Update on casualties..

[veracity]

The tv news is NOT giving totals...here's an update:

As of Monday, Dec. 29, 478 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq, according to the Department of Defense. Of those, 327 died as a result of hostile action and 151 died of non-hostile causes, the department said.

The British military has reported 52 deaths; Italy, 17; Spain, eight; Bulgaria, five; Thailand, two; Denmark, Ukraine and Poland have reported one each.

On or since May 1, when President Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 340 U.S. soldiers have died - 212 as a result of hostile action and 128 of non-hostile causes, according to the Defense Department's figures.

Since the start of military operations, 2,368 U.S. service members have been injured as a result of hostile action, according to the Defense Department's figures. Non-hostile injured numbered 372.

[FDRrocks]

1. It seems like nothing to me...

But I agree on the general idea that the media both overtly and subtlely distorts the truth to serve the ends of whatever business has its hand up thier ass.