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...storm and subsequent flooding represent one of the most significant national disasters in American history. Hundreds of fatalities throughout the Gulf Coast have already been reported, and Nagin has speculated that the death toll may be in the thousands, a number that grows as rescue workers and police officers face a seething and hungry population...
...Battalion, 25th Marines. Two days later, 14 Marines, nine from that outfit, were killed by a triple-strength antitank bomb that flipped their amphibious assault vehicle into the air, igniting the fuel and ammunition inside and incinerating all but one of the occupants. The two attacks brought the death toll for U.S. troops to 29 in the space of a week and served as a grisly reminder of how brutally efficient and adaptive the insurgents...
...Australian Army's 2/10th Battalion, was one of more than 500,000 men from his country and New Zealand who traveled overseas to fight in World War II. The sacrifices they made are chastening to recount: Australia lost nearly 34,000 killed; New Zealand's 12,000 toll was the highest per head of population of any Commonwealth nation - at 6,700 per million, more than Britain's 5,100 or Australia...
...ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, discussing how to get Iraq's squabbling political factions to reach a compromise on a draft constitution by next Monday, the target date set last year by the U.S. When she met with TIME, Rice argued against focusing solely on the rising death toll. "It's a lot easier to see the violence and suicide bombing than to see the rather quiet political progress that's going on in parallel," she says...
...like "They want to destroy our way of life" and "They hate our freedom." We are the worst kind of trespassers, with no legitimate business in Middle Eastern countries. The West is driven by a hunger for their oil. We continue to deal with unscrupulous royalty while the death toll rises. We must wake up and get out of the Middle East. Emily Zermeno Houston...