Word: tolls
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While widespread doubts in the Pentagon remain that the U.S. troop surge is going to work, one thing is clear: It is becoming increasingly costly in terms of American blood. As May comes to a close, the death toll for U.S. troops in Iraq measured over a two-month period has reached an all-time high. Military officials had predicted such a spike as General David Petraeus began to flow close to 30,000 more U.S. troops into greater Baghdad, stationing many in small outposts dotted across the region. Unfortunately, it's one prediction that the brass got right...
...candidate like Senator Barack H. Obama appears in the national spotlight. His promise to create a new kind of politics seems unsubstantiated and unrealistic. It is easy to assume that he is just a pretty face, one that will fade away as the long campaign season takes its toll...
...practice continued after Saddam's fall. Many of Baghdad's major intersections became festooned with black banners. The mounting death toll from suicide bombings and roadside explosions led to a boom in the funerary industry - coffin makers, grave diggers, caterers. Wakes were often held in mosques, and before sectarian hatreds flared up it was not uncommon for Sunnis to use Shi'ite mosques, or the other way around...
...divisions. The typical division contains 10,000 to 20,000 men. Thus, one can safely estimate that there are upwards of one hundred million men under arms at the moment, with about thirty million casualties every few hours. If the war continues for a few days longer, its death toll will surpass every other war in human history, combined. In Hilles today, the Quincy HoCo lynched several citizens who had “Currierite features.” Currier House was eliminated early in the war, and a wholesale genocide is considered to have wiped out the entire race. With...
...occur. What we probably have now is a large number of people who possibly did not need mental health services before the storm, but with all the events associated with the storm - the loss of homes, the loss of family members, the loss of community - it takes its toll on people...