556 American soldiers down: a photo memorial
A year later, compared to the uncounted thousands of Iraqi civilians who're now dead thanks to this war, there are almost 600 US solidiers who've diead (each and every one counted...although not allowed to be filmed coming home since that would distract from George W. Bush's re-election campaign).
You can see in this San Francisco Chronicle photo memorial that these soliders are barely kids. But all are definitely dead as a result of George W. Bush's "stubborn leadership". The kind of leadership that doesn't analyze the facts nor faces the truth.
On May 2, after a lightning-quick sweep through Iraq, President Bush declared that major combat was over. This country's vaunted armed forces had made short work of the Iraqi military.
But the president's proclamation didn't stop the fatalities, which as of Thursday included 556 American troops. More than 415 of them lost their lives after Bush declared that the major fighting was finished.