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[Rick Faurot]

War News for September 8, 2004
Bring ‘em on: US launches multiple air strikes in Fallujah.
Bring ‘em on: Heavy ground combat reported in Fallujah.
Bring ‘em on: One US soldier killed, one wounded in convoy ambush near Balad.
Bring ‘em on: Fighting continues in Sadr City.
Bring ‘em on: Insurgents kidnap two Italian and two Iraqi aid workers in Baghdad.
Bring ‘em on: Insurgents kidnap deputy governor of al-Anbar province in Fallujah.
Bring ‘em on: One Iraqi killed, five wounded in two bomb attacks in Baquba.
Bring ‘em on: Two Iraqi policemen wounded in Latifiyah ambush.
Bring ‘em on: Son of Mosul deputy governor assassinated.
Bring ‘em on: Three truck drivers killed in two convoy ambushes near Baghdad and Samarra.

[Rick Faurot]

How Many Deaths Will It Take?
By BOB HERBERT
Published: September 10, 2004
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/10/opinion/10herbert.html

It was Vietnam all over again - the heartbreaking head shots captioned with good old American names:

Jose Casanova, Donald J. Cline Jr., Sheldon R. Hawk Eagle, Alyssa R. Peterson.

Eventually there'll be a fine memorial to honor the young Americans whose lives were sacrificed for no good reason in Iraq. Yesterday, under the headline "The Roster of the Dead," The New York Times ran photos of the first thousand or so who were killed.

They were sent off by a president who ran and hid when he was a young man and his country was at war. They fought bravely and died honorably. But as in Vietnam, no amount of valor or heroism can conceal the fact that they were sent off under false pretenses to fight a war that is unwinnable.

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