{"id":5919,"date":"2009-07-17T10:47:42","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T18:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=5919"},"modified":"2009-07-17T10:47:42","modified_gmt":"2009-07-17T18:47:42","slug":"iraq-troop-deaths-under-obama-reach-the-century-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/17\/iraq-troop-deaths-under-obama-reach-the-century-mark\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq Troop Deaths Under Obama Reach The Century Mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The number of U.S. troops who have died while serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom since President Obama\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s inauguration has now <a href=\"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/casualties\/\">reached<\/a> 100. This figure includes both combat and non-combat deaths that occurred since January 20. A few of the deaths were of servicemembers who died of injuries received before the inauguration but did not pass away until afterwards. <a href=\"http:\/\/wire.antiwar.com\/2009\/07\/17\/us-military-in-iraq-says-3-soldiers-killed-3\/\">Three U.S. soldiers<\/a> who were killed in a Katyusha rocket attack last night were the latest reported casualties.<\/p>\n<p>President Obama ran a campaign that promised Americans an end to the war in Iraq. Many were hoping for an\u00c2\u00a0 immediate resolution in January. Their disappointment in the president\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/first100days\/2009\/02\/27\/obamas-iraq-withdrawal-plan-disappoints-anti-war-activists\/\">slow<\/a> withdrawal and change of focus to Afghanistan and Pakistan is eclipsed only by those who are directly serving in the war theater. According to army officials, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/US\/06\/11\/us.army.suicides\/\">suicide rate<\/a> among Iraq and Afghanistan servicemembers is higher than last year and increasing. Indeed, of the 100 dead, only 32 were reported as combat incidents.<\/p>\n<p>It would not be the first time that President Obama ran on an anti-war platform and then tempered his opposition upon winning office. Some anti-war democrats, including the son of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/09\/14\/AR2007091402254_pf.html\">complained<\/a> two years ago that then-Senator Obama\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s opposition to war faded after the election. At that time, Jim Ginsberg <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/09\/14\/AR2007091402254_pf.html\">said<\/a> to the <em>New York Times<\/em>, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153some of [Obama\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s] actions and speeches once he got in the Senate did not match his [pre-election] rhetoric.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d By the time, Sen. Obama returned to the campaign circuit, his tune changed again. One can only hope he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll actually start listening to the music before more Americans lose<br \/>\ntheir lives in Iraq and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/31925308\/ns\/world_news-south_and_central_asia\/\">Afghanistan<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of U.S. troops who have died while serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom since President Obama\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s inauguration has now reached 100. This figure includes both combat and non-combat deaths that occurred since January 20. A few of the deaths were of servicemembers who died of injuries received before the inauguration but did not pass [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[3],"tags":[694,124,174,713,697,175],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-afghanistan","tag-antiwar","tag-iraq-casualties","tag-obama","tag-pakistan","tag-suicides"],"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\/5919","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5919"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5929,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5919\/revisions\/5929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5919"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}