Bush Says Troop Deaths In Iraq Are Price Of Victory

[Jcrowley]

US says troop deaths in Iraq are price of victory

dpa German Press Agency
Published: Wednesday October 18, 2006

Washington- US military deaths in Iraq are the price of fighting for victory in the battle against terrorism, the White House said Wednesday, as the US military reported 10 soldiers killed in a single day. The casualties in a string of separate attacks Tuesday raised this month's US death toll above 60, making October already one of the bloodiest months for US troops since the March 2003 invasion.

Asked by a reporter whether the latest deaths would prompt US President George W Bush to change strategy, White House spokesman Tony Snow said: "No, the strategy is to win."

Bush "grieves for the people who have served" in Iraq, but victory "comes at a cost," Snow said.

US officials have blamed the recent surge in violence in part on stepped-up fighting between sectarian militias and US and Iraqi forces.

http://rawstory.com/news/2006/US_says_troop_deaths_in_Iraq_are_pr_10182006.html

[Rex]

1. No George, they are the price of your war crimes.

nt

[Imagevision]

2. Bush is so lost, he only knows stay the course to nothing

[upi402]

3. free for him. He doesn't even have to go AWOL now!

[jobycom]

4. And yet he still manages it. On 9-11, on 8-29... Pray your home town

never needs him.

[jobycom]

5. They are the price of our nation's hubris. nt

[bridgit]

6. canons need fodder, a dead & long since rotting Napoleon could have...

told him that x(

[Maraya1969]

7. "Victory comes at a cost" to other people. G.W.Bush

[w8liftinglady]

8. will I be deemed an enemy combatant if I tell him to go "F" himself?

just curious

[Old and In the Way]

9. There is no victory to be had....just managing the extent of our losses.

W - Too stupid to know it, too stupid to be President.

[Imagevision]

10. What is the bloddy noble cause?? 340 billion? 20,000 maimed and now

doofus says; "change and adapt if staying the course isn't working" sick son-of-a-bitch!

[Frazzled Educator]

11. Why aren't you sending Jenna, Barbara, Pierce and George P. Bush

if dying for your cause is so fucking noble?

[subterranean]

12. Our strategy in Iraq has led to more and more violence

And by God, we're going to stick with the strategy until the violence stops!
If hundreds or thousands more of our troops have to die, well, that's a price Bush is willing to pay.