mis amigos, nos dejan no luchar sobre las cosas que no importan el hecho son George W. Bush son el nuevo dictador y nosotros deben hacer nuestro mejor para votarlo fuera de oficina!! ¡Despues de todo, mire lo que el hizo a mi!

It is personal because people that I love are in danger due to this foolish ego trip.

I'm not sure what media you are observing but it isn't the one that is being reporting from around the world.

I am emotional about it because we have been and continued to be lied to, why do you say that things are getting better, time for a new assignment? Maybe we should start focusing on those same sex marriages, or maybe steroid use, yea that's the ticket. Hey, hey look over here, pay no attention to the human carnage behind the curtain.

In recent weeks, attacks on the American-led occupation forces have been running at about one and a half dozen a day, with others mounted daily against Iraqi security forces or against civilians, sometimes those working for the occupation army and sometimes bystanders.

The latest deaths brought to 512 the number of American service members who have died since the United States and its allies launched the Iraq war on March 20, according to a tabulation by The Associated Press. The American military and the Iraqi forces it is training have been mounting many raids themselves, including 52 simultaneously in Baghdad alone on Friday night that resulted in the arrest of about 25 people, the military said. Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, a military spokesman, said that in those raids bomb-making materials, documents that he said were "associated with" the intelligence services of the ousted government, and weapons and ammunition were seized.

American troops and local police officers also arrested a suspect in a previous attack on the Iskandariya police station, the American command said.

The continuing guerrilla war is complicating efforts to hand over sovereign power to the Iraqis by June 30, starting with caucuses to select a transitional national assembly that would then write a constitution calling for general elections in 2005. Many Iraqis would prefer quicker general elections instead, but the lack of security is one of the obstacles to that approach.

This is a crazy link so it may not work, but the numbers in the story tell of increasing violence in Iraq, not the relief expected by the capture of Saddam.

Could it be that the intelligence was wrong again, the strongman was already a joke inside of Iraq and the insurgence used our shock and awe to accelerate the inevitable and now plan to send us home in boxes until we say uncle.

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US combat deaths in Iraq have risen sharply during January despite a drop in the number of attacks and the capture of former dictator Saddam Hussein over a month ago.

As of Thursday, 33 American soldiers and one civilian had been killed by hostile fire during the month. That compares with 24 US combat deaths in December, and a total of 32 coalition combat deaths.

The figures appear to show that the security situation in Iraq is not improving, contrary to earlier claims from the US military and politicians.