BAGHDAD, Iraq, Oct. 30, 2006
October U.S. Deaths In Iraq Top 100
Grim Milestone For Fourth Deadliest Month Of The War As Elections Near
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Play CBS Video Video Deaths Continue In Iraq It was another deadly day for Iraqis - more than 80 were killed across the country. U.S. soldiers inevitably get caught in the war between the two ethnic groups. Lara Logan reports.
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Video Iraqi Security Forces To Grow? CBS News has learned that Gen. George Casey, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, is expected to recommend that Iraqi security forces be increased by up to 100,000. David Martin has more.
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Video Deadly October In Iraq October is now the fourth deadliest month in Iraq since the war began. CBS News chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan reports.
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A paratrooper pays his respects to fallen paratroopers, Sgt. Lester D. Baroncini and Pfc. Stephen D. Bicknell, both infantrymen with Company A, 2nd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, during a memorial ceremony Thursday Oct. 19, 2006, at Forward Operating Base Brassfield-Mora, in this images released by the U.S. Army. (AP)
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In this image released by the U.S. Marines on Oct. 30, 2006, a team of machine gunners fires at an insurgent outside of Patrol Base Steelers, Iraq, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2006. (AP/U.S. Marines)
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In this image released by the U.S. Marines on Monday Oct. 30, 2006, Marines coordinate suppressive fire from a rooftop above Patrol Base Steelers, Iraq, Wednesday Oct. 18, 2006. (AP/U.S. Marines)
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Son hugs his mother as relatives carry coffin with the body of his brother out of Baghdad's al-Sadr hospital in Shiite enclave of Sadr City Baghdad Iraq Monday Oct. 30, 2006. (AP Photo)
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Iraqi man grieves over his relative's body at Baghdad's al-Sadr hospital in Shiite enclave of Sadr City Baghdad Iraq Monday Oct. 30, 2006. (AP Photo)
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Interactive Battle For Iraq The government, the insurgency, key players, background and photos.
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A member of the 89th Military Police Brigade was killed in east Baghdad on Monday, and a Marine died in fighting in insurgent-plagued Anbar province the day before, raising to 101 the number of U.S. service members killed in a bloody October, the fourth-deadliest month of the war. At least 2,814 American forces have died since the war began in March 2003.
More American soldiers die in the Anbar province every month than anywhere else in the country. But this month, the streets of Baghdad have been even bloodier than in Anbar, CBS News chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan reports.
The 101st soldier killed in October was shot by an enemy sniper in the Iraqi capital on Monday. While roadside bombs are still the single biggest killer, reports Logan, there's been a sharp increase in sniper attacks.
According to an Associated Press count, October has also seen more Iraqi civilian deaths 1,170 as of Monday than any other month since the AP began keeping track in May 2005. The next-highest month was March 2006, when 1,038 Iraqi civilians were killed in the aftermath of the Feb. 22 bombing of an important Shiite shrine in Samarra.
The war and the rising American casualties have produced a huge drag on Republican candidates as the U.S. midterm election approaches. The vote is seen in many cases as a referendum on the war, which has stretched into its 44th month. The Bush administration has invested heavy attention on Iraq in recent weeks, trying to put a new face on the conflict with mixed results.
Logan reports that one of the factors making life infinitely more difficult for U.S. troops in Iraq is the increasing level of attacks from Shiite militia groups.
Shiite militias — in particular the Mahdi army, headed by the radical Baghdad-based cleric Muqtada al-Sadr — are taking more and more American and Iraqi lives, as a vicious cycle of attacks and revenge spirals out of control in the country.
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- Getcentered has the right idea. America has noone to blame but themselves. Get out and VOTE!
Ask yourself for every race, who does GW want to win and then vote for the other guy. Its not about voting for the best guy any more, it's about doing everything in our power to limit the damage GW can do in his last two years.
Not the way democracy is supposed to work but sometimes you just have to do all in your power to cut the losses. - Reply to this comment
- Send Bush and Cheney and the neo cons over to Iraq without body armor and give them a toyota with three good tires, and two guns each with 5 bullets. Then tell the to Stay the Course, Mission Accomplished, Have Condi Rice walk around outside the Green Zone for a week just to make friends. Then ask them if this OIL is worth it.
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- This fiasco brought to you by those stalwarts of %u201CStay the Course%u201D, Icons of ignorance, and Champions of Chicken Hawks, Back Door Bush, Shotgun Cheney, and Heck of a Job Rummy. Their just a waiting for the Baker Commission to pull their cookies outta the fire but News Flash., this is just another of these unattainable bench marks/milestones/timelines. Iraqi Baker Commission, remember that James Baker represented/defended the Saudi Government against the Law Suit filed by the Survivors and family members of the 9/11 attack. So do not expect anything of substance or in the Best Interest of America coming out of the Iraqi Baker Commission as chartered by President Bush.
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- processor2
The article is about US military personel, not civilians. If one were to include civilians in the death rate from warfare in Iraq then the murder rate in California makes no comparison.
This war in Iraq is EXACTLY what the experts (the CIA, Pentagon) said it was going to be.
Fools rush in and that is what we did going into Iraq, so calling the people wanting this war stupid or arrogant fits the bill just fine.
GW Bush has nothing to do with the way the military is going to employ tactics.
The military commanders do not want unnecessary deaths, but right now, they are on the ground in Iraq, by order of the President. People are dying all around our troops and they cannot do much about it. They do not know why they are there, or why the people in Iraq started killing each other.
If the experts said it would be this way, why did we not take the time to create a better plan? I think I know part of the reasons: "politics". The party wanting this war needed it to BEGIN quickly or it might never come to pass.
How unfortunate for our brothers and sisters in the military that they can be wasted along side of Iraqi people without a known, true and just cause.
Get centered, then vote. - Reply to this comment
- make no mistake. George Bush is a real,live,walking, talking war criminal. Not because of what he has done to the people of Iraq, but because of what he has done to our military. Compared to Bush, Nixon is guilty of littering. George Bush is what you get when you are not using your head when you vote. The most amazing thing about Bush is that he is going to retire to his ranch and collect $200,000 for the rest of his life. He needs to be in jail.
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- Yes processor, and if we catch any of those responsible for the murders they will be incarcerated. Maybe we should do likewise to those responsible.
Like his father said, GW has the blood of many Americans on his hands. I hope it never washes off. - Reply to this comment
- processor2
A US Military convoy passing through a narrow street in Baghdad surrounded by houses on both the sides which are built completely different from houses in our country,gets attacked by a ROAD SIDE BOMB,then SUICIDE CAR BOMBERS,then RPGs and GUN SHOT form the ROOF TOPS of houses(the roof tops are flat and surrounded by tall boundry walls).If you consider this daily real life scenario in Iraq and then consider the Jill Carol's interview in which she said that she was told by her captors that only one INSURGENT GROUP(ALQAEDA IN IRAQ)has killed 40,000 US troops so far and several hundreds soldiers get killed every day,even if her captors might have exagerated the counts,it is doubtless that our news media and govt are hiding some truth.If you have seen the SNIPER ATTACKS shown in CNN and you remember the sniper in DC couple a years ago,you can realize how difficlut it is even to figure out where the round came from.Don't forget,the enemies don't wear Military Uniform and there is no FRONT LINE.It is an UNCONVENTIONAL WAR and unfortunately govt didn't make plan for an UNCONVENTIONAL war at all PERIOD. - Reply to this comment
- You idiot processor2!...the population of California is several millions vs. about 145,000 Americans in Iraq. So..per capita its 100 times more dangerous in Iraq for Americans!! You must have learned math from the Bush Administration..
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- 100 people died in Iraq las month ????
MORE than 100 people were murdered in California last month.
Sounds like it's safer in Iraq than California!!
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- I am a veteran and I%u2019m furious at what this administration is doing to my beloved Army. We are bogged down in an un-winnable war while Bush and his administration live a fantasy world of denial and spin. Shame on you Mr President!! Didn%u2019t you learn from the Vietnam War?? Get our boys out and the hell with Iraq. If they want to be a terrorist state and still the good people of Iraq allow it then- there is nothing we can do so to stop it. They have to want it more than we do and I don%u2019t see it. We are forcing them to be what we want them to be and it is never going to work! Our troops are dying, demoralized and hurting. It%u2019s not worth it%u2026!!
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- Is it possible The nuclear test in north korea was to test smaller, possibly suitcase type bombs for sale to terrorists?
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- Below is a quote from the first Bush President concerning Iraq.
In explaining to Gulf War veterans why he chose not to pursue the war further and depose Saddam, President Bush Sr. said, "Whose life would be on my hands as the commander-in-chief because I, unilaterally, went beyond the international law, went beyond the stated mission, and said we're going to show our macho? We're going into Baghdad. We're going to be an occupying power %u2014 America in an Arab land %u2014 with no allies at our side. It would have been disastrous."
Too bad his son has none of his fathers sense. - Reply to this comment
- We can't wait two more years to see Bush the Bungler leave town. Nixon resigned in disgrace after Watergate, something that pales in comparison to Bush's transgressions.
Bush and Chaney need to go, and the time is here for Americans to start demanding their joint resignations. They need to pack their bags and leave America. They are traitors. - Reply to this comment
- If we've not been attacked after 9/11,it doesn't mean we are totally safe.If we look at AlQaeda's previous operations,they are very patient and well planned enemies.It seems like BIN-LADEN is waiting for our ECONOMY and MILITARY to be destroyed in Iraq war before he attacks us again.Because of BUSH ADMINISTRATION's NON-SENSE policies,North Korea has built NUCLEAR BOMBS which they definately gonna sell to BIN LADEN as we know they have developed NUKES for BUSINESS reason.We Americans need to do something to stop the CATOSTROPHY we might have to see in the form of SIMULTANEOUS SUICIDE BOMBINGS in our MAJOR CITIES by the NUKES sold to BIN LADEN by North Korea.All the policies of Bush Administration are complete failure and it seems like people in this administration are totoally unaware of today's GEO-POLITICS.
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