Playing Number Games with Our Dead By Bob Parks

I was in my hotel room this morning and found myself doing something not in my normal, everyday routine: I was watching CNN.

Not because I had some kind of epiphany, but because it was the only cable news station offered in the room. It was what I watched that kind of set my mood for the day.

The following is from the CNN website….

2007 now the deadliest year for U.S. troops in Iraq

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — Six U.S. troops were killed in Iraq on Monday, making 2007 the deadliest for the American military in the Iraq war.

The grim record came despite lower death rates in recent months, which were not enough to offset death tolls that topped 100 during three months in the spring.

Four soldiers were killed when a roadside bomb exploded near their vehicle in northern Iraq's Tameem province; another died in combat in Anbar province.

A sailor was killed in Salaheddin province "as a result of injuries sustained from an explosion while conducting operations," the military said.

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