Coalition Fatalities Pass 2,000

by Chris Bowers, Thu Sep 16, 2004 at 03:16:07 PM EDT

USA Today, somewhat surprisingly, has a good article on problems in Iraq that generally do not appear in headlines or top stories (emphasis mine):U.S. plans had called for Iraq's new government and Prime Minister Ayad Allawi to be gaining respect and organizing for national elections now. Instead insurgents appear more powerful than ever. By some counts, more than three dozen Iraqi cities and towns are in the hands of leaders hostile to the new government and the United States, and apparently able to dispatch gunmen and suicide bombers at will. The resistance that was spotty a year ago now launches an average of more than 50 attacks against U.S. or coalition forces a day.

Some of the most horrific attacks have been aimed at those cooperating with the United States and the U.S.-backed government: More than 700 Iraqi police officers have been killed.

Increasingly, the U.S. civil and military effort in Iraq appears aimed at keeping the country from sliding into chaos rather than moving ahead. That change was underscored this week when the Bush administration said it was shifting more than $3 billion from its Iraq reconstruction budget to boost security.

With over 700 Iraqi police fatalities, 151 contractor fatalities, and 1,164 coalition military fatalities, security forces in Iraq have now suffered more than 2,000 fatalities.

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January election in Iraq
One of today's CNN stories includes this statement:

"I think that anybody that thinks that you can hold elections in the Sunni Triangle by the end of January is really smoking something," military historian Frank Fukuyama said.

Another CNN story includes this statement by Senator John Kerry:  

"I believe you deserve a president who isn't going to gild that truth or gild our national security with politics, who is not going to ignore his own intelligence, who isn't going to live in a different world of spin, who will give the American people the truth, not a fantasy world of spin ... ," Kerry said.

How much more will it take before Americans wake up and understand how many lies we are being told by the Bush administration?  Perhaps GW Bush himself doesn't even know--he must really be "smoking something" in order to keep that fantasy world  of his spinning.....

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