But I thought we were safer with Saddam gone? Troop Deaths Rising Again...

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Friday, Mar. 26, 2004 Friday, Mar. 26, 2004 at 9:20:09pm PST

Add another soldier to ChimpyRice's body count:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040327/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_us_toll_rising&am p;cid=540&ncid=1480

U.S. Troop Deaths in Iraq Again Rising

By ROBERT BURNS, AP Military Writer

WASHINGTON - After a marked decline in U.S. troop deaths in Iraq (news - web sites) in February, the toll is again escalating.

So far this month 37 U.S. troops and two Department of the Army civilians have died, according to the Pentagon (news - web sites)'s count. The two civilians, Fern L. Holland and Robert J. Zangas, were the first Pentagon civilians to be killed in Iraq. They were slain by Iraqi policemen on March 9.

The Pentagon's count does not include a Marine who was reported killed Friday in heavy fighting in the city of Fallujah, west of Baghdad. The Marine's name has not been released so he is not yet on the Pentagon list.