Looking at the entire war, there was much fanfare Thursday over the fact that the latest U.S. combat death this week pushed the official total to 148 -- finally topping the 147 figure for Gulf War 1. However, according to the Iraq Coalition Casualty Count, the total number of all U.S. deaths, combat and otherwise, in Iraq is actually 224.
See also: Iraq Coalition Casualty Count, although I am loathe to repeat that word 'coalition' in this context, as it has been a term used absolutely misleadingly by U.S. propaganda forces. The American progit office's use of the word 'coalition' does two things: it gives the illusion that there are a ton of people fighting alongside U.S. troops in their 'heroic effort to liberate Iraq' (read: liberate Iraqi oil)--when, just by looking at this site you see only two columns of casualties: US and UK--and two, the word 'coalition' simultaneously harkens back to WWII, when the word 'coalition' was actually a good thing. Of course, the latter is no accident: all of the right-wing think tanks consistently pointed to WWII as justification leading up to this war in one way or another, because this would help sell their 'romantic' notion of war. (Of course, they never mentioned Vietnam.)
Funny, when it comes to overtime pay and big media regulation, right-wingers will claim that any law over fifty years old is 'hopelessly antiquated,' but when it comes to invading another country to steal their oil, justifying it with romantic allusions to a war which took place over half a century ago will do just fine.
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