"Meanwhile, the U.S. military ann. the deaths of 2more American troops,"

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buried in the story-------just comma's



http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061218/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

Ex-Iraqi minister escapes; bomb kills 5

By LAUREN FRAYER, Associated Press Writer 28 minutes ago

BAGHDAD, Iraq - The former electricity minister — a dual U.S.-Iraqi citizen who was jailed for corruption — escaped police custody with the help of security agents he once hired to protect him, an anti-corruption official said Monday.

Elsewhere in Baghdad, a car bomb killed five people and wounded at least 19 in the southern Sunni area of Sadiya, near a vegetable market. Though no one immediately claimed responsibility, sectarian conflict between Sunnis and Shiites has fueled much of the recent violence in Baghdad.

Meanwhile, the U.S. military announced the deaths of two more American troops, raising to 59 the number of U.S. personnel killed in December. A Marine assigned to Regimental Combat Team 5 died Saturday, and a soldier with the U.S. Army's 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division died Friday, it said.

At least 2,947 members of the U.S. military have died since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

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1. 2,947

I sure hope we break the magical 3,000 dead barrier before New Years.

Opps, that's my drag racing fan talking.

I get nabbed here at our new building at work to raise and lower the flags around here. I was asked to lower it today and found out that the Connecticut state website calls for all flags at half mast when we lose a soldier in Iraq.

As it should be for a government to show some respect for the people that gave their lives in service to their country. At least they gave their lives to save the US from WMD's. OR was that to liberate Iraq? No, it was to make the Middle East safe for democracy? Nope, I think it was to overthrow that evil dictator? No, sorry, it was to keep all that oil from being controlled by terrorists, which would use the income for oil selling to attack the US? Or was it to move all our bases from Saudi Arabia to Iraq because Bin Laden didn't like all those American bases in his home country?

Anyway, I'm sure there's some good cause somewhere in all this that they gave their young patriotic lives for, even if I can't state it at the moment?

-85% jimmy

[KansDem]

2. All this while Bush ponders his next step...

He doesn't want to be rushed. :eyes: