Why am I looking at these numbers that state 3,400 troops dead in Iraq and over 25,000 wounded?

Question

Source: Feb 2003. Neocons informs "ALL" the war in Iraq will last at the most 6 to 8 months. Here it is May 2007.....What went wrong? ( Information from Bush....Rumsfelt )

Military Fatalities: By Time Period

News
Current Time in Baghdad: 1:17:35 AM
Period US UK Other* Total Avg Days
6 314 18 3 335 3.22 104
5 933 32 20 985 2.39 412
4 715 13 18 746 2.35 318
3 580 25 27 632 2.93 216
2 718 27 58 803 1.89 424
1 140 33 0 173 4.02 43
Total 3400 148 126 3674 2.42 1517
To View Period Details Click The Period Number
Time Periods Defined
U.S. Deaths Confirmed By The DoD: 3396
Reported U.S. Deaths Pending DoD Confirmation: 4
Total 3400
DoD Confirmation List
Latest Coalition Fatality: May 14, 2007

Wounded and medical evacuations
Non Mortal Casualties Army Navy Marines Air Force Total
Wounded - No Medical Air Transport Required 11,071 412 6,054 229 17,776
Wounded - Medical Air Transport Required 7,479 5,376 1,897 59 7,479
NON-HOSTILE-RELATED MEDICAL AIR TRANSPORTS 22,522 817 2,191 1,171 26,701
No

Military Fatalities: By Time Period



Total 3400 148 126 3674 2.42 1517
To View Period Details Click The Period Number
Time Periods Defined
U.S. Deaths Confirmed By The DoD: 3396
Reported U.S. Deaths Pending DoD Confirmation: 4
Total 3400
DoD Confirmation List
Latest Coalition Fatality: May 14, 2007

Wounded and medical evacuations
Non Mortal Casualties Army Navy Marines Air Force Total
Wounded - No Medical Air Transport Required 11,071 412 6,054 229 17,776
Wounded - Medical Air Transport Required 7,479 5,376 1,897 59 7,479
NON-HOSTILE-RELATED MEDICAL AIR TRANSPORTS 22,522 817 2,191 1,171 26,701
No

Total 3400 148 126 3674 2.42 1517
To View Period Details Click The Period Number
Time Periods Defined
U.S. Deaths Confirmed By The DoD: 3396
Reported U.S. Deaths Pending DoD Confirmation: 4
Total 3400 Dead..... Wounded..25,678
DoD Confirmation List
Latest Coalition Fatality: May 15, 2007

Answer 1

Actually 105,000 Iraqi vets are under care at VA hospitals, and the US loves to leave out our coalition figures. There actually has been 3,674 killed in Iraq. Just because they are Brits make them no less dead. At least they publish our figures.

And those numbers are so misleading. There have been a whole category who have closed head trauma from concussions caused by being in the proximity of bomb blasts. They often were missed as they seemed to know so little about it, and they are very much wounded in action!

There is no explanation for Bush or any of his cronies!

ttpllt, it is obvious he doesn't like dead Americans. That is his point. You like dead Americans as you are pro-illegal war!

source: http://icasualties.org/oif/

And don't compare this to Vietnam! We were fighting a communist country trying to take over the South. Get it? We were fighting an ARMY! And a very good one at that! We weren't involved in a sectarian civil war!

The only similarity is that both were started based on lies by the President of the United States!

Answer 2

We are looking at these numbers because we have an Idiot in the Whitehouse, several Repugnants in the Congress, and 28% of Troop hating, stupid American who are willing to support the Idiot and the Repugnants just based on party affiliation.

For Leogirl:
In November 1995 Clinton hosted peace talks between the warring parties in Dayton, Ohio. The parties reached a peace agreement known as the Dayton Accords, leaving Bosnia as a single state made up of two separate entities with a central government.

For Ktray:
Do you value the lives of American soldiers? Just because it is less than Vietnam it is acceptable? Your kind are the so called supporters of the troops? If someone from your family dies, do you say its ok since its not more then one family member?

Answer 3

This is because Bush and Rumsfeld were moving their mouths and noise was coming out and they had no idea what the noise was. The noise had nothing to do with reality, it was just noise that sounded good to them.

Now, consider this... 3400 troops dead in about 4 years. Not a bad figure really.

In the Battle of the Somme in WW1, the British lost 19,000 dead on just the very first day. So in less than 6 hours of that battle the British lost more troops killed than the US has lost in Iraq in 4 years.

Answer 4

Don't know. If they took my advice the war would have been two days long and the count would be more like

American Casualties:2
Iraqi Casualties: 2,000,000
Gas price: 50 cents a gallon
terrorist supporting nations: 0

But they decided to play tea party instead of playing war.

Answer 5

Probably because you like a lot of Americans these days are concerned about the safety and welfare of our troops. What went wrong? Well, the American public were taken for a ride by the republicans that said the war was necessary for retribution for 9/11. What really was bad, America made a huge mistake by re-electing the chimp after the first four years. One bumper sticker I saw said, "Like father like son four years is enough for Bush".

Answer 6

I don't like the war either, but the comparatively low death and casualty numbers are a credit to the training and skill of our armed forces members. They're doing a great job in a tough situation. Compare those numbers to this point in the Vietnam war, and you'll see what I mean. 3,400 lives lost is certainly tragic, but it could be a lot worse if they weren't doing such a great job.

Answer 7

Because you found the article and was interested.. Be glad that it is in Iraq, and not in your back yard. I don't agree with the war but we can't do anything but stick it out now.. There is no political solution to terrorism. I would rather fight it out over there than here at home...which also may become a possibility.

Answer 8

You're looking at those numbers because you're searching for a way to justify defeat in Iraq.

You'll probably have to keep looking, as they're actually surprisingly low numbers for an opperation of such scope and durration.

Answer 9

Guess you just want to be depressed. Its sad isn't it? It doesn't matter that none of the people in charge have their children embroiled in this mess. Its just wrong that all of those Iraqis have to die. Sure Saddam was a dictator. Here's a question to research, how many people died as a result of Saddam's cruel dictatorship vs. the current war?

Answer 10

It did last that long. Actually we ousted Saddam much faster than that. It's the smoothing out part that is taking so long. Oh by they way, when you talk to Clinton ask him if Christmas is here yet. That was when he said he would have our troops home from Bosnia.