CNN reporting 4 or 5 US soldiers dead and 3 more are missing from one battle today

[NNN0LHI]

This isn't getting better.

Don

CNN updated to 4 US soldiers and 1 Iraqi interpreter killed.

Another update: Everyone else is still reporting 5 US soldiers are dead.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. damn them all.

bush, darth, Condi "chevron" Rice, wolfowitz, libby, addington, abu Gonzales, Rumsfeld, Boyten, Pace, Petreaus,

[Postman]

2. Rand Corporation report on Iraq....."foreign fighters a very small percentage in Iraq"

http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers/2005/RAND_OP127.pdf

“A very, very small percentage of foreign fighters," Major General Odierno maintains, are responsible for the attacks on American Forces.


also....

http://www.rand.org/news/press.06/04.19.html

efforts in Iraq faltered by failing to maintain and improve basic sanitation and drinking water services in the nation's most populated areas, which added to anti-Americanism and support for the insurgency, according to the report....


IRAQ
RAND researchers say that several measurements show that nation-building efforts in Iraq moved too slowly on many health-related fronts that could have improved the daily lives of the nation's population.

In examining the situation in Iraq, the report says:

An estimated 40 percent of the water and sanitation network in Baghdad has been damaged during the conflict. Efforts to rebuild the system — aging and in frail condition before fighting began – have moved slowly, hampered by the nation's widespread security problems and looting.
A year after the major combat phase of the war in Iraq ended, Baghdad's three sewage treatment plants were still inoperable, forcing sewage to be dumped in the Tigris River and putting the nation's population at risk of communicable disease outbreaks. The sewage plants ultimately were repaired, but surveys of Iraqi citizens show that most have been unhappy with the quality of sanitation services — a sign that an opportunity to foster goodwill was lost.
There were notable health successes, including prevention of malnutrition and communicable disease outbreaks immediately after the U.S.-led invasion, and the reopening of Iraq's hospitals in the months after Saddam Hussein was overthrown.
Too many of the early efforts in health were focused on issues such as redesigning medical training programs and designing disease-tracking systems — projects that had little immediate and direct impact on the lives of most Iraqis.
Efforts to address Iraq's health needs have been significantly hurt by the nation's security problems. This has both limited the mobility of workers assigned to health projects and caused policymakers to shift funding from health to security....

[LynnTheDem]

5. If a nation invaded America, we'd fight the invaders.

And a "very, very small percentage" would be "foreign fighters". My little town in Texas would have several "foreign fighters"; people who've legally lived in the US for years but don't have US citizenship.

But shhhhhh, don't let the rightwingnut bushbots see all the reports, including US MILITARY reports, that there are only a handful of "foreign fighters" defending Iraq against the occupiers, the FACT that the majority of freedom fighters in Iraq are, in fact, Iraqis; the bushbots need to have someone to blame the bush regime fuck-up on!

[spanone]

3. bu$h* - the Hague.

[izzie]

4. I guess the army should move into the Green Zone with the Iraq

Congress. Or maybe a two months vacation. I am sick of this madness. Get the USA out of Iraq. Now.

[malaise]

6. Ditto

Time to arrest these war criminals.

[malaise]

7. CSpan just said five dead and

three missing.

[frogcycle]

8. damn

I just finished added three to my website from 5/10. Then these. That brings the month total for Iraq to 41 (4 Afghanistan). That makes a projection for the month of 109. It would bring the average-per-month for the past six months to 100, up from 94 last month. That's because three of the seven highest months of the war are in the last six months. Of the sixteen months with 80 or more fatalities, six have been in the past six months. That 100 figure can be expected to keep climbing. Waiting 'til September to "see if it is working" is a death sentence for 400 or more soldiers.

In all probability some are yet to be reported for yesterday, and this won't be the last for today. So that projection for the month is conservative.


Faces

damn

[Philosoraptor]

9. JESUS we have to bring our people home NOW!

[dogday]

10. My Son came home in November and tells

me he can't be sent back for a year, but I doubt that very much...

The more our soldiers are killed, and mamed, and captured, the more they will need.. I can feel it coming...