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Analysis of US Casualties in Iraq by Week and Month - post Baghdad Liberation Day   April: Post- Baghdad Liberation Day - April 30   Week of Apr. 10 - Apr.16:   Apr.10: One Marine killed 22 wounded securing Baghdad Mosque:  Iraqi regime loyalists, terrorists and paramilitary forces engaged elements of Regimental Combat Team 5 (RCT-5) from the protection of an 8th century Shia Mosque. In over one hour of heavy gunfire exchange, the Marines of RCT-5 cleared the mosque for return to the Iraqi people....Marines quickly assessed the situation. After receiving permission to engage the enemy inside, Marines swiftly defeated the Iraqi...

If you haven’t caught the “pattern” of the Democrats, lately, then you haven’t been paying attention. Like the “gravitas” virus that infected everyone during the 2000 election cycle, the latest verbal tic is “pattern.” Bush’s inclusion of the now beaten-beyond-a-dead horse 16 words, which have been misrepresented by almost every liberal talking head in America, suddenly constitutes a “pattern” of deception. Oooh, I’m so alarmed. Thankfully, I have a working mind, a set of working eyes, and the ability to cruise the internet. With just these tools, I have been able to determine that the only pattern of deception here...

EDITOR'S NOTE: SOME OF THE LANGUAGE IN THIS COLUMN MAY BE OFFENSIVE TO READERS Frank Lautenberg, the senator and septuagenarian from New Jersey, was shocked, shocked. The president of the United States had said some disrespectful things about the enemy in Iraq, even taunted them. The commander-in-chief had dared them to try something. He had... well, listen: "There are some who feel they can attack us there," George W. Bush said of the suicide bombers and bushwhackers that have been attacking American troops. "My answer is: Bring 'em on. We've got the force necessary to deal with the security situation."...

The Associated Press NEAR BAQUBA, Iraq July 9 — The sweat dripped from Lt. Kurt Chapman's face. The 4th Infantry Division platoon commander had just set a trap for a group of Iraqi ambushers and he was the bait.It was now a matter of watching and waiting. "They want to shoot at us. We'll see if they have the guts," said Sgt. Samuel Bailey, of Cedar Falls, Iowa. "When they started aggressively attacking us, we decided to take the fight to them. We own the night."When Chapman's men first ventured out of the base onto the road toward "RPG...

Bring 'em on. That's what the president said and that's what the Democrats hate. They say it makes him sound like a cowboy, that it is too beligerent a tone, that it shows he is not the statesman America needs. That he is some hothead rube sitting in the most powerful seat in the world. Well, they're full of crap. He's right and they're wrong and that's all there is to it. What am I talking about? A comment President Bush made last week at the White House. A reporter asked him about the terrible string of attacks on American...

Among the many Democrats complaining about President Bush's dare for Saddam's loyalists to "bring 'em on" is presidential candidate John Kerry, who called the remark "unwise (and) unworthy of the office." Kerry's complaint about Bush's expression of confidence in the U.S. fighting force is particularly ironic, however, given his own comments about American GI's in 1971, after he returned from combat duty in Vietnam. Talk about making things tough on our own. Here's what the White House-wannabe told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that April, while testifying as a leader of Vietnam Veterans Against the War: Kerry accused U.S....

<p>N THE GOTHIC splendor of the National Cathedral, that liturgy of trauma, George W. Bush made the most stirring - and ominous - declaration of his presidency. It was Sept. 14, 2001. ''Just three days removed from these events,'' he said, ''Americans do not yet have ''the distance of history.'' But our responsibility to history is already clear: to answer these attacks and rid the world of evil.''</p>

Franks says There are Enough Coalition Forces in Iraq Sgt. 1st Class Doug SampleAmerican Force Press Service WASHINGTON, July 7, 2003 – Army Gen. Tommy Franks, who steps down as commander of U.S. Central Command today, said coalition forces will continue to move forward with establishing security in Iraq, by "working with Iraqis" despite an increasing number of U.S. casualties. Franks' comments, on ABC's "Good Morning America," came after reports of three more U.S. soldiers killed in Baghdad. Despite the violence, he said that based on conversations he's had with Army Lt. Gen. Rick Sanchez, commanding Combined Joint Task...

General Tommy Franks leaves his top spot at United States Central Command repeating President Bush's taunt to Iraq militants: [on Good Morning America Live] 'Bring Em On.'On his last day of his command, Franks told ABC News Good Morning America that he agreed with the President's comments, and he doesn't think that more United States Troops are needed to deal with the recent spate of attacks against Amercian forces.'The fact is wherever we find criminals, death squads and so forth who are anxious to do damage to this country and to peace loving nations around the world, I absolutely agree...

"Bring 'em on!" With that one little phrase, President George W. Bush has set liberals clucking their tongues like they haven't clucked since Ronald Reagan called the former Soviet Union an evil empire. Was this really an appropriate remark for the leader of the free world? Didn't this amount to a taunt of America's enemies to attack our troops? One Democrat presidential candidate even said that it sounded more like a comment from a gang leader than the President of the United States. Of course, the term "cowboy" is again being heard across the land. Well, cowboys are quintessentially American,...

Retiring Iraq War commanding Gen. Tommy Franks echoed President Bush's controversial expression of confidence in U.S. troops Monday morning, daring Iraqi opposition forces to "bring 'em on." Asked about the recent spate of deadly attacks on U.S. troops, Franks said the notion American soldiers were "sitting back and waiting" to be hurt by criminals and supporters of Saddam Hussein was inaccurate. "This is all about offensive operations in Iraq. No one said this was going to be easy," the top military man explained, according to Reuters. Asked about Bush's comment last week, Franks said he agreed, telling GMA, "Absolutely,...

Shocked, shocked are the fainthearts that President Bush has openly double-dared Iraq's rogue troublemakers to come take a poke at our troops any time they feel like mixing it up. "Bring 'em on!" war-whoops the commander in chief, and you'd think this pack of Democratic presidential aspirants had never seen a John Wayne movie in their whole lives. "Phony macho rhetoric!" bawls candidate Rep. Dick Gephardt. "Unworthy of the office!" bleats Sen. John Kerry. "Tremendous insensitivity!" blubbers Gov. Howard Dean. Cripes. What a bunch of twinkies. "Tremendous insensitivity"? Find one warrior who thinks that. It's a fair guess that our...