Iraq death toll higher than 9-11

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While Bush spent the day exploiting the memory of those we lost five years ago, the nation overlooked a grim milestone: More Americans have now died in Iraq than died on 9/11. Iraq didn't attack us on 9-11, and our misguided policy there has now taken more American lives than al Qaeda.

Here are the numbers: 3,015 Americans have died in Iraq as of September 9.
2,666 of these were military deaths, and 349 were civilians.

The Republicans are fond of playing cheap number games with Iraqi casualty figures, and one of the ways they do it is by listing the deaths of military personnel only. They're hoping that a lazy press and an indifferent public will overlook the civilian losses, and to a large extent, they've been right so far.

I think somebody predicted this would happen.
Wasn't too hard to see coming, tho...