3000 Too Many

FOCUS | Time to Reflect as Iraq Toll Hits 3,000
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010107Z.shtml
Perhaps no place illustrates the toll of the Iraq War more vividly than Section
60 of Arlington National Cemetery. In this "garden of stone," in ruler-straight
rows, rest one-tenth of the Iraq War's American dead, whose number has reached
3,000.

Cindy Sheehan | 3,000 Dead: So Who's Counting?
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010107A.shtml
Peace activist Cindy Sheehan writes on the hours leading up to the death of the
3,000th US soldier in Iraq: "As I was lying on a freezing-cold floor, dressed in
black and white prison stripes in Waco, Texas, the other night, feeling sorry
for myself for a minute, I thought of our brave young people in Iraq whom
corporate greed has sentenced to a prison of a war that is turning more
nightmarish by the minute, and I didn't feel so bad. As Bloody BushCo are
contemplating escalating the mayhem, I know that many groups and communities are
already planning candlelight vigils. However, candlelight vigils will not stop
3,001 or 3,002 - and saints forbid that we will be mourning number 4,000
sometime too soon in the too-near future."

US Peace Groups Rally After 3,000th Soldier Killed
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010107B.shtml
US peace groups pledged on Sunday to start the new year with protests and vigils
to mark the death of the 3,000th US soldier in Iraq and to press their call for
an end to the war.

GOP Lawmakers Divided About "Surge" in Troops
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010107C.shtml
Republican lawmakers appear uneasy about - and in some cases outright dismissive
of - the idea of sending many more troops to Iraq, as President Bush
contemplates such a "surge" as part of his new strategy for stabilizing the
country.

Cold Ground for a Summer Love
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010107D.shtml
Marine Colin Joseph Wolfe left behind his girlfriend of one month, 19-year-old
Kira Wolf, when he shipped out to Iraq in July. He was killed seven weeks later
by a roadside bomb. This is their love story.