More Americans and Iraqis die

Today, an American military spokesman, Staff Sgt. Don Dees, said in a telephone interview that seven American marines were killed on Monday, six of them during operations in the restive Al Anbar province west of Baghdad and one in a suicide car bomb attack in the town of Hit. Also on Monday, eleven bodies were found in southwest Baghdad, most shot but two beheaded.

This on the same day we announced some kind of "plan" to leave Iraq bit by bit. My guess is that "restive Al Anbar province" will be one of the last, that violence will continue to rock Iraq, and Bush & Co. will leave before finishing the job in order to not have news reports of dead soliders and marines during the mid-term elections. Politics over policy.
posted by Idle Crank at 8/02/2005 12:02:00 PM