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...able to hand the country over to Iraqi exiles and a population so grateful that most of the troops would be home by Christmas. Instead, the seventh month following President Bush's May 1 declaration of an end to major combat in Iraq has proved to be the bloodiest yet for U.S. forces - 82 American troops, and a further 35 from coalition allies, were killed in an average of 30 guerrilla attacks a day. The remnants of Saddam's regime that failed to fight for Baghdad had instead scattered and reorganized themselves, and they together with a wider group...
...annals of 20th-century journalism, few names are more ignominious than Walter Duranty. The New York Times’ Moscow correspondent during the 1920s and 1930s, Duranty was by all accounts a liar, a recycler of propaganda and a willful apologist for one of history’s bloodiest tyrants, Joseph Stalin...
...both his personal commitment to the Iraq mission and the immense security difficulties plaguing that mission. In marked contrast to his May 1 victory speech aboard the U.S.S. Lincoln, President Bush went to Baghdad to buoy the spirits of an army still very much at war. November was the bloodiest month for U.S. forces since invading Iraq, with 83 American soldiers, and a further 35 troops from coalition allies, having been killed over 30 days...
October was the bloodiest month yet for the U.S. military occupation of Iraq, and the number of wounded is plainly on the rise. Daily attacks against U.S. troops have tripled. The number of U.S. troops who have died in hostilities in Iraq from May 1, when President Bush declared "major combat operations over," through last week has topped the 114 who died in the invasion and its immediate wake. By week's end 122 U.S. troops had been killed in action in Iraq, for a total of 236. But the number of U.S. wounded since...
...senior commanders to discuss, among other options, remobilizing for war. But whatever the gap between fiction and reality developing on this blighted paradise of palm trees and ivory beaches, there is no mistaking the fundamental truth: the 20-month-old peace process to end Asia's longest and bloodiest civil war is suddenly in serious trouble...