Pentagon raises Iraq toll in Dec. to 72

[rainbow4321]

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Pentagon on Monday released three additional names of U.S. servicemen killed in Iraq in December, raising the month's U.S. death toll to 72, including 20 members of the reserves.


December's death toll for members of the Army National Guard, Army Reserve and Marine Corps Reserve - at 20 - was among the higher monthly totals since the war began in March 2003. It compared with an average of 15 over the previous five months. Reserves make up nearly half the 151,000 U.S. troops in Iraq.


Separately, in its weekly report on Iraq casualties, the Walter Reed Army Medical Center said it had received nine additional Iraq battle casualties since Dec. 26, including one in critical condition. Eight of the nine were transferred from the U.S. military's Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, and one was transferred from the Naval Medical Center in Bethesda

[Al_Smith]

1. After election, bring the troops home.

There is no scarcity of reports on battle deaths. There is a scarcity of Congress critters and pundits who want to call a halt. Just who are the leading spokespeople leading the charge out the exit ramp?

[LynnTheDem]

2. That isn't gonna happen

US says "years" for troops to remain in Afghanistan...and according to bush, Afghanistan is already "a total success story" and a "model for Iraq".

Rumsfailed says troops might be out of Iraq by 2008.

[Al_Smith]

3. Where is a new 'Kerry' when he is needed.

Until the Dems can bring themselves to oppose Rumsfeld, they are going nowhere.