Death Toll of U.S. Troops in Iraq Rising

[Contrary1]

AP: More U.S. Troops Died in Iraq Combat Over Past 4 Months Than in Any Similar Period of War

"WASHINGTON Feb 7, 2007 (AP)— More American troops were killed in combat in Iraq over the past four months at least 334 through Jan. 31 than in any comparable stretch since the war began, according to an Associated Press analysis of casualty records.

Not since the bloody battle for Fallujah in 2004 has the death toll spiked so high.

The reason is that U.S. soldiers and Marines are fighting more battles in the streets of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, and other cities. And while hostile forces are using a variety of weaponry, the top killer is the roadside bomb.

In some respects it is the urban warfare that U.S. commanders thought they had managed to largely avoid after U.S. troops entered Baghdad in early April 2003 and quickly toppled the Saddam Hussein regime.

And with President Bush now sending thousands more U.S. troops to Baghdad and western Anbar province, despite opposition in Congress and the American public's increasing war weariness, the prospect looms of even higher casualties..."

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=2855404

[saigon68]

1. They are dying for NeoCon corporate profits

And for an upper class like Paris Hilton that loves to have a good time

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

2. Our troops are engaged in street fighting in Baghdad, the very scenario we feared and were falsely

assured would never happen, by the lying, criminal cabal.

And, now, they are coming after our kids, our neighbors, our friends, us, to add to the bloodbath over there. MKJ

[flamin lib]

3. The Sunnis are buying Strela shoulder fired ground to air

missiles. Very similar to the Stingers we gave to the Mujadaheen in Afghanistan. Given that that the Shiites, insurgents, Iraqi Military/police don't have helicopters and that there have been 5 US helicopters shot down in the last month who do you thing they plan to use them on?

Where'd they get the money to buy Strela missiles? Saudi Arabia.

[karlrschneider]

4. 27 just this month.

:grr: