"thunder" wrote in message
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If conditions are so positive in Iraq, why is the rate of American deaths
increasing, not decreasing? Why is there a mini-Tet going on as we speak?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4487862.stm

I call your link, and raise you another:

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/12/01/D8E7OQR09.html


Although a higher number of American soldiers died last month, the number of
terrorist attacks is down.

But the number of US troops who have died recently is a result of large
offensives taking place by American and Iraqi troops against terrorist
strongholds along the Syrian border. In fact, there are even reports that
US Marines recently engaged Syrian forces just over the border *inside*
Syria.