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Nov. 3rd. 2004: (CNN) BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) -- Hungary will withdraw its 300 non-combat troops from Iraq by March 31, the country's new prime minister said, because staying longer would be an "impossibility." How strong is George Bush's coalition?

11/4/04 CNN: LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Explosives were looted from the Al-Qaqaa ammunitions site in Iraq while outnumbered U.S. soldiers assigned to guard the materials watched helplessly, soldiers told the Los Angeles Times.  People this is not what Donald Rumsfeld's Pentagon told us. Another lie by the Bush administration.

Nov. 6th. 2004: (Comcast) BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Two car bombs and a mortar attack killed at least 34 people and wounded dozens of others in Samarra on Saturday, Iraqi police and U.S. military officials said. Didn't we, just a few weeks ago, retake Ramadi in preparation for the all our offensive on Falluja? Now they're in Samarra? As for Ramadi, see Nov. 7th.

Nov. 7th. 2004: (Comcast) Militants have struck three police stations near the city of Ramadi, with Iraqi authorities saying at least 21 people have been killed, many of them officers. Insurgents struck a military convoy near Ramadi on Saturday, wounding 16 soldiers, a U.S. military official said. We're getting ready to crush the resistance in Falluja while they are crushing the police in Ramadi. What's wrong with this picture? Maybe we really do need more troops in Iraq.

Nov. 7th. 2004: (Washington Post) Missing Shoulder-fired missiles cause for Alarm: Several thousand shoulder-fired missiles - the kind that could bring down an aircraft - are missing in Iraq. Some U.S. analysts figure as many as 4,000 surface to air missiles once under the control of Saddam Hussein's government remain unaccounted for. That would raise the amount of these kinds of missiles outside of governmental control worldwide to 6,000. In 2002 Terrorists launched two Russian made SA-7 missiles at a commercial airliner taking off from Mombasa, Kenya.

The U.S. State department estimated in 2003 that more then 40 aircraft have been struck by portable missiles since the 1970s, causing at least 24 crashes and more then 600 deaths worldwide. People, do you still feel safe flying? How many mistakes are you going to accept from Donald Rumsfeld's Pentagon? If we know they're missing we most have known they were there, how come we didn't destroy them?

Nov. 9th. 2004: (Comcast) BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Deadly insurgent attacks that have come to typify the persistent warfare in Iraq have left at least seven people dead in two volatile regions north of Baghdad. And in the capital, 11 people died in three incidents over the last 24 hours as a full-on assault on Falluja dominates world headlines.  Now we find that the resistance in Falluja isn't what we thought it would be. Hell, we gave them enough time to set their booby-trap & get out. What did we expect? We're fighting in Falluja & the enemy is in Baghdad and other cities in Iraq. Until we get serious and send in enough troops we're going to be chasing these people all over the map.

Nov. 11th. 2004: (Comcast) BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A suicide car bomb attack Thursday has killed at least 19 people and heavily damaged storefronts in a busy commercial district of central Baghdad, an Iraqi police official said. & we're chasing them around Fallula

Nov. 12th. (CNN) FALLUJA, Iraq (CNN) -- As U.S. soldiers advanced into southern Falluja on Friday, violence and combat intensified across Iraq with battles flaring in Mosul, Baquba and Baghdad. Great, we're fighting them in Falluja & their attacking all around the country.

Nov. 13th. (CNN) FALLUJA, Iraq (CNN) -- As many as 1,000 insurgents have been killed in the six-day battle for Falluja, an operation that is "almost finished," Iraqi national security adviser Kasim Dawood said Saturday. But terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and a lieutenant, Abdullah Junabi, both escaped, he said. With months of notice about the attack did we really expect to find him there?

Nov. 18th. (CNN) BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- On the second day of increased U.S. and Iraqi security operations in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, conditions are more stable, a top U.S. commander said Wednesday. We're getting to look like a dog chasing it's tail.

Nov. 19th. 2004: (CNN) BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A suicide car bombing at a checkpoint in Baghdad has killed five police officers and wounded 10 other people, police said.

Nov. 20th. 2004: (CNN) MOSUL, Iraq (CNN) -- Nine bodies of Iraqi army troops were found in south-central Mosul on Saturday morning. The U.S. military said the soldiers had been shot in the backs of their heads. At least nine people were killed in separate attacks Saturday morning in Baghdad: a U.S. soldier, four Iraqi government employees, three Iraqi national guardsmen and an Iraqi civilian. Well at least we chased them out of Falluja.

Nov. 26th. 2004: (CNN) BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Four members of a British security firm were killed and more than a dozen others were wounded in an attack Thursday in Baghdad's Green Zone, the British Foreign Office and U.S. military officials said Friday.

Nov. 27th. 2004: (CNN) BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Iraqi Interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi is not convinced that an election delay will secure better unity among political factions in the country for a safe and secure election, his spokesman said Saturday. Fifteen Iraqi political parties, backed by former Iraqi Governing Council President Adnan Pachachi, called for a delay in the nation's planned January 30 elections for a 275-seat transitional national assembly.

In other news:  (CNN) 5 Iraqis killed by Baghdad bombs. Two civilians and three police officers were killed in Saturday's bomb attacks in Baghdad, and 15 others injured, according to police officials. Also, a roadside bomb north of Baghdad killed a U.S. soldier shortly after dawn Saturday. The bomb targeted a U.S. military combat patrol, killing a 1st Infantry Division soldier, according to a military statement. The explosion, which happened near Ad Duluiya about 60 miles (97 km) north of Baghdad, also damaged an M1 Abrams tank, the military said.

Nov. 29th. 2004: (CNN) BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A car bomb exploded Monday near the central Iraqi city of Ramadi, killing at least six people and wounding at least eight others, Iraqi health officials said.

Nov. 30th. 2004: (CNN) BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A car bomb attack on an Army combat patrol killed seven Iraqi civilians Tuesday in the northern Iraqi city of Baiji, a military spokesman said. The blast wounded 19 people, including two U.S. soldiers. Military officials believe the vehicle's driver also was killed. In western Baghdad, a car bomb attack on a U.S. military convoy wounded five soldiers Tuesday morning on the road leading to Baghdad International Airport

12/2/04: (CNN) WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The United States is dispatching an additional 1,500 troops to Iraq and extending the stays of more than 10,000 others to bolster security ahead of January's scheduled elections, the Pentagon said Wednesday. The moves will bring the number of U.S. troops in Iraq from nearly 140,000 to an all-time high of about 150,000, the Pentagon said. I guess the administration couldn't get the U. N. to help secure the elections.

12/2/04: (CNN) WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Amid a debate over the use of misinformation by the U.S. military, the Pentagon says it is investigating an October incident in which a Marine spokesman gave CNN misleading information about an attack on the Iraqi city of Falluja. Well this wasn't the first lie we've heard from the Pentagon.

12/3/04: (CNN) BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Four suicide bombers drove a minibus loaded with explosives into a northern Baghdad Shiite mosque early Friday, killing 14 civilians, many who had gathered for morning prayers, police said. The bombing was part of a wave of simultaneous attacks in Baghdad that killed 25 people, including 11 Iraqi police officers killed in an attack on their station, in addition to the bombers

12/4/04: (CNN) BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Sixteen people, including five Iraqi police officers, were killed and 38 wounded Saturday when two car bombs exploded at an entrance gate to Baghdad's heavily fortified, coalition- controlled Green Zone, according to police and hospital officials.

12/5/04: (CNN) BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Twenty-one Iraqis -- 17 civilians working for U.S.-led coalition forces and four Iraqi security personnel -- were killed Sunday in three separate insurgent attacks, U.S. military officials said.

12/6/04: (CNN) Five Saudi militants attacked the U.S. Consulate in the Saudi port city of Jeddah, but Saudi security forces killed three of them and wounded two others, the Saudi Interior Ministry said. Here is a list of attacks on westerners in Saudi Arabia since Nov. 13th 1995

12/7/04: (CNN) Report: CIA chief paints bleak picture in Iraq. NEW YORK -- The situation in Iraq is unlikely to improve anytime soon, according to a classified cable and briefings from the Central Intelligence Agency, The New York Times reported Tuesday.  Tell me something I don't see on T.V. News or read in the papers everyday. The only good news I hear is from the administration & that's a bunch of bull.

12/8/04: (CNN) U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld faced tough questioning Wednesday from troops about to be deployed to Iraq. Soldiers at Camp Buehring, a staging area in the Kuwait desert, peppered Rumsfeld with queries about the standard of equipment they would be using and about the Pentagon's "stop-loss" policy, which prevents troops from leaving the military service even if they are eligible to retire or quit. Most of the complaints were the same ones that John Kerry mentioned during his presidential campaign. They were brushed off by the administration during the campaign & were again brushed off by Rumsfeld today.

12/8/04: (CNN) BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A high-ranking official in the Iraqi Finance Ministry and his driver were killed on a violent stretch in central Baghdad, ministry sources said Wednesday. There were several other attacks around Iraq during the day.

12/10/04: (CNN) -- The question a U.S. soldier asked Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld Wednesday about the lack of armor on some combat vehicles in Iraq was planted by a newspaper reporter embedded with the soldier's unit, the reporter told colleagues in an e-mail. Now I hear that the manufacturer told the Pentagon that it could produce a hundred more a month.  See here. How many of our boys have to die for Rumsfeld's ineptitude?

12/11/04: (CNN)  -- WASHINGTON (AP) -- Troops always gripe. But confronting the defense secretary, filing a lawsuit over extended tours and refusing to go on a mission because it's too dangerous elevate complaining to a new level.  White House spokesman Scott McClellan on Friday said that Bush "is committed to making sure our troops have the best equipment and all the resources they need to do their jobs. And that's exactly what he expects to happen."  Funny Bush didn't feel that it was important to upgrade the armor on the Humvees before it became public that they weren't up to standards.

12/11/04: (CNN) BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Two high-ranking Iraqi Interior Ministry officials were gunned down in southwest Baghdad Saturday morning, a police official said.

12/13/04: (CNN) BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A suicide car bomb exploded outside the area which hosts the seat of Iraq's interim government and the U.S. Embassy early Monday morning, killing eight people and wounding 15 others, and hours later a second bomb tore through northern Baghdad, wounding three U.S. soldiers and an Iraqi civilian, according to a statement from the military.

12/13/04: (CNN) LONDON, England -- Iraq's interim president has criticized U.S. and British forces for dismantling Iraqi security forces and warned that long-term instability could give rise to an "Iraqi Hitler." Isn't this the same man who stood in front of the White House as George Bush told us that Iraq was on the way to freedom & democracy and that John Kerry was wrong to tell us that we had real problems in Iraq because of all the mistakes that the Pentagon had made.

12/14/04: (CNN) BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- For the second day in a row, Iraqi insurgents Tuesday struck with a car bomb near a western checkpoint into Baghdad's Green Zone. An official with Baghdad's Yarmouk hospital said among its casualties were two dead and 13 wounded.

12/15/04: (CNN) BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A bomb killed seven Iraqis and wounded 32 on Wednesday near the Imam Hussein mosque in Karbala, police sources told CNN.

12/16/04: (CNN) WASHINGTON (CNN) -- U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, has joined other Republicans in criticizing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. When is Bush going to realize that this man is incompetent?

12/19/04: (CNN) BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Deadly car bombings on Sunday hit the Iraqi Shiite Muslim holy cities of Karbala and Najaf, killing 67 people, officials said.

12/21/04: (CNN) BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Multiple rounds hit a dining hall at a U.S. military base near Mosul on Tuesday, killing 22 people, including U.S. troops, members of the Iraqi national guard, and Iraqi civilians, Pentagon officials said. Fifty-one people were wounded in the incident -- which occurred at noon (4 a.m. ET) as people ate lunch at Forward Operating Base Marez, the officials said. I thought that when we drove the insurgents out of Falluja the problem was going to be eliminated. Weren't we told told that after we eliminated their stronghold they would have no place to attack from.

12/24/04: (CNN) BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- On the heels of a visit to Iraq by U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, a fuel truck filled with oil or gasoline exploded Friday in western Baghdad, a city police official said.

12/25/04: (CNN) BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Gunmen killed five Iraqi officials in what appeared to be three separate assassination attacks, sources said Sunday.

12/27/04: (CNN) BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A main Sunni Muslim political party withdrew from Iraq's upcoming elections on Monday, and a suicide bomb attack on the nation's largest Shiite party killed at least six people and wounded 33 others, police said.

12/27/04: (CNN) CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- In an audiotape broadcast Monday by Arabic-language Al-Jazeera satellite television, a man purported to be Osama bin Laden endorsed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi as his deputy in Iraq and called for a boycott of next month's elections there. This was the second tape purportedly made by bin Laden to surface this month. An audiotape posted on an Islamist Web site December 16 had a man identified as bin Laden praising militants who attacked a U.S. consulate in Saudi Arabia earlier this month and calling on militants to stop the flow of oil to the West.  Is this guy still at it. I thought George Bush told us shortly after 9/11/01 that he was going to get him?

12/28/04: (CNN) BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Insurgents killed 18 Iraqi police and five Iraqi troops in Tuesday attacks, officials said, about a month before the nation's first-ever democratic elections.

12/29/04: (CNN) BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- At least 28 people, including several Iraqi police officers, died Tuesday night when a house exploded in western Baghdad, police said.

12/31/04: (CNN) BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Insurgents attacked a U.S. military patrol on Thursday north of Baghdad using a pair of roadside bombs, according to a military statement.

1/02/04: (CNN) BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A suicide bomber rammed into a bus Sunday near Balad, north of Baghdad, killing 18 Iraqi national guard soldiers and an Iraqi female civilian, an Army 1st Infantry Division spokesman said. In the northern city of Mosul on Sunday, Kahsro Goran, deputy governor of Nineveh province, said that the city's electoral commission has resigned, the third resignation in two months. "We have to have elections, but the security situation is deteriorating," Goran said. "So there will not be real and fair participation."

1/03/04: (CNN) BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A suicide car bomb attack near the political party headquarters of interim Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi killed at least two Iraqi police officers Monday. Earlier Monday, a suicide bomb attack killed four Iraqi soldiers and wounded 14 other people at a checkpoint in Balad, north of Baghdad, a U.S. military spokesman said.

1/4/04: (CNN) Baghdad governor assassinated. BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- The governor of Baghdad province was assassinated Tuesday morning in the Iraqi capital, an Iraq Interior Ministry official said. Also: Bomb kills at least 10 near Green Zone; 5 U.S. troops also die.

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