1,032 American Dead in Iraq

Daily U.S. Casualties 9/21/2004

As of Monday, 1,032 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to the Defense Department. Of those, 782 died as a result of hostile action and 250 died of nonhostile causes. The figures include three military civilians.

The British military has reported 65 deaths; Italy, 19; Poland, 13; Spain, 11; Bulgaria, six; Ukraine, eight; Slovakia, three; Thailand, two; the Netherlands, two; and Denmark, El Salvador, Estonia, Hungary and Latvia have reported one death each.

Since May 1, 2003, when President Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 894 U.S. military members have died -- 673 as a result of hostile action and 221 of nonhostile causes, according to the military's numbers Monday.

The latest deaths reported by the military:


Insurgents attacked a U.S. patrol with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades Monday near Sharqat, killing an American soldier, the military said.

The latest identifications reported by the military:


Marine Lance Cpl. Gregory C. Howman, 28, Charlotte, N.C.; died Wednesday in Anbar province, Iraq; assigned to 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif.

"The point is that by winding down America's military presence, while promising aid to those who don't harbor anti-American terrorists and retaliation against those who do, the U.S. can probably leave behind an Iraq that isn't an American ally, but isn't a threat either. And that, at this point, is probably the best we can hope for."

$200 billion and countless thousands of lives later, the best we can hope for is the status quo ante bellum: An Iraq that isn't an American ally, but isn't a threat either.

Now look at all we've won with the bomber and the gun
Tell me is it worth it all?

Don't listen to that crap the media tells you that they have died "bringing peace and freedom in Iraq."