Today, the Pentagon announced that a US Marine was killed on patrol near Ramadi and a US soldier was killed in a “non-combat shooting” in Mosul.
This brings the total for the month of March to 34, and the total so far to 585.
I am amazed that the mainstream media has ceased compiling daily and weekly totals.
As the media focuses on the anniversary of the start of the war, very little attention is being paid to the accelerating death toll of US soldiers.
This morning, two US soldiers and three Iraqis were killed in a daytime rocket attack in Baghdad. Another GI was killed in an accident.
Thursday, a U.S. Army soldier from West Virginia died in Germany:
Yesterday morning, two US marines were killed while on patrol.
Saturday morning “a U.S. soldier was fatally electrocuted while working on communication equipment at a U.S. military base in Baqouba, north of Baghdad” while “guerrillas killed a U.S. Marine near the restive town of Fallujah, west of Baghdad.”
This brings the total killed to 22 since March 13, the grand total to 582 and total American deaths since the ineffectualy capture of Saddam to 124.
Ok, not really. But this piece at the Daily Farce is pretty funny.
Interim Haiti President Boniface Alexandre was surprised to see so many Marines carrying an Arabic dictionary around with them looking for weapons of mass destruction.
Tonight on the Simpson’s, Homer is looking through the attic for something, but all he can find is a copy of Newsweek from 1986 with the cover story: “Why America Loves Saddam Hussein.”
Susan Lindauer, the accused spy for Iraq, seems to have been quite well-connected.
In 1998, she testified before the Lockerbie inquiry in 1998, saying that Syria, not Libya, was responsible for the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Scotland.
She supplied a copy of her deposition to Daniel Pipes’ Middle East Intelligence Bulletin, where they were eager to publish anything focusing new attention on Syria.
The charges against Lindauer is that she attempted to influence US government policy by meeting informally with an official (while failing to register as a foreign agent). That official has been identied as White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card, her cousin.
Lindauer is the daughter of a former candidate for governor of Alaska.
A Capitol Hill staffer friend of mine has told me that this is going to be a very interesting story as the pieces of the onion are peeled away.
Four more US soldiers died today as a result of Iraqi roadside bombs.
The first was killed this morning in Baqouba. Two others were wounded in the attack.
Later, two GIs were killed and one wounded in Habbaniyah.
Another soldier died from wounds suffered from an earlier bomb attack.
