Record July US troop death toll in Iraq  Saturday, August 4,
2007 - 10:00  While the US corporate media trumpeted on the last
day of July that US troop fatalities in Iraq were the "lowest
for eight months", according to the final Pentagon figure for
the month, 80 US soldiers were killed — one less than the number
killed in March. The July 2007 death toll was the highest of any
July since the war began and was almost double the number killed
in July 2006, when 43 US troops died. As of August 1, total US
troop fatalities in Iraq since the March 19, 2003, invasion had
reached 3659. As of June 30, a total of 54,100 US troops had
been wounded since the invasion, with 35,600 of them requiring
medical air evacuation out of Iraq.  From GLW issue 720