U.S. Troop Deaths in Iraq Again Rising (worst 10-day period since Nov.)

[Barrett808]

U.S. Troop Deaths in Iraq Again Rising
Fri Mar 26, 7:19 PM ET
By ROBERT BURNS, AP Military Writer

WASHINGTON - After a marked decline in U.S. troop deaths in Iraq in February, the toll is again escalating.

So far this month 37 U.S. troops and two Department of the Army civilians have died, according to the Pentagon's count. The two civilians, Fern L. Holland and Robert J. Zangas, were the first Pentagon civilians to be killed in Iraq. They were slain by Iraqi policemen on March 9.

The Pentagon's count does not include a Marine who was reported killed Friday in heavy fighting in the city of Fallujah, west of Baghdad. The Marine's name has not been released so he is not yet on the Pentagon list.

On Thursday another Marine, Lance Cpl. Jeffrey C. Burgess, 20, of Plymouth, Mass., was killed near Fallujah. This week, the Marines took over authority in Fallujah and surrounding areas from the Army's 82nd Airborne Division. The city is situated in the so-called Sunni Triangle, where support for Saddam Hussein was strong and rebel attacks on American forces are frequent.

...

Mid-March saw the heaviest death toll for any 10-day period since November, which was the deadliest month of the war so far.

(more)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040327/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_us_toll_rising_2

[Mari333]

1. The never ending Civil War.

and the media ignores it. The blood is on their hands, they have all the information, and they had all the information before so this wouldnt have even started. This bloodbath will go down in History , as did Vietnam, and the White House will be shown for the murdering lying thieves and tyrants they are. This will truly be the most hated pResident ever.
and its not over.
More will die.
A draft is going to happen.
bring them home now.
http://www.bringthemhomenow.com
bring my kid home now.

[bluestateguy]

2. Shut up with that!

Things in Iraq are improving every day! The liberal media just won't say so! Why don't they report all the good things happening in Iraq? Why, just yesterday 20 Iraqi children went to school without being blown up, you don't hear THAT from the liberal media, hmmm!!

[Ripley]

3. I just lost respect for Gary Sinise.

Saw him on CNN the other day. He is working with some group to supply the newly rebuilt Iraqi schools. He got teary eyed when he talked about being over there and watching the children climb on the soldiers with joy. :puke:

He was going on about how great it was our soldiers put floors and windows in their school buildings. Well, that's nice. And I suppose he is doing something humanitarian. It's just too bad Gary doesn't come down here to Alabama and see the kids in trailer schools with no A/C or tornado shelter that are using 15 year old math books.

[bluestateguy]

5. He'd rather play George Wallace in a movie

That's his contribution to Alabama.

[spinbaby]

4. Lunaville says 42 this month

For a while there in February it looked like things might improve. I feel so badly for the families of the young people dying over there.

[Moderator]

6. Locking

the story is more than 12 hours old. Please review LBN rules. Thanks.