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...death toll climbs among both Iraqi civilians and allied soldiers, it's clear that the war in Iraq is broken, and Bob Gates is now in charge of fixing...
...what those who loved her must now feel. Still, the moment allowed me to begin to grasp the depth of anguish felt now by so many Americans and Iraqis who've lost loved ones to the conflict. It's staggering. The shared miseries already seem bottomless as the death toll climbs higher still with the passing of each day here...
...death toll in Iraq inexorably approaches the 3,000 mark, more and more Americans believe that the war has cost more in blood than it is worth. But the number of dead in this war is, at least by historical standards, relatively small. The Korean War - often, and with good reason, called the "forgotten war" - killed 36,574 U.S. troops in just three years, while World War II took the lives of more than 400,000 American fighters over five devastating years (the Battle of the Bulge alone cost 20,000 U.S. servicemen their lives...
...Passing 3,000 is a prime opportunity to plumb the depths of their own angers about how the war was planned, sold, and executed. Hawks mourn the fact that America has lost its grit. After all, they point out, 3,000 dead is still less than half the annual toll in the worst years of Vietnam. And amid either World War I or II, an America with a far smaller population suffered larger losses on some afternoons in the Pacific or in Europe than today's America has suffered in three and a half years in Iraq...
...Veterans Day 2005, not long after the death toll reached 2,000, President Bush repeated his assertion that "the best way to honor the sacrifice of our fallen troops is to complete the mission." Have these deathly numbers now become omens of even more somber ones to come? The 3,000 mark arrives at a moment when the President is said to be contemplating real change - perhaps even more troops in Iraq. On December 20, Bush said of the war in Iraq, "I believe that we're going to win. I believe that. And by the way, if I didn...