Wednesday, November 22, 2006

how does bush sleep at night?

Bush, Maliki to meet as Iraqi deaths hit new high

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush will meet Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in Jordan next week with grim new statistics showing record numbers of Iraqis were killed last month and many more fled the country.
A U.N. report put civilian deaths in October at 3,709 -- 120 a day and up from 3,345 in September. Nearly 420,000 moved to other parts of Iraq

since the February bombing of a Shi'ite shrine in Samarra triggered a surge in sectarian attacks. It said as well as those displaced within Iraq, nearly 100,000 people were fleeing to Syria and Jordan every month -- proportionally equivalent to a million Americans emigrating each month, depriving the U.S. economy of a city the size of Detroit.

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Maybe someday he'll come up with some sort of plan - other than "stay the course", of course!