A U.S. soldier was killed during a firefight in the insurgent stronghold of Ramadi, west of Baghdad, raising to 11 the number of American forces killed in a single day, the military said Thursday.
The soldier died Wednesday after he was shot while manning a machine gun nest on the roof of an outpost in the city, 115 kilometers (70 miles) west of Baghdad, the capital of the volatile Anbar province.
The death came on the same day that 10 other U.S. troops were killed in four separate incidents in Iraq, a major blow on the same day a high-level panel in Washington recommended gradually shifting U.S. forces from a combat to a training role....
With the release of the information by the Iraq Study Group, the ball appears to be in President Bush's Court. What will he do? Bush could say thank you very much, but no thank you. No matter what he does, it is clear that Iraq is a mess.
