australia just had its first military casualty during the iraqi war?
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A) The Army sent the right body. The morgue dispatched the wrong one in Kuwait. \nB) No one in Australia with any intelligence is buying the story that he shot himself while cleaning it, since he was a weapon's specialist. If he shot himself, it would've meant the guy bypassed the number one rule in gun cleaning: you take the clips out.
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The most scientifically accurate study of civilian deaths since the war started was done by the Lancet, a British medical journal in 2004.\n\nBased on the number of Iraqi fatalities recorded by the survey teams, the researchers calculated that the death rate since the invasion had increased from 5 percent annually to 7.9 percent. That works out to an excess of about 100,000 deaths since the war, the researchers reported in a paper released early by the Lancet.\n\nAt times it may have been worse under Saddam, but that was long before the invasion.  Saddam's worst killings were committed in the 1980s, including his gassing of Kurds at Halabja in 1988.  In Halabja 5,000 innocent civilians, 75% women and children were killed by Saddam's forces using chemical weapons.
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I wouldn't call it a war for no reason - there were some very unpleasant episodes of 'ethnic cleansing' there, not a million miles removed from the crimes of the holocaust. Also various sections of the community actually requested UN help in their desperation (unlike Iraq where the US/UK/Aus etc just stormed in uninvited).\n\nBut it is terrible to have people you care about miles from home. I hope everyone involved in peacekeeping duties returns home safely soon.
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New Zealand did not support the American military intervention in Iraq. Currently, I understand, there are a number of NZ Defence Force personnel deployed as a Light Engineer Group to South-east Iraq to undertake humanitarian and reconstruction tasks consistent with UN Security Council Resolution 1483 and working alongside a UK engineer unit.
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History - WW1  \nWorld War 1. 1914-1918. To assist our visitors in gaining an appreciation of Australia's involvement in this conflict we have provided the following: Overview of the conflictwww.anzacday.org.au/history/ww1/ww1-00.html
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No, 9/11 was the start of world war three. Iraq is just a chapter in the war on terroeist
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I am sorry for the above answer - while we know that things are difficult over there, it is difficult for us to remember the Iraqis when we have troops so far away from home getting injured or killed. Our government has already spent a significant amount of money, and I am certain that a portion of that money includes support for the Iraqi citizens.\n\nPLEASE do not take the above answer as the opinion of every U.S. Citizen!
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Bush is to blame. I'm sure when these people joined the military they did it with the assumption that they would not be sent into harms way unless it was NECESSARY to defend the country. This war was not necassary. (What weapons of mass destruction?) The blood of every dead or injured American soldier and every innocent Iraqi civilian is on his hands.
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No. But my best friend is a Kurdish Iraqi, and she spent 4 months there last year. She had her ups and downs. But what speaks volumes is that she saw her family's oil being taken by US officials with her own two eyes. (she comes from a wealthy family and they have lots of that). She was also staying in a mansion made of marble but there wasn't even any water to flush the toilets with. Pretty depressing.
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YES!! The Iraqis are already here after the 1st Gulf War.
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Yes, this link will take you to a site that breaks it down by killed in action and wounded in action, and is regularly updated:\n\nhttp://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/iraq/forces/casualties/
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I was in Iraq during Operation Desert Storm.  It was bleak.  After the war ended, many, many, many families were left homeless.  We had hundreds of Iraqi soldiers surrendering to us every day, just to get some food.  We helped many Iraqi families flee from Iraq into Saudi Arabia.  The skies black from all of the oil fields burning in neighboring Kuwait.  I lost a good friend there.
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For the lastest death count see\n http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/iraq_casualties.htm
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Sept. 11...  This was NOT a war, we weren't expecting it and thousands of innocent poeple died.  There was Pearl Harbor before but, that was an attack on a military base so, I don't think that can qualify and there wasn't near as many people dead?  The others that you mentioned were war situations and in war people are expected to die.  I would say the War in Iraq but, that wouldn't qualify either becasue it's a war (for the same reasons above)
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It's a Civil War and has been declared one by the Iraqi Defense Minister!\n\nActually the "Official" death toll for Iraqi's for those for the past 4 1/2 months is  10,538!  Iraq claims it is lower, though the actual figures show it to be higher. The insurgents, who are Iraqi's, are increasingly targeting women!\n\nI don't have a clue how anyone can claim it is anything other than a civil war as more innocent Iraqi's are dying in 1 day than Americans in 1 month! We claim it is a war! And if it isn't, just what the hell is it?\n\nhttp://uk.news.yahoo.com/hot/i/iraq.html
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The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.\n\n \n\n            Pfc. Patrick A. Tinnell, 25, of Lake Havasu City, Ariz., died in As Siniyah, Iraq, on April 19, when a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device detonated during a dismounted combat patrol.  Tinnell was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, Ky.
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No way to know because there have been a lot of foreign fighters and terrorists coming in fighting in civilian clothes.  \n\nI can tell you that most have died because of terrorists and their actions, not because of the troops there.  \n\nAlso, a lot less than what Saddam was killing.