Defense chief Rumsfeld says Military Deaths are cost of fighting terrorism

Friday, September 10, 2004 at 03:29AM
TheSpook

With the number of U.S. military deaths in Iraq apparently reaching the 1,000 mark, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld met the symbolic figure head-on Tuesday at the Pentagon. He said the deaths were part of the cost of going on the offensive against terrorism and related the count to attacks ranging from recent Russian school deaths to the Sept. 11 strikes three years ago. [more ] The War in Iraq has nothing to do with terrorism and it has nothing to do  with school deaths in Russia.

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Article originally appeared on (http://brownwatch.com/).