This is the deadliest month for US troops since Nov. 05

[AlCzervik]

http://icasualties.org/oif/

78 soldiers have died already.

:cry:

[malaise]

1. 81 -three more died today

Please tell W that there was no election in 05.

[Swede]

2. Why do you hate America?

This is longer then the European operation in WWII, and all for nothing. All these young lives,all the Iraqi lives,gone for nothing.

[nam78_two]

3. Its just a comma

:sarcasm:

[Justice Is Comin]

4. And Rumsfeld called it a fruit bowl.

Fruit bowl from a fruitcake.

[nam78_two]

5. Fruit bowl??!!!-these people make no sense/nt

[Justice Is Comin]

6. You can't make this stuff up, they're sick.

Woodward: This isn't about just some little scandal ?? we're talking about a war where we have 147,000 of our troops on the line. I was shocked and surprised by the vivid and repeated disparity between what the secret reports said and what they say publicly.

SPIEGEL: There are a couple of scenes in your book where I got the impression that you are personally disappointed and speechless -- when Donald Rumsfeld compared the situation in Iraq to fruit in a fruit bowl.

Woodward: I was astonished that he would compare these attacks to a fruit bowl and say the insurgents are as (diverse) as apples, bananas and oranges. These are the attacks that have killed several thousands of our soldiers. I served in the Navy during the Vietnam War. At such moments I became a reporter who remembered his own experience speaking and in the book I let people know that. In writing a book about a state of denial, I could not be in a state of denial myself and fail to convey those personal emotions to somebody who might be reading it. But at those points in the book, I make it clear that I'm stepping out of my role as a reporter and providing a personal reaction.

[nam78_two]

8. Good God!

........

[Imagevision]

7. It's because the terrorists want Hastert replaced by Pelosi and are

attempting to sway the election, I thought everyone knew that?