97 percent of US death toll came after 'Mission Accomplished'

News Type: Opinion — Seeded on Mon Mar 24, 2008 4:11 PM EDT

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BAGHDAD (AFP) — The death toll of US soldiers in the five-year Iraq conflict has hit 4,000 in what the US military said Monday was a "tragic" loss of lives after four troops were killed in a Baghdad bombing.

The four soldiers died when their vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb while on patrol late Sunday in southern Baghdad, bringing the overall toll to 4,000, according to an AFP tally based on independent website.

Another soldier was wounded in the attack, a military statement said.

The chaotic and brutal conflict which is now in its sixth year has also wounded more than 29,000 American soldiers, according to icasualties.org.

At least 97 percent of the deaths occurred after US President George W. Bush announced the end of "major combat" in Iraq on May 1, 2003, as the military became caught between a raging anti-American insurgency and brutal sectarian strife unleashed since the toppling of Saddam.

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luckydog

Only a hundred more years to go.

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#1 - Mon Mar 24, 2008 4:12 PM EDT

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Chum

"It's a shame you don't get support from your own country, when all they want you to do is leave Iraq and all these people will have died in vain," he told AFP.

This is a sunk cost--staying and letting more die will not bring them back or make the cause just. They did die in vain--that's the sad truth.

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#2 - Tue Mar 25, 2008 10:41 AM EDT

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luckydog

Yes, the McCain Bush theory resembles the situation of a compulsive gambler. Sure they've lost a lot but if they can make just one more bet, one more gamble their luck is sure to change and they can win it all back and then some. The truth of the matter is the dead are still dead, the middle east is still the middle east and whatever supposed gain is not going to change that.

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#2.1 - Tue Mar 25, 2008 2:39 PM EDT

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U.S. death toll in Iraq hits 4,000	msnbc.com	Mon Mar 24	1
Death toll in Iraq reaches 4000	The New York Times	Mon Mar 24	1
US military Iraq toll hits 4,000	BBC News	Mon Mar 24	0
Overall US death toll in Iraq hits 4,000	Yahoo! News	Mon Mar 24	1
3 US Soldiers Killed Near Baghdad	Associated Press	Fri Mar 21	0

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