WP (pAOI) One-Day Iraq Toll Is Highest for U.S. In Many Months

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/18/AR2006101800239.html

One-Day Iraq Toll Is Highest for U.S. In Many Months

By Ellen Knickmeyer
Washington Post Foreign Service
Thursday, October 19, 2006; Page A01

BAGHDAD, Oct. 18 -- A roadside bombing and other attacks killed 10 American troops across Iraq on Tuesday, the U.S. military reported Wednesday, making it the deadliest day of combat for U.S. forces in 10 months.

The one-day toll, part of what the U.S. military has said is a 43 percent increase in attacks on U.S. and Iraqi forces in the capital since midsummer, occurred as casualties among Iraqi troops and civilians are soaring far higher than at any previous time in the war, according to U.S. and Iraqi tallies.

• Faces of the Fallen

The deaths underscore the surging nature of sectarian violence and the increasing lethality of roadside bombs, which claim the most American lives in Iraq despite efforts to bolster armor and use high-technology devices to disable bombs.

Five of the American troop deaths Tuesday were caused by bombs. Four soldiers were killed in Baghdad about 6:50 a.m. when a planted bomb exploded under their vehicle, the U.S. military said in a statement. Another bomb killed a single soldier north of the capital.

[Rex]

1. Come on George, we are NOT winning Iraq. Stop acting like

you know shit about the military! Give it up you war criminal! Bring our troops home NOW!

[rodeodance]

3. "....his plan is to win." (says tony boy)

.....Asked whether the 10 deaths Tuesday would make Bush reconsider his plans for Iraq, White House spokesman Tony Snow said, "No, his plan is to win."

"The president understands not only the difficulty of it, but he grieves for the people who have served with valor," Snow said in Washington. "But as everybody says correctly, we've got to win. And that comes at a cost."

[filer]

6. We'll win that war when pigs are Raptured.

This is Dubya's Vietnam, and history will condemn him for it.

[rodeodance]

2. here are Rummy's comments:

...U.S. officials sought Wednesday to bolster support for the war.

"It will be long, and it will be hard. I wish it were otherwise," Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said in a speech at Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base in Montgomery, Ala. "Certainly, seeing the violence on television is a temptation for people to wonder: How will it end?"

"There are those who say, well, it is somebody else's problem," he said. But he voiced confidence that "the wave of violence" in Iraq will ultimately be defeated, saying Iraqi security forces are growing more capable.

[Rex]

4. Iraqi security forces are growing the insurgent forces!

Stupid Rummy, you can't fight Iraqis with Iraqis! Stupid little man.

[bamacrat]

5. How much longer can we let this happen?

It seems as though this is all a show, a joke that this regime seem to heep telling hoping to keep a little power. Why is congress letting this happen, aside from the obvious money reasons, why are they letting people die just cause?

[spindrifter]

7. If we ever get the truth about Forward

Operating Base Falcon's ammo dump blowing up, the figures on American casualties may be much, much higher.

[madrchsod]

9. no one knows...

even the iraqi bloggers who lived or had friends near there. several bloggers in iraq said thereis a blackout of information on what happened. one blogger lived not far from the ammo dump and said it burned for days but nothing other than it happened
who ever did this knew -exactly- where to fire the motars to do the most damage...

[madrchsod]

8. i just saw this at iraqi casualties

17,662 us troops(all services) were medically air transported for diseases. what diseases were they medically air transported for? only 6273 us troops were med air transported due to combat wounds...

http://www.icasualties.org/oif/
Iraq Coalition Casualties

[Erika]

10. Baffling, isn't it?

Be advised the Bushbots don't care. It will be an issue only to the democrats.

[RamboLiberal]

11. Why isn't a Young Republican Serving instead of this casualty

http://www.katu.com/news/local/4429767.html

VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) - A Vancouver soldier is one of ten killed this week by a roadside bomb in Iraq.

Ron Paulson spent 14 years in the Army and then another 13 years as an inactive reservist. At 52 years old, he was called up for active duty.

When Paulson finished his service in 1992, soldiers were given a choice - take a lump sum of $30,000 and be done, or take an annual payment of $7,000 with a catch.

He said he went for the annual, but that meant he had to stay in the inactive reserve to get it, which is why he ended up getting called back in to service.

Paulson said that roadside bombs were his biggest concern. His family confirmed his death Wednesday.



This man served more than his time - why the hell didn't one of the Young Republican Yellow Elephants serve in his stead? This man didn't owe this country any more - he should've been allowed to live out his life in peace!

[mhatrw]

12. U.S. war casualties make deadly surge (70 so far this month)

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/bal-te.troops19oct19,0,2795364.story?coll=bal-home-headlines

The death toll for U.S. troops in Iraq has reached 70 so far this month, a rate that if sustained would make October the deadliest month for Americans since the war began, military officials said yesterday. Army officers in Washington and Baghdad attributed the spike in violence to Ramadan, which has become known for a sharp rise in sectarian killing in Iraq. The Islamic holy month ends next week.

President Bush and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld have said in the past year that higher casualties are an indication of progress as U.S. forces push into hostile neighborhoods in Baghdad to root out sectarian death squads. But other analysts, noting a growing number of soldiers killed by small-arms fire, conclude that U.S. troops increasingly are caught in the murderous middle between Sunni and Shiite extremists in what has become a religious civil war.

"The killing is not incidental any more," said retired Army Maj. Gen. Robert H. Scales, former commandant of the U.S. Army War College. "Suicide bombs are still a threat, but we are seeing an increase in close combat, meaning Americans are being caught in the crossfire, quite literally."

The spike in casualties, which includes an increasing number of badly wounded soldiers and Marines, seemed likely to intensify pressures on the Bush administration for a major change in strategy in Iraq as demanded by partisan critics. A similar call was recently suggested by such Republican stalwarts as Sen. John W. Warner of Virginia, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, and former Secretary of State James A. Baker III, co-chair of a panel expected to propose a significant shift in U.S. strategy in Iraq after the general election.

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[ShortnFiery]

13. Yes, but the Right Wing Kool-Aid drinkers blame Liberal Democrats

AS IF! :( Everything that negatively effects The Republican Candidates in this upcoming election is some devious plot by us "unclean" Democrats. :thumbsdown:

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

14. "higher casualties are an indication of progress..."

...Certainly sounds like something from the mouth of Rumsfeld. These guys are absolutely without conscience.

[Theduckno2]

15. War is Peace : George Orwell ----- Death is Success : George Bush

I liked your 'photos' especially Rummy.

Bushco suffers from a mentality that would have us believe that worse things were, the better we are doing.

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

16. Thanks. BushCo has set us in a kind of...

...Bizarro World---a nighmarish one.