America’s Iraq strategy boosts US combat losses

Christian Science Monitor

06/01/07

May’s spike in the American death toll in Iraq is the result of the administration’s new approach in Iraq — as much as it is the enemy’s own ’surge’ of attacks against US forces. In strategic terms, it’s called taking it to the enemy. But analysts warn that if the number of US casualties continues at their current high level through the summer, that could raise questions about whether the strategy is actually working. May has already been difficult — the third-deadliest month since the Iraq war began. In a candid briefing Thursday, Army Lt. Gen. Ray Odierno, commander of Multinational Corps-Iraq, warned that the situation would be difficult in the months ahead. But the rising number of Americans killed comes as a result not only of insurgent activity but also from US operations in places that forces have not been before...

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These are the dog days of the War Party; their cadre is deserting them in droves, the public hates their guts, and members of their own party — I refer, of course, to the Republican Party — are rising in rebellion, if only out of fear of the public’s wrath. The investigation into their shenanigans has hardly begun with the indictment and conviction of Scooter Libby, and the prospect of jail time for a few more of the War Party’s leading figures cannot fill them with anything other than trepidation. The American people are waking up, and their awakening has been rude in the extreme and is bound to get ruder with each passing day as the ’surge’ yields a higher casualty rate and the Iraqi insurgency plays havoc with our pretensions to being the New Rome. Yet the War Party still has a few cards to play...

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