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Bloodiest so Far in Iraq

Since we were supposedly be slowing pulling out of Iraq many deaths have occurred since then. This year in October we have had the bloodiest month, surpassing April's 76 troops killed with 83 already this month. This has been attributed to many different bombings and Iraqi civilian deaths have also risen.

Ramadan seems to be the reason for this. Insurgent attacks have risen and thus forth Iraqi civilians have been killed at an alarming rate in this month, almost doubling the normal per day. On average of 43 Iraqis are killed per day which about 16 more then the average since April 2005. This increase of Iraqi civilians leads me to the fact that more attacks means more soldiers lives lost as well.

If it isn't bad enough that more and more lives are being lost on both sides a U.S. Senior State Department diplomat criticized the handling of the Iraq war as "stupid" and "arrogant". This I believe we could all possibly agree on.

This article took my by surprise, I thought death tolls SHOULD be lowering but I guess not. They seem to be increasing and we have just lost more and more lives that don't need to be lost. It also seems as if the Iraqi army could control the country because it already is taking on many of the attacks by themselves and have done some investigations containing false "cards" to individuals that could lead them into a terrorist trap by going on a fake hot line. The Iraqi group seemed to do a good job in snooping this plot out. I believe we need to pull out now and save as many lives as we can.

Here also is a link that has breakdown's of the fatalities in Iraq. Monthly, civilians, yearly, etc. http://www.icasualties.org/oif/

posted by Anonymous @ 10/26/2006 08:16:00 PM