some goings on in iraq on sunday

and NONE of it is good news (none, unless you consider 12 dead in the helicopter crash instead of 13 is good news).

why are we continuing to allow this to happen to our men and women? 25 dead in one day. that is the highest toll (i believe) in two years

why aren't we collectively raising our voices shouting BRING THEM HOME NOW?

why

3,200 US troops arrive in Baghdad as violence continues; 25 American soldiers die in single day

Deutsche Presse Agentur/RAW STORY
Bus bomb kills seven
BAGHDAD - Unrest and violence raged on in Iraq Sunday as an additional 3,200 US soldiers arrived in Baghdad under a Washington-backed extended security plan.
The forces would begin operations on Feb. 1, spokesman General Ray Odierno said. Forces are to be beefed up around Baghdad and joint US-Iraqi forces are expected to crack down on militants in extensive neighbourhood-by-neighbourhood raids.
The death toll of US soldiers killed over the previous 24 hours rose Sunday to 25 - including 12 in a helicopter crash - as five soldiers died in a militia attack on a security centre in Karbala and eight soldiers elsewhere, the US military said.
It revised downwards from 13 to 12 the number killed when the helicopter crashed in a region north-east of Baghdad inhabited by Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds.........

...........In Karbala, an "illegally armed militia group" attacked the Provincial Joint Coordination Centre where US and Iraqi forces hold security meetings, killing five US soldiers.........

.........Police said three kidnapped US soldiers were killed in Mahaweel, near Karbala, around 80 kilometres south of Baghdad as US and Iraqi troops tailed vehicles believed carrying militants from Karbala..........

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