23-04 04:59 PM
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6. Yahoo has gotten the word. Don't report any more US deaths or else

They are worthless as a news source any more.

Don

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teryang

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Fri Apr-23-04 07:11 PM
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8. The total number of wounded has gone down too

Edited on Fri Apr-23-04 07:16 PM by teryang

...with the new classification of returned to duty. This involves the dubious notion that if you were only nicked or lacerated by a bomb or gunshot, that you are not a significant casualty. This ignores the known significance of life threatening episodes which will turn a substantial percentage of these RTDs into service connected psychiatric cases in due time. But under the regime's method of calculation, if you can't see it, it doesn't exist. "They only nicked me."

So the total number of wounded goes from 3466 at the end of March 04 to 2468 at the end of 4/23/04. This in spite of the fact that 558 men were wounded and not returned to duty since 4/02/04 and another 416 soldiers were wounded but returned to duty. Close to a thousand wounded in one month. You could make some pretty alarming projections about the number of dead and wounded to be expected over a ten year occupation. But it's gonna get better right?

Numbers courtesy of lunaville.org

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