US Casualties: 9,000 Dead In Iraq?

There is a time for sorrow and a time for anger. This article from MMN, The Extremely High Price of Bushism, packs plenty of pent-up anger:

Bush has greatly harmed the people, greatly harmed the environment, greatly harmed democracy, greatly harmed the constitution, greatly harmed the prestige of the nation, and he smiles and smirks and acts as if he is proud of himself.

The article also spreads this intriguing rumour:

Even today, word is out that the Bush administration is suspected of playing politics with the numbers of American soldiers killed in Iraq, and only listing numbers of soldiers who actually died in battle as war dead, but not including those who died in hospitals or from war wounds after being shipped to Germany or even to the United States. Some are saying that the Bush deception is concealing an estimated 9000 deaths of American soldiers in the Bush War of Aggression in Iraq, a much higher cost than the 1800+ deaths the Bushites are publicly acknowledging.

Is it possible? Anyone who has been paying attention knows it is all too possible...