Meanwhile, the number of people killed goes up

Ah, the daily totals. I think that in Vietnam, they were printing the news as ratios, "Gooks" v. GIs killed each day. That's a rather ugly way to debase human beings.

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November became one of Iraq's bloodiest months as the U.S. death toll in the war in Iraq reached 1,214, according to figures released by the Defense Department.

On Wednesday, a suicide attacker drove his bomb-laden car into a U.S. convoy during fierce fighting in the town of Beiji, 155 miles north of the Baghdad, killing 10 people and wounding 12, including three American soldiers. Another attack on a convoy of civilian contractors in Beiji caused no casualties.

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