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- Official: Iraq Gov't Missed All Targets
  Posted by Jeff from Huffington Post
  The "pivot point" for addressing the matter will no longer be Sept. 15, as initially envisioned, when a full report on Bush's so-called "surge" plan is due, but instead will come this week when the interim mid-July assessment is released, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because the draft is still under discussion.
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- Violent weekend in Iraq claims 220 lives
  Posted by Jeff from MSNBC
  Prominent Shiite and Sunni politicians called on Iraqi civilians to take up arms to defend themselves after a weekend of violence that claimed more than 220 lives, including 60 who died Sunday in a surge of bombings and shootings around Baghdad.
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- Body Count In Baghdad Up in June
  Posted by Jeff from Washington Post
  Nearly five months into a security strategy that involves thousands of additional U.S. and Iraqi troops patrolling Baghdad, the number of unidentified bodies found on the streets of the capital was 41 percent higher in June than in January, according to unofficial Health Ministry statistics.
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- 6 soldiers, journalist killed in Iraq
  Posted by Jeff from MSNBC
  Six U.S. soldiers and a civilian journalist were killed Sunday in a roadside bombing northeast of Baghdad, the military said, raising to 12 the number of troop deaths reported over a three-day period.
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- One suicide blast kills 9 U.S. soldiers
  Posted by Jeff from MSNBC
  A suicide car bomb struck a patrol base northeast of Baghdad on Monday, killing nine U.S. soldiers and wounding 20 in the single deadliest attack on American ground forces in more than a year, the military said.
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- 157 killed in 4 Baghdad blasts
  Posted by Jeff from MSNBC
  Puts Virginia Tech in perspective with our failures in Iraq: Four large bombs exploded in mostly Shiite areas of Baghdad on Wednesday, killing at least 157 people and wounding scores as violence climbed toward levels seen before the U.S.-Iraqi campaign to pacify the capital began two months ago.
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- Suicide attack on Iraqi holy city
  Posted by Jeff from BBC News
  At least 36 people have been killed and more than 160 hurt in a suicide car bomb attack in Iraq's holy city of Karbala, officials say.
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Jeff comments on:
Official: Iraq Gov't Missed All Targets

Iraqi surgents hit all targets…

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1:20 am 7/10/07
j1o2n3a4s5 comments on:
One suicide blast kills 9 U.S. soldiers

woohoo its a celebration!

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8:38 am 4/24/07
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15 killed in bomb south of Baghdad

Ten Americans killed over the weekend. Can we draft Jenna and Barb yet?

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4:27 pm 4/08/07
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President adds 8,200 new troops

Congress has been sold a fast one. Troop surge – permanent escalation. Bush wins this round.

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9:59 pm 3/11/07
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Hours before State of Union, Bush approval drops to low of 28 percent

It’s ironic that the safest man in America lives in a world filled of fear of terrorists completely detached from the possibility that his own corporate corruption plays a hand in creating the violence.

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9:36 pm 1/23/07
Jeff comments on:
18 Americans Killed in Iraq Today

Sorry, make that 20. 2 more were killed later today.

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10:07 pm 1/20/07

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