1,928 dead in Iraq war to date:

[pojo]

Please.... stop obsessing about the amount of people killed over in Iraq.... I hate that with a passion... WE ARE NOT NUMBERS! The people dying... our brothers and sisters have paid the ultimate sacrifice. Unfortunately, we cannot escape war without casualites... that's part of the job...we signed up for the military... we have an idea about what we are getting into... unfortunately, this is turning back into a Vietnam. Even though I wasn't alive during Vietnam I still hear the stories of my superiors that were there... that saw the carnage.... that remember Saigon falling... it is still hard for them to tell you the stories.

One Tech Sgt told me (he fought in Vietnam and was former Army)... everyday he would fly into enemy lines onboard medivac helicopters.... there were approx 100 trips/day.... about 50% of the trips were dead upon (medivac) arrival... A retired Master Sgt showed me a paper of his last day in Vietnam..... well over 30 dead the day before... that was a good day!

Yes, I'm headed that way... I might have the unfortunate task of loading the transfer cases of deceased soldiers onto planes headed for Ramstein and then onto Dover.... it is the hardest thing to do... you try being a pall bearer for a brave sole.... every deceased soldier has a military procession onto the plane... and with my job.... being a pall bearer for these soldiers is part of the job.... You see commanders crying... yes, even Marines.

I know the media is obsessed with telling everyone that 'there was another Iraq casuality' we can't stop that. The media tells you the bad stories of what is happening over yonder, what they don't tell you is what else is happening... schools are open again, children have new textbooks, women can actually show their faces... there have been dramatic achievements in Iraqi communities. Unfortunately, there is still fighting... and this will not stop, but we have to accept the consequences that not everyone will come home.... Its War. Sadly, people do lose their lives.

*** think of it this way... we are losing more people on our roads in America than in Iraq. (Since the war was 'supposedly' over... we have lost a heck of a lot more due to traffic deaths than in Iraq. Our roads are more dangerous than the Iraq and Afghanistan combined!

[kmanWX]

I am proud to have served, and VERY proud to serve again, but this war WILL NOT...stop another 911 attack...rest assured, it will only increase the chances

It's good to see someone here is speaking the 'truth'.

[Aimless]

The numbers posted were a total of COALITION troops lost, not just US troops. You can thank the insurgents for the majority of the Iraqi civilian lives lost, not the troops.

Maybe I am reading this the wrong way, but I dont think anyone was directly blaming our soldiers for the loss of civilian lives in Iraq. I thought the point was just that our soldiers arent the only innocent people dying on the battlefield .... and its worth remembering that.

You read it correctly.

[sunny]

The numbers posted were a total of COALITION troops lost, not just US troops. You can thank the insurgents for the majority of the Iraqi civilian lives lost, not the troops.

Maybe I am reading this the wrong way, but I dont think anyone was directly blaming our soldiers for the loss of civilian lives in Iraq. I thought the point was just that our soldiers arent the only innocent people dying on the battlefield .... and its worth remembering that.

You read it correctly.

I've already said they did not read it correctly.