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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (25899)10/9/2007 9:24:17 AM
From: sea_urchin  Read Replies (1) of 81122
 
Gus > On the other hand, there's no official tallying of their casualties... Iraqi insurgents can blow them up by the hundred, nobody cares.

I'm not sure about that? Consider Fallujah ..

en.wikipedia.org

>>31 March 2004: Four American private military contractors are killed in the city, and images of their mutilated bodies are broadcast around the world.
4 April 2004: American Marines launch Operation Vigilant Resolve. <<

Frankly, I don't think the real casualty toll in the Iraq war is know for anyone, Iraqis, contractors and the US forces. I believe only those GIs killed in direct action are counted, those who die in hospitals from wounds etc are forgotten about, likewise many of the injured servicemen.
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