US deaths in Iraq pass 2000

[Alexander's Horse]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9772398/

what can you say?

Anyone got a figure for total wounded?

[Cyclotron]

what can you say?

Get them the f*ck home

[Patroklos]

Wounded would probobly be a very hard figure to come up with. Some people think you have to be shot, some think if you get a papercut you get a PH.

There was a thread that had a pretty good breakdown of the dead (combat/non combat) as well as wounded brokedn down by severity of wound, even far enough to "returned to duty in 2 days."

[GePap]

Given how effective combat medicine is now, the number of injured is certainly several times the number of killed.

Here is the list:

http://icasualties.org/oif/

If I understand correctly, the total number of wounded , all kinds, have been around 15,000.

[Alexander's Horse]

thats a very low death to wound ratio

[GePap]

Well, wouldn't that be the result of much improved procedures in getting the wounded to safety and treated?

[MOBIUS]

I still remember being laughed at like I was a crazy loon predicting there would be even a thousand US military deaths...

Though I was proved wrong - the # of deaths is actually at a far greater rate than I predicted...

[Adam Smith]

AH:

IIRC you are / were in the military.
Do you really think that smiley is appropriate?

[notyoueither]

Originally posted by Adam Smith
AH:

IIRC you are / were in the military.
Do you really think that smiley is appropriate?

[Dinner]

The actual number of service men killed is several dozen higher. The administration started a policy to not count wounded soldiers who were medi-vacked out of Iraq (normally to Germany, Qatar, or Baharain) and who later died of their wounds.

[Sprayber]

Originally posted by Adam Smith
AH:

IIRC you are / were in the military.
Do you really think that smiley is appropriate?

[GePap]

Originally posted by Oerdin
The actual number of service men killed is several dozen higher. The administration started a policy to not count wounded soldiers who were medi-vacked out of Iraq (normally to Germany, Qatar, or Baharain) and who later died of their wounds.

Any statistics on those deaths?

[MrFun]

There are no casualties -- we won the war a couple years ago, when Bush hopped and skipped onto an aircraft carrier, gushing about how we won.

[Barnabas]

Dont want to sound insensitive, or pro-bush, but 2000 isnt a very big number, considering the population of the usa, the time you have been in iraq, and all the soldiers that have gone to iraq, and returned.

[Patroklos]

I was expecting more. And I am a "Bush fan boy."