25 U.S. Troops Killed in Iraq Saturday

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BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- The U.S. military on Sunday reported six more American troops killed in fighting the day before, raising the toll to 25 in the deadliest day for U.S. forces in Iraq in two years.

Four U.S. soldiers and a Marine were killed Saturday during combat in Anbar, the Sunni insurgent stronghold west of Baghdad, the military said. A roadside bomb also struck a security patrol northeast of Baghdad, killing one soldier.

Saturday's carnage also included 12 soldiers killed in a Blackhawk helicopter crash northeast of Baghdad, five killed in a militant attack in the holy Shiite city of Karbala and two others slain elsewhere in roadside bombings.

The parliamentary bloc loyal to the radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, meanwhile, ended its nearly two-month political boycott after reaching a compromise in which a parliamentary committee would take up the group's demands for a timetable for Iraqi forces to take over security and the withdrawal of U.S. forces.

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1. If this is an indication of the lethal force to be used against American

...troops in Iraq in the coming weeks and months under the Bush escalation program to win the war, then expect 600 to 800 Americans killed in action each month moving forward. This is what Bush and Cheney and the neocons want, outrage from the American people targeted against Iraq insurgents so Bush can unleash all the force he has, namely nuclear weapons, to bomb Iraq, Iran, Syria or any other country which resists into complete submission or inhalation

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2. Happy Surge!

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