900th GI Dies Since War Began in Iraq

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Militants freed a Filipino truck driver Tuesday after the Philippines government gave in to their demands to withdraw troops from Iraq to prevent the beheading of the 46-year-old father of eight who had been held captive for two weeks.

On Wednesday, a 1st Infantry Division soldier became the 900th U.S. military death in Iraq since the beginning of the war in March 2003. The soldier was killed by a roadside bomb while on patrol in a Bradley fighting vehicle in Duluiyah, 45 miles north of Baghdad.

Two Marines had been killed in separate incidents Tuesday while conducting "security and stability operations." One soldier was killed Monday, and a second died Monday of wounds. Before the five deaths, the Pentagon's official count of the dead had stood at 895.

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900 American soldiers have died in Iraq in pursuit of weapons of mass destruction that did not exist. The blood of these 900 heroes is on the hands of George Bush and Dick Cheney. I guess when George Bush said "bring 'em on," he really meant it. One wishes he had used a better choice of words.