3422 Reasons Why The DSM is Important

There Have Been 3422 US Troops Killed in Iraq.

The committee should be meeting upstairs. The lady should sit in the front of the bus. It's time to move.

June 15, 2006 to be exact, this headline appeared in the Boston Globe...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of U.S. military deaths in Iraq has reached 2,500, the Pentagon said on Thursday, more than three years into a conflict that finds U.S. and allied forces locked in a struggle with a resilient insurgency.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/06/15/pentagon_says_military_deaths_in_iraq_hit_2500/

In about 1 year, we have lost nearly 1,000 service men and women.

As long as our Congress remains silent our troops will continue to die for nothing.


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Military: 7 U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq
By ROBERT H. REID

BAGHDAD - Bombings killed seven U.S. soldiers in Baghdad and a southern city, the U.S. military said Sunday, and the country's Sunni vice president spoke out against a proposed oil law, clouding the future of a key benchmark for assuring continued U.S. support for the government.

Six of the soldiers were killed Saturday in a bombing in western Baghdad, the military said in a statement. Their interpreter was also killed.

The other soldier died in a blast Saturday in Diwaniyah, a mostly Shiite city 80 miles south of the capital where radical Shiite militias operate. Two soldiers were wounded in that attack, the military said.

Those deaths brought the number of American troops killed in

Iraq since Friday to at least 15 — eight of them in Baghdad. So far, at least 71 U.S. forces have died in Iraq this month — most of them from bombs.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070520/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

Don't anyone forget that.

U.S. Deaths Confirmed By The DoD: 3404
Reported U.S. Deaths Pending DoD Confirmation: 18
Total 3422
DoD Confirmation List
Latest Coalition Fatality: May 20, 2007

http://icasualties.org/oif/

are roughly 400 the first six months, 600 the last six.

the rate is accelerating rapidly