Monday, March 26, 2007

Newsweek: Last Letters

This morning on MSNBC's Imus in the Morning, Jon Meacham, Newsweek editor, described the cover story from the magazine's latest edition. The cover of Newsweek reads VOICES OF THE FALLEN: Any day I'm here could be the day I die. The article is about the last letters written by those Americans who were killed in Iraq.

This weekend, 5 Americans were killed in Iraq. CBS4 Denver: With U.S. attack helicopters buzzing overhead, gunmen and Iraqi security forces clashed Sunday in a Sunni area in central Baghdad, and police said at least two people were killed in fighting in the neighborhood's narrow streets and alleys. Roadside bombings, meanwhile, killed five U.S. soldiers, including four in a single strike in a volatile province northeast of the capital....
...The U.S. military said it had no immediate reports about the fighting in Baghdad, but later Sunday announced that four Americans had been killed when a roadside bomb hit their patrol in Diyala province. A roadside bomb also killed a U.S. soldier and wounded two others during a route clearance mission in northwestern Baghdad....

President Bush keeps threatening to veto a bill that has a time table for the pullout of American troops from Iraq. If Bush does use his veto power, it will delay pay checks for the troops in mid-April. Call your U.S. Senator and member of the House of Representatives and tell them to vote to override a Bush veto of the bill:

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