Tuesday, January 31, 2006
100.
Less than 24 hours after Lance Corporal Alan Douglas was killed by enemy fire on his first tour of duty in Iraq, another British soldier has been killed by an explosion and three other injured this morning.
Corporal Douglas’s father, Walter, from Aberdeen in Scotland, told the Daily Mirror that his son had not wanted to go to Iraq.
"He was against the war. He couldn’t see the point of it. The lives of 99 young men have now been lost - and all for nothing," he said last night.
And now it's 100, and still all for nothing.
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Latest figures for military deaths show 2,242 US troops killed since March 2003. The total number dead from all of the other coalition forces is 94.
Estimates suggest that between 4,895 and 6,370 Iraqi soldiers have been killed and there have been between 28,224 and 31,826 civilian deaths.
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Corporal Douglas’s father, Walter, from Aberdeen in Scotland, told the Daily Mirror that his son had not wanted to go to Iraq.
"He was against the war. He couldn’t see the point of it. The lives of 99 young men have now been lost - and all for nothing," he said last night.
And now it's 100, and still all for nothing.
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Latest figures for military deaths show 2,242 US troops killed since March 2003. The total number dead from all of the other coalition forces is 94.
Estimates suggest that between 4,895 and 6,370 Iraqi soldiers have been killed and there have been between 28,224 and 31,826 civilian deaths.
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Wait till the extra UK troops are sent to Afghanistan, to replace the retreating US forces.
Sad stuff - I'm glad I'm 108 years old and too ancient for all this crap.
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Sad stuff - I'm glad I'm 108 years old and too ancient for all this crap.
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