Still calling Iraqi insurgents and terrorists freedom fighters? I'll bet you cheered when they slaughtered all those Russian children. Do your buddies on Ebay know you cheer the slaughter of innocents Nick?
"1,000 and counting"
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>"Behind the 1,000 deaths figure is the fact that the trend in US casualties
>has not really diminished, and the rate of injuries may actually have
>accelerated - pointing to an increasingly sophisticated insurgency and the
>lack of progress in defeating it.
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>There is an acknowledgement that the number of safe havens for insurgents in
>Iraq - particularly places like Falluja, Ramadi, and Samarra in what is
>known as the Sunni triangle - poses a serious threat.
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>The Iraq conflict was meant to be a showcase of the US military's
>capabilities in the 21st Century to wage war in a different way, and
>overwhelm an enemy with technological superiority.
>But officials now acknowledge that they miscalculated the resilience of the >insurgency.
>Events on the ground have also highlighted Washington's failure to get more
>friends and allies to share the burden in Iraq, and - for critics - that the
>Pentagon was slow to respond to the growing insurgency and that the US
>military was not well-prepared or trained to deal with it."
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