Iraq Deaths

My Friend's Son Killed in Iraq: By Contractors and U.S. Agency?

Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.04.2008 | Politics

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The military told my friend this past January that her son had foolishly carried an electrical appliance into a shower in Baghdad. That was a lie.

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The 3,999th Was Important, Too

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.25.2008 | Media

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The media, it has been amply shown, has dropped off in its coverage of the war -- studies prove it, war correspondents lament it -- and we've all noticed it.

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New Iraq War Plan: High Troop Levels Through 2008

New York Times | STEVEN LEE MYERS and THOM SHANKER | Posted 03.24.2008 | Home

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Troop levels in Iraq would remain nearly the same through 2008 as at any time during five years of war, under plans presented to President Bush on Mon...

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Bush Sympathetic As War Toll Hits 4,000

AP | BEN FELLER | Posted 03.24.2008 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Marking a grim milestone, a determined President Bush declared Monday the lives of 4,000 U.S. military men and women who have died ...

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Cheney On 4,000 Dead Americans: They Volunteered

ABC News | Posted 03.24.2008 | Politics

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Wrapping up a nine-day overseas trip to Iraq, Vice President Dick Cheney was asked, in an exclusive interview with ABC News, about the effect on the n...

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4000 US Soldiers Killed In Iraq

MSNBC | Posted 03.23.2008 | Politics

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The death toll for U.S. solders in Iraq has reached 4000: The overall U.S. death toll in Iraq rose to 4,000 after four soldiers were killed in a road...

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Over 40 Killed in Attacks in Iraq

AP | ROBERT H. REID | Posted 03.23.2008 | Politics

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BAGHDAD — A roadside bomb killed four U.S. soldiers in Baghdad on Sunday, the military said, pushing the overall American death toll in the five...

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US Nears 4,000 Dead in Iraq

AP | BRADLEY BROOKS | Posted 03.16.2008 | Politics

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BAGHDAD — Sometime soon, the U.S. military will suffer the 4,000th death of the war in Iraq. When the 1,000th American died in September 2004, ...

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Uh, Just Asking

Jan Herman | Posted 01.10.2008 | Politics

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The number of the dead in Iraq -- 151,000 between 2003 and 2006, according to the World Health Organization -- doesn't even come close to the 655,000 estimated earlier by researchers from Johns Hopkins.

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