By Wednesday, these are going to be talking points that somehow support the White House's belief that the "surge" is working.
BAGHDAD, May 18 -- Five U.S. soldiers were killed and nine wounded in separate attacks in Baghdad and the restive province of Diyala northeast of the capital, the U.S. military said Friday, and ABC News reported that two Iraqi journalists working for the network's Baghdad bureau were killed by gunmen while on their way home from work Thursday night.
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Meanwhile, the U.S. military reported that three soldiers were killed Friday in Diyala when an explosion occurred near their vehicle. Two other soldiers were killed and nine were injured Thursday in separate attacks in southern Baghdad, where the Army has been conducting raids against weapons
BAGHDAD - Bombings killed seven U.S. soldiers in Baghdad and a southern city, the U.S. military said Sunday, and the country's Sunni vice president spoke out against a proposed oil law, clouding the future of a key benchmark for assuring continued U.S. support for the government.
Six of the soldiers were killed Saturday in a bombing in western Baghdad, the military said in a statement. Their interpreter was also killed.
The other soldier died in a blast Saturday in Diwaniyah, a mostly Shiite city 80 miles south of the capital where radical Shiite militias operate. Two soldiers were wounded in that attack, the military said.
For those keeping track on your fingers at home... grab a friend, that's 12 troops dead from Friday through Sunday, two journalists and an interpreter. Those are just the ones the MSM's allowed to care about.
In case you're not following the push/pull negotiations of staying the course vs. learning from experience going on between the White House and Congressional Democrats, Bush wants this to continue unabated although the primary goals (all of them) have been accomplished while the Democrats want our men and women pulled back out of a conflict we are no longer a party to.
Posted by kerry at May 21, 2007 03:55 AM