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Originally Posted by fastom
Does anybody know how the "4000" are counted? It doesn't include the majority of US soldiers that died because of the war in Iraq. Maybe somebody can post the 4000 names and see if we can't add another few thousand to it.
It's supposed to be many, many times that. Perhaps the public outrage would shut that misguided operation down.
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Are you saying the 4000 figure is somehow a lie? I rather doubt that, much as I disagree with pretty much everything the Bush administration does. The figure comes from the Pentagon. Sites like this one quote it:
http://www.antiwar.com/casualties/, and without strong evidence to the contrary, I would tend to believe them. I wondered if perhaps the 4000 killed only included *combat* fatalities, but that above link breaks out combat fatalities. Less well known are things like the number of American wounded, and the number of Iraqi's killed and wounded. Figured vary widely, but they're all horrific.
If you think the war in Iraq is wrong, 4000 dead American soldiers is outrageous enough, leaving aside all the Iraqi casualties. If you think the war is a just one, then you probably consider the casualties a necessary outcome of it.