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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (446475)	8/22/2003 8:44:58 AM
From: JakeStraw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769669

jla, Funny how tejek shrinks when asked a direct question or called on something he/she posts!

To: jlallen who wrote (446475)	8/22/2003 1:19:43 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769669

How's this for a clue? ********************************************************** Two More US Troops Die in Iraq BAGHDAD (Aug. 22) - A U.S. Marine was killed in action south of Baghdad, a military spokesman said on Friday, as Washington pushed on with diplomatic efforts to get more countries to send troops to Iraq. The spokesman said the Marine, a member of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, had been killed in or near the city of Hilla, 60 miles south of the capital on Thursday. He had no more information on the incident. U.S. soldiers have been the targets of daily violence since the end of the war that ousted Saddam Hussein, but such attacks were overshadowed this week by the truck bombing of the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad that killed 24 people. The marine's death brings to 64 the number of U.S. military personnel killed by hostile action since President Bush declared major combat over on May 1. The military said another U.S. soldier was killed and six were wounded in a fire at a small arms range in Baghdad on Thursday. There was no information on the cause of the blaze. Residents in Ramadi, a hotbed of anti-American violence some 60 miles west of Baghdad, said a rocket-propelled grenade struck a U.S. military vehicle on Friday. There was no immediate word from the U.S. military on any casualties. The United States blames Saddam loyalists for much of the violence against its troops and is hunting the ousted president and his top lieutenants. It announced the capture of Saddam's feared cousin and aide ''Chemical Ali'' Hassan al-Majid on Thursday. Majid was number five on a U.S. list of 55 most-wanted Iraqi fugitives. He got his nickname for using poison gas against Iraq's Kurdish population in the late 1980s. DIPLOMATIC PUSH The United States and Britain have made a renewed push for more help in Iraq in the wake of the U.N. bombing, hoping countries may have become more willing to commit troops as a sign of international solidarity. A previously unknown Islamist group claimed responsibility for Tuesday's suspected suicide bombing, Dubai-based Al Arabiya reported. The Arabic television channel said the group called itself the ''Armed Vanguards of the Second Mohammed Army.'' Secretary of State Colin Powell met U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Thursday and said he was exploring a new Security Council resolution that ''might encourage others'' to support efforts to stabilize Iraq. ''We're looking forward to language that might call on member states to do more,'' Powell said. One purpose of a new resolution would be to get Muslim troops into Iraq, from Pakistan and Middle Eastern countries, as well as forces from India and other countries that have refused to send soldiers without U.N. authorization. But France immediately said Washington would have to broaden the political role of the United Nations if it wanted other states to pitch in on the military side. ''To share the burden and the responsibilities in a world of equal and sovereign nations, also means sharing information and authority,'' French envoy Michel Duclos told a Security Council discussion. Russia's U.N. Ambassador Sergei Lavrov agreed, while German envoy Wolfgang Trautwein called for a ''wider U.N. role in the political field'' and ''broader military cooperation.'' France, Russia and Germany opposed the U.S.-British invasion of Iraq. Reut05:04 08-22-03 Copyright 2003 Reuters Limited.