Eleven* Soldiers Killed In Iraq In The Last Two Days. What's Bush's Plan?

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"Stay the Course is Not a Plan" --Howard Dean


5 more US soldiers killed in Iraq

Afp, Reuters, Baghdad

Five more American soldiers have died in Iraq, the US military announced yesterday, four days before voting in congressional elections that have been dominated by controversy over the war.

Three US soldiers were killed in a single attack on Thursday afternoon when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb in Baghdad, the war-torn capital where 15,000 US personnel are battling to contain a vicious sectarian conflict.

On the same day, a marine was killed in Anbar province in the west of the country, the heartland of the al-Qaeda militant group in Iraq, a US statement said, while confirming another death "due to non-combat causes" on Wednesday.

The deaths brought to 2,822 the number of US troops to have died in Iraq since the March 2003 US invasion, and the mounting toll gives more ammunition to critics of President George W Bush's strategy.

report: http://www.thedailystar.net/2006/11/04/d61104012415.htm


*11 U.S. deaths, CNN

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1. AUDIENCE: What's your plan?

THE PRESIDENT: The truth is, the Democrats can't answer that question. Harsh criticism is not a plan for victory. Second-guessing is not a strategy. (Applause.) We have a plan for victory. We have a plan to secure this country, and part of our plan is to send Jim Talent back to the United States Senate. (Applause.)

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/11/20061103-1.html

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2. Repubs think ALL rising numbers are good, like the stock market