Michael Roston, Raw Story
After the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff appeared to significantly underestimate the number of US armed service members killed in the Iraq War on Memorial Day, a spokesman for his office defended his remarks in an interview with RAW STORY. General Peter Pace meant in his Memorial Day media appearance to distinguish between US troops killed in action and the hundreds who who have died from ‘non-hostile’ causes in the Iraqi theater of combat.
“You only have a few minutes when you’re doing short interviews on morning shows, and General Pace was trying to be very precise,” Lieutenant Colonel Gary Tallman from the Public Affairs Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Wednesday. “He was referring to American service members killed in action as of May 25, which at that date was 2815, and there additionally have been 619 non-hostile deaths, and that puts you over 3,400.”
Pace had appeared to say that fewer than 3,000 US soldiers died since the US invaded Iraq in 2003.
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How can more than 1 of 6 soldiers die from non-hostile causes? Did they drink the water supplied by hallibruton, or has blackwater had something to do with it? Did the joint chiefs of staff goto school with george w.? Here is a hint to the joint chiefs of staff, 5 plus 5 equals 10, not 7, not 8, but 10!