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05/01/2004: "Pentagon's No. 2 blunders on American Casualties"
:cry:When asked how many American troops have died in Iraq, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz replied "It's approximately 500, of which — I can get the exact numbers — approximately 350 are combat deaths,"
How can the number two man at the pentagon, an architect of the military campaign in Iraq not know how many of over brave soldiers have lost their lives in Iraq? Wolfowitz made this statement while testifying in front of congress about the war. I would have thought he would have been prepared to answer basic questions.
Wolfowitz is either an idiot or was trying to down play the loss of life during this war. This Administration should not be playing games with the numbers, especially when each of those numbers represents the death of an American soldier.