UNPRECEDENTED: 4th straight month of 80+ US troop deaths in Iraq;

[tgnyc]

December: 112, Jan: 83, Feb: 80, Mar: 81.
The first such stretch of the ENTIRE war. Works out to an annual rate of nearly 1100. Worst single calendar year was 2004 -- 849 deaths.


The surge is not working.

[lectrobyte]

1. especially given that supposedly our troops are more in hunker

down mode now.

http://icasualties.org/oif/US_chart.aspx

[BuyingThyme]

2. It depends on what your definition of IS is.

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

3. You're aiding the enemy and hurting our troops and sending mixed signals and,...

,...blah, blah, BLECH!!!! :puke:

I am so goddamned sick and tired of hearing the same old propaganda lines over and over and over and over, again, by these perpetually-warring, profiteering power-mongers!

EW!!!! :grr:

[malaise]

4. You must be delusional

McCain was walking around Baghdad.:sarcasm:

On second thoughts, those 80 solders were merely surged to their graves. all it premature rapture.

[karlrschneider]

5. But they're only temporarily dead. JesusBush will resurrect them just as soon as

the Mission is Accomplished. \



:eyes:

[ComerPerro]

7. God damn, I never thought about it like that. But fundies might honestly believe that

[TahitiNut]

6. FOUR straight months ... 112 killed in December

:cry:

[tgnyc]

8. SHIT! You're right.

[Cabcere]

9. God DAMN it!

:cry: When is this going to end? How many more of our troops must be killed for Bush's ego? Why doesn't he care about them? :cry:

[CrazyOrangeCat]

10. Too much madness.

Too young to die for rich men's games. x(

kick

[NI4NI]

11. More US troops this month than Iraqi troops?

Is that a fact?

[sabra]

12. yep

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070401/NATIONWORLD/704010425/-1/ZONES04

[tgnyc]

13. so the goal of the surge is for US troops to serve as flak cover for Iraqi troops