_with_no_end_in_sight___ 172005 * a_point_in_time * _'American_consciousness'_ 050107 ... U.S. Moment_of_truth WASHINGTON - The strain of fighting a counter-insurgency war in Iraq, on a scale not foreseen even a year ago and _with_no_end_in_sight___, is taking a startling toll on the American military. The U.S. death count is rising — at least 1,350 in all, rising by 70 or more each month. Costs are escalating — more than $1 billion a week, with the total now exceeding $100 billion. 050108 ... 182005 Militants Kidnap Three Senior Iraqi Officials 19 minutes ago 050108 ... Yahoo! Search beheaded a man who worked for the U.S. military and killed at least four others, officials said Saturday, a day after a U.S. general warned that insurgents may be planning "horrific" attacks ahead of Jan. 30 elections. 050108 ... what_saddam_said ... 050108 ... And a_pet_within_100_days_'soda_flavor'_everywhere What's_Reality... 050108 ... 1112005 Powell admits to worries on Iraq's future January 11, 2005 050110 ... IED : The_Saddam_Magic... 050111 ... .&. vietraq. 050111 ... 1132005 Iraq Poll Fears Deepen as 2 Sistani Aides Killed 14 minutes ago 050113 ... Karma ...4122005, 4132005, 4142005... 050414 ... 2100 a_point_in_time.... 051130 ... in US military death_'toll' in Iraq rebounds April 2006... 060417 ... 2356 + 48 + ... 060417 ... dipperwell little things are blowing around and I am smiling in the tamarind wind pale blue taffeta hung up everywhere and pigs rooting for truffles in the dirt. it gives great cool breaths in my ears, in out in out faster and stronger, and without a doubt I know I'm flying careening bouncily over groceries below and upwards, on unknown vectors, twistily. freedom, white flags announcing victory, I blow through the laundry on the line not an aspiration in sight but trying out, experimenting with that hand or this leg, and nowhere to go but sideways. 060417 ... IED 's butterfly_effect... 060418 what's it to you? who go blather from