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Bush rejects early Iraq pullout
(BBC NEWS, 3 August 2005)
George W Bush has said US troops will stay in Iraq to complete their mission, following the death of 14 US marines and their interpreter. . . . The roadside bombing in which they were killed was one of the deadliest attacks on US forces since the 2003 invasion. . . . Washington is worried such strikes could affect the public mood in the US, the BBC's Adam Brookes says. . . . The latest attacks brought the US death toll to more than 1,800 since the Iraq invasion. More than 13,000 US troops have been wounded. . . . Polls in the US show a fairly constant level of pessimism among Americans at the prospects for a successful outcome in Iraq, our Pentagon correspondent says. . . . Privately, senior US officers say their greatest concern is the affect on public opinion in the United States of the deaths of American troops: If we lose America, said one general, we lose the war. . . . The 14 US marines were killed when their vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb south of Haditha, about 260km (160 miles) north-west of Baghdad. . . . At least 37 US military personnel have been killed in Iraq in the last 10 days, a period of intense violence, but the latest Haditha attack ranks among the biggest US losses. . . . Only air crashes have resulted in higher US death tolls, including 16 in the November 2003 loss of a Chinook helicopter near Falluja and 31 in a helicopter crash in January 2005 near the Jordanian border.

posted by LoZo 10:10 PM