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Total US troop deaths in Iraq to date (09/01/07) since 03/20/03: 3739

From 05/02/03 through 06/28/04: 718

From 06/29/04 through 01/30/05: 579

From 01/31/05 through 12/14/05: 715

From 12/15/05 through 01/31/07: 933

From 02/01/07: 653

(Sources: US Dept. of Defense, Iraq Coalition Casualty Count)

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Sunday, June 06, 2004

RONALD W. REAGAN, 93, CLAIMS "CAN'T RECALL DYING": Bob Hope...Katharine Hepburn...Ronald Reagan...when will this pitiless litany of tragic death ever cease? How many more icons of American culture will meet their untimely ends before the national psyche is permanently shattered? Let us give thanks for the great legacy of the Reagan Presidency, the lasting accomplishments of those eight years: the unquenchable burgeoning of hip-hop, a really impressive string of small-label rock bands, network broadcasts of SCTV, the mainstreaming of condoms, the small-plastic-vial market and the related car-window-repair industry (special discounts for downtown urban residents).

But mostly, when I remember the swelling numbers of mentally-ill homeless folks who appeared on the streets of Philadelphia and New York (to say nothing of other American cities with which I am unfamiliar) in the 1980s, and then think of Reagan's last decade of life lost to Alzheimer's Disease...I fucking laugh out loud! Unless, of course, he was Alzheimer's by choice.

posted by Red at 3:28 PM