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...American occupation, nor with the viability of that seed of peace America is meant to be sowing there. Wars are always paid in blood and numbered in lives lost, the value of that sacrifice doesn't rise or fall like penny stock depending on the popularity of a mission. The 3,000th death is as the first - dying being the pitiable but inextricable consequence...
...Veterans Day 2005, not long after the death toll reached 2,000, President Bush repeated his assertion that "the best way to honor the sacrifice of our fallen troops is to complete the mission." Have these deathly numbers now become omens of even more somber ones to come? The 3,000 mark arrives at a moment when the President is said to be contemplating real change - perhaps even more troops in Iraq. On December 20, Bush said of the war in Iraq, "I believe that we're going to win. I believe that. And by the way, if I didn...
...endorse a surge of up to 30,000 troops when he gives his next-steps-on-Iraq speech early next month. There is no word yet on how many troops would be involved or how long they might be there. Nor is there any indication yet on what the mission would be, though the President said there had to be one and he talked this week a lot about the security of the Iraqi people. The surge has been backed by a handful of neoconservatives in and out of the government, along with some retired generals, most of whom have...
...from the collection of a married couple very like the people who are about to force this music on you. These CDs play while the harder-working, more creative member of the pair decks the halls, the bedroom, the bathroom and the lobby. For Mary, it's a sacred mission that takes weeks. And while she dresses the tree, I listen again to the renditions of these songs - which from time to time have made me cringe - and marvel at their emotive and staying power. The albums are listed in chronological order of their original release...
...Iraq, the Haditha revelations simply reinforced existing negative perceptions of the U.S. mission, and it's unlikely that even by throwing the book at the men responsible, the U.S. military will earn the goodwill of the civilian population - particularly the Sunnis, who were the victims in Haditha. What's more, graphic descriptions of U.S. soldiers allegedly gunning down innocents - 10 of them women and children - in an apparent frenzy of violent frustration at their inability to find an enemy camouflaging himself in the civilian population are unlikely to help raise the morale of a U.S. public grown weary of what...