Nine U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq suicide attack

clipped from www.reuters.com BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber killed nine U.S. soldiers and wounded 20 others at a military outpost north of Baghdad on Monday in one of the worst attacks on American ground forces since the invasion in 2003. While frontal assaults by insurgents against heavily fortified U.S. bases in Iraq are rare, a two-month old security plan that places troops at less protected garrisons in Baghdad and neighboring areas has exposed them to greater risk. The volatile region has a mixed population of Sunni Arabs and Shi'ites and U.S. commanders sent extra troops there in March to combat entrenched insurgents and al Qaeda militants. At least 85 U.S. troops have been killed in Iraq this month, making April the deadliest since December, when 112 were killed.

This news pretty much put me over the top this morning. I have been thinking about this for awhile and I am just fed up with this whole "war" and our men and women dying in Iraq. I think "we the people" need to speak up more loudly and clearly. We are distracted with so many other issues and "news" that we forget that every day our fellow Americans die for really no reason except George Bush's ego. I am pretty tired of the daily death toll mounting and I for one want to remind us all to high cost of Bush's actions.