Good thing Saddam was captured, dealing a crippling blow to the Iraqi resistance and guaranteeing a joyful victory in the War on Terror
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Two U.S. soldiers were killed by bombs in two separate incidents in Iraq on Friday, a U.S. military spokesman said.
A roadside bomb killed one soldier and wounded another when it detonated by a convoy near Baquba, about 40 miles north of Baghdad, early on Friday, and a second soldier was killed trying to defuse a bomb outside the town, Captain Jefferson Wolfe said.
Two other U.S. soldiers were killed in a mortar attack on a U.S. camp near Baquba on Thursday, extending the biggest spate of guerrilla activity in and around the Iraqi capital since U.S. forces captured Saddam Hussein earlier this month.
The deaths bring to 210 the number of U.S. killed-in-action since Washington declared an end to major combat on May 1, a figure that boosts pressure on the U.S. administration as it mounts its campaign for the 2004 presidential election.
And also
Guerrillas also wounded two Polish soldiers in an ambush in southern Iraq, the latest in a string of attacks on the forces of countries which have answered Washington's call for troops to help it secure the country it invaded to topple Saddam.
The U.S. military said it had arrested 66 people in a night swoop in Baghdad, including a major general with links to Saddam and 20 other "significant" figures.
The attacks overnight capped a Christmas Day in Iraq shaded with gloom by projectiles that slammed into Baghdad hotels used by Westerners, embassies and an apartment block, as well as near the headquarters of the U.S.-led occupation.
For anyone that's counting, that's 12 soldiers who have been killed since Monday. A tragic waste courtesy of George Bush.
But don't worry. It's no skin of his back.
It's not his kids dying this holiday season.