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Auntie and All:<BR>
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Actually, the real death toll of US soldiers from combat in Iraq is higher than the figures you gave, according to Bernie Ward, who does a show M-F 10 PM- 1 AM on KGO AM 810 from San Francisco (comes in clear after sundown most nights here on the Palouse unless your radio is really crappy and/or you don't aim it the right direction), and appears from time to time on CNN and MSNBC...<BR>
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The explanation is that if a soldier is wounded in Iraq but alive, then flown to a hospital outside of Iraq for treatment, say, in Germany, then dies later from the wounds, they are not counted as a US fatality in Iraq, because they died elsewhere.<BR>
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Would someone like to verify or dispute the truth of this claim?<BR>
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Ted Moffett</FONT></HTML>