The blood of eight more American young people on George Bush's hands

CNN on the latest victims, both American soldiers and Iraqi civilians, of George W. Bush's Iraq meatgrinder:

Insurgent attacks during the past 24 hours have killed eight U.S. soldiers in Iraq, the military said Tuesday.

Three soldiers died in a car bombing in central Baghdad on Tuesday and a fourth -- who was manning an observation post -- was killed by a drive-by gunman, Task Force Baghdad spokesman, Maj. Darryl Wright said.

Four other American soldiers were killed by a bomb on Monday, the military said. They were assigned to the 155th Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force.

The explosive "detonated near their vehicle" in fighting in Haswa, south of Baghdad.

The deaths bring the number of U.S. troops killed in the Iraq war to 1,643, according to U.S. military reports.

Also Tuesday, a car bomb exploded near an Iraqi police convoy in eastern Baghdad, killing two civilians and wounding eight others in the Karrada neighborhood around a corner from a girls' school, police said.

In northeastern Mosul on Tuesday, a member of Iraqi civil defense died after a bomb he was trying to defuse detonated, a spokesman for the region's Joint Coordination Center said. Four others were wounded in the blast.

Iraqi officials said scores of people died Monday in a string of bombings throughout the nation -- some apparently targeting Shiite Muslims. (Full story)

In one of the Monday attacks, two car bombs targeting a home killed at least 15 civilians and wounded at least 20 in the northern city of Tal Afar, a government official said.

And President Delusional still insisted yesterday that everything is A-OK:

And if I may ask you, Mr. President, as you know, the casualties of Iraq is again high today -- 50 more people dying. Do you think that insurgence is getting harder now to defeat militarily? Thank you.

PRESIDENT BUSH: No, I don't think so. I think they're being defeated. And that's why they continue to fight. The worst thing for them is to see democracy. The President can speak to that firsthand. The worst problem that an ideologue that uses terror to try to get their way is to see a free society emerge. And I'm confident we're making great progress in Iraq.

And clearly, it's dangerous and we mourn the loss of life. On the other hand, the eight-and-a-half million Iraqis who went to the polls sent a very clear message to the world, that they want to be free.

Yes, they do. They want to be free of this American occupation and the many permanent U.S. bases that are planned for their country.

Let us not forget that this president to war based on lies...not misunderstandings, or "bad intelligence", but lies. He wanted to go to war against Iraq, and the intelligence community was ordered by Bush's henchmen to give them the intelligence to match the plan. The damning evidence in the Downing Street memo may be being ignored by the mainstream media, but that doesn't hide the reality that this president played on the fears of a frightened population because he wanted a war. Over 1600 young Americans and countless Iraqi civilians are dead, with more casualties every day, because of a lie. And there is no exit strategy, no plan to leave, no plan for nothing except feeding more kids into this meatgrinder every day in perpetuity.

His own party impeached a president for less.