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Iraqi Civilian Deaths ... caused by Bush's unprovoked war

 

US death toll in Iraq starts to make mark on history
(The Cape Argus, November 14, 2003)
The American death toll in Iraq has surpassed the number of US soldiers killed during the first three years of the Vietnam War. . . . A Reuters analysis of US defense Department statistics showed that the Vietnam War, which the army says officially began on December 11, 1961, produced 392 fatal casualties from 1962 to the end of 1964, when US troop levels in Indochina stood at just over 17 000. . . . By comparison, a roadside bomb attack that killed a soldier in Baghdad on Wednesday brought to 397 the tally of US dead in Iraq, where US forces number about 130 000 troops - the same number reached in Vietnam by October 1965. . . . The casualty count for Iraq apparently surpassed the Vietnam figure last Sunday, when a US soldier killed in a rocket-propelled grenade attack south of Baghdad became the 393rd American casualty since Operation Iraqi Freedom began on March 20. . . . But not until September 1965, after congress had approved the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, did Washington begin its huge escalation of the war effort. Casualties in Vietnam soared to 1 926 in 1965 and peaked at 16 869 in 1968, the year of the Tet offensive. . . . More than 58 000 US military personnel died in Vietnam before the war ended. - Reuters

[COMMENT: I wonder how many young American women and men will be slaughtered in Iraq before we call an end to Bush's War? What is the number of deaths we must reach before the US public says "ENOUGH!" ? It seems certain that the toll will reach 500 quite soon. So is the magic number 1,000, 5,000, or must we reach 50,000 US deaths before the Bush gang is driven out of Washington? Are you willing to sacrifice your life, or the lives of your children and grandchildren, just to satisfy the Cheney-Bush-Rumsfeld-Powell-Rice lust for oil and power? My guess is that those who are blindly supporting Bush's War are only willing to sacrifice the lives of poor people who can find no other job than that of mercenary for the oil companies.]

posted by LoZo 10:55 AM