I was going to put up a similar post yesterday. Seems waiting a Day was a good idea, as Pitt hits another and gives a leadin!

William Rivers Pitt | Meanwhile, in Iraq …

“It has become something of a challenge to stay abreast of the continuing carnage in Iraq,” writes William Rivers Pitt. “We still have tens of thousands of soldiers there. Nineteen of them have died since the beginning of July, and 2,553 have died since the whole thing started. 150 Iraqi civilians have been killed in the last three days, adding to the 6,000 civilians who have been killed in the last two months, adding to the tens of thousands who have been killed over the last three years.”


Tracking coalition military deaths in Iraq, one day at a time, across the map. Click HERE to see the Flash-animated map.

So ‘Cutting and Running’ Is Weak{?}, NOT! This Should NEVER Have Happened!!!
Cutting and Running
Joe Galloway | July 13, 2006

Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld was in Iraq this week, and he heard some good news and some bad news.
The good news is that the number of American soldiers who’ve been killed in Iraq in recent weeks has fallen from two or three a day to an average of only one a day.
The bad news is that the reason for the good news is that Iraqis are, for the time being, more interested in killing one another than they are in killing Americans.
And the real news in Iraq is that the number of American troops who are fighting and dying in that place has fallen to 127,000 from a high of more than 160,000 late in 2005.
Despite Bush administration’s “stay the course” rhetoric and Rumsfeld’s refusal to discuss any withdrawal timetable on his trip, the truth is that the administration is rushing to disentangle itself from Iraq as fast as possible.

As of July 20 ’06, There Are 63 Pages w/5 ‘Silent Honor Rolls’ Each, Number of KIA’s Varies With Each ‘Silent Honor Roll’;
In Honor – In Memory

Bush’s Double Game on an Iraq Withdrawal Timetable
Analysis by Gareth Porter

WASHINGTON, Jul 18 (IPS) – Caught between the need to explore a possible diplomatic way out of an otherwise hopeless mess in Iraq and the domestic political need to keep the Democrats on the defensive, U.S. President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney are playing a double game on the issue of timetable for withdrawal.

Faces of the Fallen

Mother of Iraq War Vet Who Committed Suicide Flies Flag Upside Down
By Matthew Rothschild
July 18, 2006

Terri Jones lost her son Jason Cooper just over a year ago.
He was an Army Reservist in the Iraq War.
On July 14, 2005, four months after returning home to Iowa, he hanged himself.
He was 23.
Since then, Jones has been flying her American flag upside down, though someone came on her property once and turned it right side up, and another person stole it.

Turkey Considers Invading Iraqi Kurdistan

Turkish officials signaled Tuesday they are prepared to send the army into northern Iraq if US and Iraqi forces do not take steps to combat Turkish Kurdish guerrillas there – a move that could put Turkey on a collision course with the United States.

Civil war spreads across Iraq
By Patrick Cockburn in Iraq

In the past 10 days, while the world has been absorbed by the war in Lebanon, sectarian massacres have started to take place on an almost daily basis, leading observers to fear a level of killing approaching that of Rwanda immediately before the genocide of 1994.

Marine death shows Latino sacrifice in Iraq

The Iraq War has taken a toll on Mexican-American families. Take Kristian Menchaca. He was born in Houston but grew up in Brownsville, Texas. The son of immigrants, he often visited his many cousins on the Mexican side. On June 16, insurgents in Iraq abducted Pfc. Menchaca, 23, and fellow soldier Tommy Tucker, 25, at a checkpoint somewhere along the Euphrates River, 10 miles south of Baghdad. Their bodies were found a few days later.

Iraq Coalition Casualty Count and Much More

GI SPECIAL 4G20: ‘Estoy En Contra De La Guerra’.pdf

GI SPECIAL 4G19: ‘Nation Breaking’.pdf

GI SPECIAL 4G18: ‘Straws In The Wind’.pdf

 GI SPECIAL 4G17: ‘Allies’.pdf

Oh and there’s So Much More. But if you don’t receive the many NewsLetters, in your e-box, or pay Attention to the Quick Scrolls, at the bottom of your TV screens, or Listen ‘Very Carefully to the Quick couple of second mentions, from the Talking Heads, the News of Iraq is Quickly going the way of that given on Afganistan, Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind!!
Although many, in this country, have readily put it out of mind Long Ago!