The AP reports, “As of Tuesday, Sept. 7, 996 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count based on Defense Department records, AP reporting from Iraq, and reports from soldiers' families. The Defense Department's most recent published count, as of Friday, Sept. 3, shows 976 U.S. service members dead. Of those, 730 died as a result of hostile action and 246 died of non-hostile causes. The AP count is higher by 20 because it includes five additional names released by the Defense Department; 14 fatalities since Friday who have not been identified, and one report of an additional fatality from a family that had been notified by the military. In its published count, the Defense Department includes three deaths of Defense Department civilians in addition to service members' deaths, bringing its total to 979. The AP is limiting its count to service members and so does not include these civilian deaths. The British military has reported 64 deaths; Italy, 18; Spain, 11; Poland, 10; Bulgaria, six; Ukraine, six; Slovakia, three; Thailand, two; and Denmark, El Salvador, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia and the Netherlands have reported one death each.” The number of American soldiers killed in Iraq is eight times that of the deaths of all other coalition countries combined, Yet Bush still thinks that the 30 member alliance is standing shoulder to shoulder in this war!!! “Since May 1, 2003, when President Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 838 U.S. soldiers have died 621 as a result of hostile action and 217 of non-hostile causes, according to the military's numbers Friday. There was no update provided Monday because of Labor Day.” Mission Accomplished???