skippy the bush kangaroo

Sunday, March 23, 2008

surgin' past 4000

4 more u.s. soldiers were killed in iraq today, bringing the total number of us military deaths to the sad milestone of 4000. washpost:

a roadside bomb killed four u.s. soldiers in southern baghdad on sunday, the military said, bringing the number of u.s. military deaths to 4,000 since the invasion of iraq in 2003.

the statement on monday said one u.s. soldier was wounded in the attack on the patrol.

what impact the grim milestone will have on a war-weary american public and the u.s. presidential campaign will be hard to assess in the short term, but war critics are likely to seize on it to bolster their case for u.s. troops to withdraw.
add this to the over 50 iraqi civilians killed yesterday, including the 13 killed in the green zone after a shelling attack today, and the idea of "the surge is working" seems a little w/o bite.

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posted by skippy at 9:00 PM |

2 Comments:

98% of the public wont remember this past the next round in the NCAA.
commented by Blogger Frederick, 1:31 AM PDT  
Given the way they count these stats, I'm sure they passed the 4000 mark long ago. There's a lot of finagling of the counts, including NOT counting people who don't die directly in hand to hand combat, that type of thing.
commented by Anonymous Anonymous, 9:45 AM PDT  

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