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<p>If this doesn't sicken and/or infuriate you, you're probably not a FReeper. Check out the email just received from Howard Dean's group. These vultures are ghoulishly trying to support our Iraqi war dead.</p> <p>Today marks the day that 2,000 brave servicemen and women have sacrificed their lives for the war in Iraq. Most of us cannot imagine what it must be like for their sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers. But as a nation, we can take a moment to send our gratitude and support to those families.</p>

WASHINGTON, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Crossing the threshold of 2,000 American military deaths in Iraq on Tuesday added to the pressure on President George W. Bush to show progress in Iraq amid waning public support for the war. Bush launched the Iraq war in 2003 hoping for a quick victory with minimal casualties. The Iraqi army was quickly defeated and, when confronted by early attacks by militants, Bush was initially defiant, declaring: "Bring 'em on!" But within months the attacks grew in intensity, bogging down the U.S. force of more than 100,000 troops, aircraft and armor and delaying plans for...

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1,997 U.S. troops have already been killed in this Iraq war. At 7 p.m. on the day after this grim count reaches 2000, come to Grand and Lindell to express your sorrow and outrage that this illegal, immoral, reckless war goes on and on and on, long after every shred of a pretext has vanished. Bring your family, your neighbors, your co-workers, your friends. Let's join voices across the nation, organized by Gold Star Families for Peace, Military Families Speak Out, Iraq Veterans Against the War, American Friends Service Committee, and hundreds of other groups United for Peace and Justice,...