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To: Joe NYC who wrote (200852)	9/8/2004 12:00:17 PM
From: Joe NYC	Respond to of 1575624

Too late to edit, I meant exit.

To: Joe NYC who wrote (200852)	9/8/2004 12:30:41 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1575624

Foreign Aid Agencies Consider Iraq Exit Not to worry. When Kerry is elected, the whole world will rush into Iraq, with troops, assistance. United States will be able to just leisurly exist. Such will be power of Kerry's alliance re-building. Not to worry! When Kerry is elected, we will be sending the RNC over to fight in Iraq while we bring our troops home. Get your AK-14 cleaned and ready to go. I understand jr. will be your commander........it should be fun!

To: Joe NYC who wrote (200852)	9/8/2004 12:38:02 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1575624

RECORD COMBAT INJURY NUMBERS August takes a heavy toll: 1,100 wounded in Iraq U.S. medical commanders say battlefield wounds suffered by U.S. soldiers and Marines reflect intensity of fights in urban areas BY KARL VICK THE WASHINGTON POST September 6, 2004 BAGHDAD, Iraq - About 1,100 U.S. soldiers and Marines were wounded in Iraq last month, 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 Shia 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. "They were doing battlefield urban operations in four places at one time," said Lt. Col. Albert Maas, operations officer for the 2nd Medical Brigade, which oversees U.S. combat hospitals in Iraq. "It's like working in downtown Detroit. You're going literally building to building." Last month's toll of 1,112 compared with 533 troops injured in July, 589 in June and 818 in May, according to Globalsecurity.org, based in Alexandria, Va. Change in toll The sharp rise in wounded was, for the first time, accompanied by a far less steep climb in battlefield fatalities. As of Friday, 976 U.S. service members had died since the start of the war in March of last year, according to the Defense Department. Almost 7,000 have been wounded. Until last month, however, the monthly tallies of fatalities and wounded rose and fell roughly proportionally. In August, 66 U.S. service personnel were killed in Iraq, according to the Defense Department. The toll was the highest since May, when 80 fatalities were recorded. But it was about half the 135 U.S. combat deaths in April, when a sporadic guerrilla war that had largely been confined to the so-called Sunni Triangle north and west of Baghdad spread to cities across the Shia Muslim belt in southern Iraq. Continued............. newsday.com