Apparently an updated count is 13 US fatalities, 8 of which were in “hostile” circumstances and 5 were classified as “non-hostile” accidents etc:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2045600/posts?page=35#35
Ah, I stand corrected (slightly) again — apparently there were SIX US deaths due to hostile action, and bodies of two heroes were recovered but they had died in hostile action in May 2007. Then there were the 5 “non-hostile” accidental deaths. In any case it’s a trend in the right direction:
What post #35 above shows is that 13 good Americans gave their lives for us in Iraq in July, 2008.
Or more detailed...that we lost 6 good men to hostile combat in July. Two were killed in May of 2007 at the start of the Surge, but their bodies were only recovered this month, and another 5 were killed in work accidents (e.g. vehicle wrecks).
6 to hostile combat.
We mourn all of our lost ones, and each death is tragic, but on the scope of a *war*, losing 6 men during an entire month of fighting pretty well shows that the war is over.
We won.
And yes, it was a “single digit month” as predicted.
36 posted on Thursday, July 31, 2008 10:59:24 PM by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won’t be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)