Meanwhile, 12 soldiers have died in the last 3 days.

[deminks]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/13/world/middleeast/13iraq.html

U.S. Troops Kill Iraqi Girl; 3 Soldiers Die in Attack

BAGHDAD — American soldiers accidentally shot and killed a young Iraqi girl in Diyala Province on Wednesday and three soldiers were killed in a rocket attack in the southeast, as a wave of deadly violence continued.

The military said soldiers in Diyala fired a warning shot near “a suspicious woman who appeared to be signaling to someone.” They then found the girl, whose age they did not release, with a gunshot wound. She was given medical treatment but died on the way to a hospital. Military officials, who referred to the shooting as “an escalation of force incident,” said improvised explosive devices had recently been found in the region where the shooting occurred.

The deaths of the three soldiers in an early morning attack on a base near Nasiriya brought to 12 the number of American soldiers killed in the last three days.

Five soldiers on foot patrol died Monday in a suicide bombing in a busy shopping district of central Baghdad. Three died the same day in a bombing in Diyala Province. Another was killed Tuesday by an improvised explosive device while on combat patrol near Diwaniya.

“This has unquestionably been a tough few days,” a military spokesman, Maj. Gen. Kevin J. Bergner, said in a news conference on Wednesday.

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That is all. Now back to your sex, lies, and games of the rich and famous.

[MichiganVote]

1. A new surge....in the wrong direction. God I'm sick of this shit.

[JohnnyLib2]

2. An endless tragedy.

RIP. How many times must we say that?