Heavy U.S. troop loses in Iraq this month
U.S. soldiers are being killed in Iraq at a rate
that has not been seen for two years. We are currently losing about 3.7 troops
per day, compared to a long-term average of 2.2.
My chart of U.S. casualties is currently
projecting a monthly total of 115 deaths, which is far above any month's total
since November, 2004, and does not include non-U.S. coalition troops. The
long-term average is about 66 U.S. soldier deaths per month. If this death rate
continues to the end of the month, the U.S. will have lost a total of 2,828
troops. The current total is
2,791.
There were 2,749 victims of the
New York attack on 9/11 and a total of 2,973, including the other attacks. Bush
used those attacks as an excuse to send U.S. troops into Afghanistan and Iraq.
We have lost 42 more U.S. soldiers in Iraq, which had nothing to do with 9/11,
than the number of people who died in the attack in New York and we continue to
lose soldiers every day. In Afghanistan and related areas we have lost 339
troops, bringing the total troops lost as a result of the response to 9/11 to
3,130.
Bush's idea of an eye for an eye
is very strange. Bin Laden masterminded an attack that cost us 2,973 lives; so
Bush turns around and engages in a war that has cost us 3,130 lives, and
counting. Bush has killed more Americans than Bin Laden.
Posted: Saturday - October 21, 2006 at 10:29 PM