{"id":418,"date":"2004-01-18T00:03:04","date_gmt":"2004-01-18T07:03:04","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-01-18T00:03:04","modified_gmt":"2004-01-18T07:03:04","slug":"death-toll-tops-500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/01\/18\/death-toll-tops-500\/","title":{"rendered":"Death Toll Tops 500"},"content":{"rendered":"

CentCom reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Three 4th Infantry Division soldiers and two Iraqi Civil Defense Corps members were killed this morning at approximately 7:45 a.m. when their combat patrol was ambushed with an improvised explosive device north of Baghdad<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In another incident<\/a>, a US soldier died from a non-hostile gunshot wound. <\/p>\n

These deaths bring the US death toll<\/a> since March 20th to 502, and the total since the war “ended” to 363. Unfortunately, the Iraqi resistance movement has sure “brought it on”: 297 American soldiers have died since Bush’s infamous invitation for more violence<\/a> (July 2nd). Major news outlets, in particular the Associated Press<\/a>, report that today’s deaths bring the US total to 500. CNN reports the total as 501<\/a>. The discrepancy in the count may stem from two recent incidents. First,a still unnamed US solider died of a heart-attack in Qatar<\/a>, while on the 5th of January the DoD released the name of a Spc. Luke P. Frist<\/a> who died in an Army hospital in the US from wounds received in an attack on his fuel truck in Iraq. Finally, lunaville.org<\/a> — a website that meticulously reports and databases deaths in Iraq — shows the total as 502. <\/p>\n

Whatever the total — 500, 501, 502 — too many young American men and women have died to wreak chaos in a distant land, increase the scope of the government’s power and ensure the reelection of a interventionist administration. Antiwar.com will continue to track this cost of war<\/a> until all troops and American influence leave Iraq. <\/p>\n

To do your part in spreading the word of this costly war, place a “casualty counter<\/a>” on your web site. <\/p>\n

UPDATE 3 am EST: A car bomb exploded outside the coalition headquarters in Baghdad<\/a>, reportedly killing 18 Iraqis and 2 American contractors. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CentCom reports: Three 4th Infantry Division soldiers and two Iraqi Civil Defense Corps members were killed this morning at approximately 7:45 a.m. when their combat patrol was ambushed with an improvised explosive device north of Baghdad In another incident, a US soldier died from a non-hostile gunshot wound. These deaths bring the US death toll […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}