Bush's "Progress" in Iraq killed over 500 in the past week

[Ava]

BAGHDAD - Suicide bombers and militiamen fought back ferociously in the seventh week of the Baghdad security crackdown, killing at least 508 people in the past six days, but the government vowed Friday it would win the race against terrorism and despair.

As the deadly week drew to an end on the Muslim day of rest and prayer, radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr blamed the United States for the violence and called for a huge anti-American demonstration April 9, the fourth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad.

Marketplaces in Baghdad, Tal Afar and Khalis stood in ruins. Clean up crews shoveled broken glass and debris into wheelbarrows in bloodstained streets. Bomb victims in wooden coffins were hoisted atop cars and vans for the trip south for burial in the Shiite holy city of Najaf.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070330/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

At least nine American troops were killed this week - 79 have died this month:

Sgt. Jason W. Swiger, 24
Cpl. Jason Nunez, 22
Pfc. Orlando E. Gonzalez, 21
Pfc. Anthony J. White, 21
Spc. Sean K. McDonald, 21
Master Sgt. Sean M. Thomas, 33
Staff Sgt. Marcus A. Golczynski, 30
Sgt. Curtis J. Forshey, 22
The identity of another U.S. Soldier killed yesterday were not yet released pending notification of relatives.


But according Mrs. Bush:

This is their opportunity to seize the moment—ahhh—to build a really good and stable country. And many parts of Iraq are stable ahh..now. But, of course, what we see on television is the one bombing a day that discourages everybody.



BRING THEM HOME!

[Major Hogwash]

1. Thank you for remembering the soldiers that have been killed this month, Ava.

Lately CNN hasn't talked about it much.
I guess the Anna Nicole show isn't over yet.

The numbers of the dead keep rising, but more people are conscerned with the Dow Jones average than the number of men and women being killed daily in Iraq.

It's just like it was back during the Vietnam war, everyone goes about their business and acts like it's happening to someone else, not to us.

We have really lost a sense of togetherness in this country over this Iraq war.
I remember when the Republicans were concerned about the possibility of our soldiers being killed in the Bosnian war just a short 10 years ago.

But, now, since it was Bush that started this war, those same Republicans look the other way and claim that they have a mission to do over in Iraq.
Yet, they can't define what that mission is.

And now this story about Tillman comes out.
It's enough to make me sick.