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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SiouxPal who wrote (47259)	9/6/2004 9:13:42 AM
From: ChinuSFO	Respond to of 81568

The failed policy in Iraq and people question why are our troops left to die there when other countries from the "coalition of the willing" are reducing their troop strength in Iraq. <font size=3> Iraq injury count rose in August U.S. troops see highest toll yet By Karl Vick Updated: 1:10 a.m. ET Sept. 5, 2004 BAGHDAD, Sept. 4 - About 1,100 U.S. soldiers and Marines were wounded in Iraq during August, by far the highest combat injury toll for any month since the war began and an indication of the intensity of battles flaring in urban areas. U.S. medical commanders say the sharp rise in battlefield injuries reflects more than three weeks of fighting by two Army and one Marine battalion in the southern city of Najaf. At the same time, U.S. units frequently faced combat in a sprawling Shiite Muslim slum in Baghdad and in the Sunni cities of Fallujah, Ramadi and Samarra, all of which remain under the control of insurgents two months after the transfer of political authority. <more>...http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5917263/