While we slept, 11 dead, 30 wounded

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4824213/



BAGHDAD, Iraq - At least 11 U.S. service members were killed in Iraq on Sunday, the military said, signaling the possibility that U.S. casualties in Iraq may continue at the same grisly pace as in April, until now the bloodiest month since the conflict began 13 months ago.

News of the attacks comes after the top U.S. military commander said that reports that Gen. Jasim Mohamed Saleh, a former general in Saddam Hussein’s elite Republican Guard, would take charge in the volatile Iraqi city of Fallujah, have been “very, very inaccurate.”

Six U.S. service members were killed and another 30 were wounded in a mortar attack near the western city of Ramadi, about 60 miles west of Baghdad, in Anbar province. That province includes such flashpoint cities as Fallujah in the Sunni Triangle, long a hotbed of Iraqi resistance.

A military spokeswoman gave no further details and did not say whether the victims were Marines or Army soldiers, but most Americans stationed there are Marines.

When will they take off their partisan blinders?

If you have been reading Riverbend's blog, you can see the definite change in attitude. IMHO this has made a big impact on the average Iraqi's feeling toward the US

riverbendblog.blogspot.com

This insanity has to stop. Bring them home!

We need to stop this madness.

Many more will die. Bush* will keep saying we can't just pull out or those brave men will have died in vain. The idiots in this country will agree. Unfortunately, our candidate does as well.

that is probably a stupid question. but i think that if their kids were drafted as people have mentioned the draft coming back, i think it would make legislators think twice about engaging in war.

April was the worst month for deaths so far during this war. May is looking like it is going to pass April.