This information is being actively suppressed by the US authorities. I had started a Thread titled: "The BIG LIE: Dead US soldiers in Iraq number between 15,000 and 25,000..." on the Iran Defence Website, where I post under Zionix and where I had gathered a great deal of information supporting this contention. Yesterday, when typing "Landsthul dead wounded ratio", the thread came #1 on Google: today, the thread has disappeared without a trace

According to an October 2004 Dispatch from the Italian Military Health Observatory, a total of 109 Italian soldiers have died thus far due to exposure to depleted uranium. A spokesman at the Military Health Observatory, Domenico Leggiero, states "The total of 109 casualties exceeds the total number of persons dying as a consequence of road accidents. Anyone denying the significance of such data is purely acting out of ill faith, and the truth is that our soldiers are dying out there due to a lack of adequate protection against depleted uranium". Members of the Observatory have petitioned for an urgent hearing "in order to study effective prevention and safeguard measures aimed at reducing the death-toll amongst our serving soldiers".

There were only 3,000 Italian soldiers sent to Iraq, and they were there for a short time. The number of 109 represents about 3.6% of the total. If the same percentage of Iraqis get a similar exposure, that would amount to 936,000. As Iraqis are permanently living in the same contaminated environment, their percentage will be higher.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12903.htm

There is a HUGE SCANDAL brewing here and I'm going to start a BLOG to centralize all the information I have collected, which I will duplicate here: those who want to help put it together are welcome...