US marine killed in west of Baghdad (1431)

[leftchick]

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-01/31/content_2530838.htm

BAGHDAD, Jan. 31 (Xinhuanet) -- One US marine was killed in action in the flashpoint Anbar province west of Baghdad. The US military said Monday.

The killed marine, assigned to the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, was killed while conducted security operations on Sunday, the military said in a statement.

It did not give further details saying "the release of more details about the incident could place our personnel at greater risk."

Over, 1,400 US service members have been killed in Iraq since the US-led invasion in March 2003. Enditem

http://icasualties.org/oif/

Military Fatalities: By Time Period

Period US UK Other* Total Avg Days
3 574 25 27 626 2.88 217
2 717 27 58 802 1.89 424
1 140 33 0 173 4.02 43
Total 1431 85 85 1601 2.34 684

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Time Periods Defined
Latest Fatality: Jan 30, 2005


Military Fatalities: By Month
Period US UK Other* Total Avg Days
1-2005 98 9 10 117 3.77 31

[Judi Lynn]

1. This is bad. Remember when they were closing in on 1,000?

That was during the pResidential campaign. Seems so long ago.

So now they're heading toward refusing information, claiming it could place personel at risk. This from an administration which doesn't hesitate to target and reveal well-trained C.I.A. personel, like Ms. Flame.

Flip-flopping liars and cheats. American soldiers shouldn't have to pay the price for _Bush's contempt for Americans with their own lives.

[Skittles]

2. *sigh*

and the beat goes on

[aikido15]

3. OUT NOW!

What the fuck is it going to take to end this war?

[leftchick]

4. The USA has NO intention of EVER leaving IRAQ!

Think... Permanent Presence!

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2281&ncid=742&e=5&u=/thenation/20050118/cm_thenation/132132


Though the media ignored Kerry's statement and failed to do any substantive follow-up research, his comments were well-grounded in reality. On the day of the debate the Christian Science Monitor spotlighted the findings of defense specialist John Pike, whose website, GlobalSecurity.org, located twelve "enduring bases" in Iraq, including satellite photos and names. In March, the Chicago Tribune reported that US engineers were constructing fourteen such long-term encampments--the number Kerry referred to. The New York Times previously placed the number at four.


While the exact figure may change, suspicions of undisclosed US imperial plans--exemplified by permanent military bases--rightfully linger. Before the war, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz suggested moving US troops stationed in Saudi Arabia into Iraq. In October, a survey by the University of Maryland's Program on International Policy Attitudes found that two-thirds of respondents disapproved of a permanent military presence, even though more than half thought the US would build the bases anyway.


Now comes a report in the New York Sun by Eli Lake revealing that the Pentagon (news - web sites) is building a permanent military communications system in Iraq, a necessary foundation for any lasting troop presence. The new network will comprise twelve communications towers throughout Iraq, linking Camp Victory in Baghdad to other existing (and future) bases across the country, eventually connecting with US bases in Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Afghanistan (news - web sites).


"People need to get realistic and think in terms of our presence being in Iraq for a generation or until democratic stability in the region is reached," Dewey Clarridge, the CIA (news - web sites)'s former chief of Arab operations (and Iran-contra point man), told the Sun.

[ap0c]

5. Its sad

Sometimes I want to go to Irak and be a human sheeled for the freedom fighters but I don't want to get killed. We should'nt be there for oil when we can by it from places like brazil and jamaica instead and we don't have to kill them to by it from them.

[Kolesar]

6. 47% Oppose the war. We should have a million at antiwar protest rallies!

Or is our support an inch deep?

[ausiedownunderground]

7. The "Draft" will fix up Democrat's apathy!!!!

Well thats what the "Rest of the World" is sweating on!

[0007]

8. The election is a farce and just another "Dog and Pony show

the Iraqi new crime family along with junior's crime family and to give the world a show, a show that the United States can stay in Iraq permanently and use those fourteen military installations to gain further control over the Middle East.