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From MSNBC:

A roadside bomb killed four U.S. soldiers in Baghdad on Sunday, the military said, pushing the overall American death toll in the five-year war to at least 4,000.

The grim milestone came on the same day that rockets and mortars pounded the U.S.-protected Green Zone, underscoring the fragile security situation and the resilience of both Sunni and Shiite extremist groups.

We have to keep saying this over and over as long as we have to. The occupation of Iraq is not worth it, and the occupation is the principal cause of the ongoing violence. There is nothing further the U.S. can accomplish militarily in Iraq. We should have withdrawn our forces years ago.

News update:

Iraq is getting worse. American forces have just experienced the most violent two-week period in Iraq since September 2007, with 25 killed. US and Iraqi forces are involved in a huge operation attempting to secure Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city. Basra, the third largest city, currently engulfed in a particularly bloody battle among three Shiite militias.

Baghdad is becoming more violent every day. Rocket and mortar barrages pounded the Green Zone yesterday, causing casualties, and elsewhere in the city a car bomb, another roadside bomb, and another mortar attack made for a bloody day.

Even Anbar Province, home of the much-heralded Sunni Awakening, is headed for trouble again. Growing anger at a lack of jobs, basic services and political progress threatens to shatter the hard-won security of places like Fallujah and Ramadi.

Of course, the decision to invade Iraq five years ago was deeply wrong and disastrous. This would be true even if 4,000 Americans didn’t die, 97 percent of them after “Mission Accomplished.”

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