Brownwatch: Death Toll Continues to Rise: 632 Dead American Soldiers in Iraq Since Democrats Promised Withdrawal

by angryindian | May 28, 2007 at 10:42 am

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The Democracts are utterly useless. The rest of the House is simply complicit in the mass murder of Arabs.

Yes, I dare say it. And we are all guilt in this supposed democracy. And sadly, we may also be required to pay this debt with our own lives and freedoms. - The Angryindian

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From Intelligentaindigena Novajoservo:

AP
-Americans have opened nearly 1,000 new graves to bury U.S. troops
killed in Iraq since Memorial Day a year ago. The figure is telling —
and expected to rise in coming months.

In the period from
Memorial Day 2006 through Saturday, 980 soldiers and Marines died in
Iraq, compared to 807 deaths in the previous year. And with the Baghdad
security operation now 3 1/2 months old, even President Bush has
predicted a difficult summer for U.S. forces.

"It could be a bloody — it could be a very difficult August," he said last week.

U.S.
commander Gen. David Petraeus on Saturday acknowledged the increase in
casualties as a result of the American surge in forces to regain
control of Baghdad.

"We're doing heavy fighting. This is a fight. There's a war on out there," he told reporters at al-Asad Airbase in western Iraq.

Michael
O'Hanlon, a military analyst with the Brookings Institution and a
consultant to the bipartisan Iraq Study Group, said the increased
casualties were a result of the security operation.

Thousands
more American soldiers are patrolling the streets and living in
isolated outposts across Baghdad, leaving them more vulnerable to
attack. He also said the increase in raids on extremist Shiite
militiamen had brought a wave of retaliatory attacks.

"We're out
there on the streets a lot more. There are more patrols going on every
day, so we're more open to attacks," O'Hanlon said.