2,463 American troops now dead in W's war

at www.icasualties.org

Those kids who went in to see the world and/or get funds for an education.

Republican in the Congress and Senator stop counting their bank balance and start to do some hardwork.

It doesn't seem to be helping the Iraqis:

Iraqis dread new night callers


By Alastair Macdonald and Omar al-Ibadi Thu May 25, 9:07 PM ET

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Sometimes it's a word in the ear from a neighbor, maybe a threatening note left by the door, a sinister phone call or just a vague, creeping sense of dread.
Then again it can be gunmen taking over the street and slaughtering friends and family before your eyes -- whatever it is that persuades Iraqis to grab their children and flee their homes in the night, they are doing so in growing numbers.

In listing "stopping deportations" among priorities for his new national unity government, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has acknowledged a nascent problem likened to the "ethnic cleansing" of the Balkans in the 1990s. But few expect a quick solution.

"I came out of the house and found there was a piece of paper on my windshield," said Abbas Mohammed, a 28-year-old minibus driver, recalling the moment he knew that as a Shi'ite he was no longer safe in Baghdad's Sunni rebel stronghold of Amriya.
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In Baghdad alone, officials say 30-50 people are being killed each day in sectarian violence -- often abducted and tortured -- since February's bombing of a major Shi'ite shrine in Samarra.
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