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U.S. Dead: > 4,525
More than 4,525 service-men and women have lost their lives in Iraq
& Afghanistan.
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U.S. KIA in Iraq since Mission Accomplished:
At the time the President announced "Mission Accomplished," on 1 May
2003, 139 American servicemen & women had lost their lives in the
War in Iraq, less than 4% of the total KIA to date.
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U.S. Wounded: > 29,420
More than 29,420 service-men and women have been wounded in Iraq
& Afghanistan.
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Civilian Contractor Dead: > 770
More than 770 civilian contractors working for American
companies have died. {Increasingly, private contractors have taken
up tasks which used to be performed by military personnel.}
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Of course, other U.S. servicemen & women have been dying or wounded elsewhere,
including other countries in Africa, throughout Asia, and in Central
& South America, as well ... all areas considered by the State Dept.
to be homes to "terrorism."
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... In
Memoriam ...
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In honor of those who have
fallen, whether in wars past or in the current War on Terrorism, DownStreet asks you to remember them. From Memorial Day
2002, we have kept this flag at half-mast -- and it will continue to fly
at half-mast a single day for each
service man and woman who has lost his or her life in the War on
Terrorism, or until the war is over. ... Meanwhile, we ask that you fly your flag at half-mast in memory of those
who have sacrificed their lives. ...
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Iraqi Dead:
83,221- 650,000
An accurate number of the Iraqi dead is hard to come by.
Conservative analysts estimated nearly 10,000 by Oct. of 2003.
Current estimates based on a seemingly solid method now places the
count at more than 83,000 [Iraq
Body Count].
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On the other hand, back in November of 2004,
when the Iraq Body Count placed the number of civilian dead at
roughly 14,000 - 16,000, a study out of the Center for International
Emergency Disaster and Refugee Studies, at the Johns Hopkins
Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore and
published in the British medical journal, The Lancet,
placed the count in excess of 100,000.
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That study was up-dated
between May and July 2006 and reported in
The Lancet in
October 2006. At that point, the Johns Hopkins study noted
"there have been 654,965 (392,979–942,636) excess Iraqi deaths as a
consequence of the war, which corresponds to 2·5% of the population
... Of post-invasion deaths, 601,027 (426,369–793,663) were due to
violence, the most common cause being gunfire."
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