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[StephanieVanbryce]

"There are some who, uh, feel like that, you know, the conditions are such that they can attack us there. My answer is: Bring 'em on. We got the force necessary to deal with the security situation. “ - George W. Bush, July 2, 2003.

WAR NEWS FOR WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30, 2006

"Sometimes, words have consequences you don't intend them to mean. Bring 'em on' is the classic example, when I was really trying to rally the troops and make it clear to them that I fully understood, you know, what a great job they were doing. And those words had an unintended consequence.” George W. Bush, January 13, 2005

..Well…I guess that’s ok, then. Because his intentions were good. And when a good man has good intentions, you can’t really blame him for unintended consequences, right? ..

Baghdad


A bomb exploded in the Shorja wholesale market in Baghdad’s Bab al-Sharji district, killing 24 people and wounding 35.


Two civilians were killed and 21 wounded, including five policemen, when a nearby car bomb exploded after police responded to a small bomb blast near a petrol station.


Baghdad’s Yarmuk hospital received the body of a first lieutenant in the Iraqi army and the bodies of two gunmen killed in clashes in Dura this morning. Dura is one of a group of flashpoint Baghdad neighborhoods that have be chosen by US and Iraqi forces for special protection.


Five bodies washed up on the banks of the Tigris south of the capital. They had been blindfolded and shot in the head in the trademark style of the capital's sectarian death squads.


Four members of one family were killed when mortar bombs hit their house in south Baghdad’s neighbourhood of Al Amel.


An Iraqi army officer was killed and two wounded in a roadside bombing between the central city of Kut and Baghdad.

Buhriz


A roadside bomb killed five members of one family including three women and a child and seriously wounded another woman and child as they travelled in their car near the town of Buhriz.


Hilla


A bomb targeting a crowd of men outside an army recruitment office killed 12 people and wounded 38.


Mosul


Clashes between Iraqi police and insurgents wounded four civilian bystanders in Mosul.


Numaniya


Gunmen killed three brothers in the Iraqi town of Numaniya, 120 km south of Baghdad, police said. The men were Shi'ites who had previously fled a Sunni region further north.


Qaim


Police in the western Iraqi town of Qaim said they found the bodies of two civilians with gunshot wounds to the head and torture marks. It was unclear who the victims were but tribes that control Qaim regularly clash with al Qaeda militants in the region.


Samawa


Clashes between Iraqi police and civilians turned away from an army recruitment centre killed one civilian and wounded nine, including five policemen. Iraqi police said hundreds hoping to land jobs turned violent after they were turned away and threw rocks at policemen, who fired at the crowd.

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[StephanieVanbryce]

Bring ‘em on: U.S. military losses in Iraq and Afghanistan are expected in coming weeks to surpass the death toll of 2,973 victims killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.


The two conflicts, which have lasted longer than most U.S. wars, have now claimed the lives of at least 2,941 troops, a toll that changes daily.


Next month, the duration of combat operations in Iraq will exceed the length of time that U.S. forces fought in Europe during World War II. Operations in Afghanistan have lasted longer than the Civil War and World War II -- with only the Revolutionary War and the Vietnam War lasting longer.


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