Bush's War in Iraq Claims More Than 1,500 American Soldiers
Commentary
~ March 3, 2005: The number of U.S. troops killed in Iraq has
topped 1,500, according to an Associated Press count after the U.S.
military announced the deaths of three more Americans. The latest
reported American deaths brought the toll to 1,502 since Bush launched
his war in Iraq in March 2003.
The military said two U.S. troops died Wednesday
in Baghdad of injuries suffered when a roadside bomb exploded near
their vehicle. Another soldier was killed the same day in the ''Triangle
of Death'' – so-called because of the frequency of insurgent
attacks on U.S. and Iraqi forces.
AP points out that since May 1, 2003, when President
Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 1,364
U.S. military members have died.
Iraqbodycount.net, an independent website which relies
on credible media reports of deaths, puts the number of Iraqi civilians
killed since the invasion at up to 18,395 - although it says many
other deaths may have gone unreported. A statistical study
in the medical journal the Lancet estimated that Iraqi
civilian deaths could be as high as 198,000.
What have these people died for? Oh yeah - to rid
Sadaam Hussain of his Weapons of Mass Destruction. Or was it to
bring Freedom to the Arab World? Right. Sure. Or could it possiby
have been to divert American attention from Bush's own illegitimate
government, and to divert taxpayer funds from Congress into the
bank accounts of his oligarchic campaign supporters - Halliburton,
Bechtel, etc.
Commentary
~ March 3, 2005: The number of U.S. troops killed in Iraq has
topped 1,500, according to an Associated Press count after the U.S.
military announced the deaths of three more Americans. The latest
reported American deaths brought the toll to 1,502 since Bush launched
his war in Iraq in March 2003.