"The number of U.S. troops killed in the Iraq war passed 500 today when three American soldiers died in a roadside bombing north of Baghdad. Two members of the Iraqi Civil Defense Corps also were killed in the attack."
What's this part for? You feel it's unworthy of comment, you're annoyed he didn't clarify, or you feel it's political to metion the results of other contested political decisions? Honest question...I'm assuming it's 2, but still, rim might have assumed it was obvious that's what he meant, and was trying to be solemn in tribute.
While we're on topic, these are the numbers from the First Gulf War;148 killed in action, 458 wounded. Also, 121 Americans died through non-combat incidents
While we're on the topic, these are the numbers from Vietnam: approx. 58,000 total American fatalities WWII: approx. 17M allied fatalities
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Are you talking about the first two years that we had personnel in country (mostly SF advisors) or the first 2 years that we had numbers over there comparable to those in Iraq?
