Latest Update: Iraq coalition casualties rapidly increasing - Bush in troubled waters
As of today 2309 "coalition" forces troops have died of which 2108 US forces. Total number of seriously wounded coalition forces now stands at 15,568. Total Iraqi Security forces killed in action: 3648. Total innocent civilian deaths since beginning of invasion: more than 100.000. In Crawford, Texas — A repeat of last summer’s dueling rallies against the war and in support of President Bush drew crowds to Crawford on a cool, rainy Saturday. Closer to the Bush ranch, where the president celebrated Thanksgiving with his family, about 200 people rallied around Cindy Sheehan in a continuation of California woman’s summer protest against the war that claimed her son. They used the same private lot, near one of two Secret Service checkpoints, where Sheehan held part of the 26-day August vigil that reinvigorated the anti-war movement and made Sheehan a national figure. Some 20 demonstrators also stood in a ditch beside the other checkpoint about a mile away, avoiding violating recently passed roadside camping bans that led to 12 arrests a few days ago. “We have both of his exits covered,” said Sheehan, whose son Casey died in Iraq last year and who called on her supporters to resume the protest this week to coincide with Bush’s ranch visit. “We are exercising our patriotic duty to dissent,” she said.
A bipartisan majority of US senators, have proclaimed that 2006 should be a year of "significant transition to full Iraqi sovereignty" and more public reports of progress by the Administration. Bush approval ratings are now solidly below 40 percent in major polls, a sign that he is nearly down to his core GOP support and has lost the independent voters. Increasingly, he appears headed for trouble with elected members of his own party, as they eye their own '06 prospects. More alarming for the Administration must be that all polls also show Bush as an untrustworthy President.
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