Eyeballing the Iraq Kill and Maim Zone

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9 March 2005.

1,559 US Military Dead During Iraq War: http://cryptome.org/mil-dead-iqw.htm

See also DoD tally: http://www.defenselink.mil/news/casualty.pdf

Photo captions by Associated Press.

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Insurgents carrying rocket-propelled grenade launchers take up position in Ramadi, an insurgent stronghold 113 kilometers (70 miles) west of Baghdad in Iraq, Wednesday, March 9, 2005. Iraqi soldiers sealed off the roads leading to Ramadi on Wednesday and insurgents roamed the city streets, causing shops to close and the streets to empty of civilians fearing possible clashes. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
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An insurgent carrying a rocket-propelled grenade launcher takes up position in Ramadi, an insurgent stronghold 113 kilometers (70 miles) west of Baghdad in Iraq Wednesday, March 9, 2005. Iraqi soldiers sealed off the roads leading to Ramadi on Wednesday and insurgents roamed the city streets, causing shops to close and the streets to empty of civilians fearing possible clashes. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

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Insurgents carrying rocket-propelled grenade launchers take up position in Ramadi, an insurgent stronghold 113 kilometers (70 miles) west of Baghdad in Iraq Wednesday, March 9, 2005. Iraqi soldiers sealed off the roads leading to Ramadi on Wednesday and insurgents roamed the city streets, causing shops to close and the streets to empty of civilians fearing possible clashes. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
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An insurgent fighter carrying a rocket-propelled grenade launcher takes up position in Ramadi, an insurgent stronghold 113 kilometers (70 miles) west of Baghdad in Iraq, Wednesday, March 9, 2005. Iraqi soldiers sealed off the roads leading to Ramadi on Wednesday and insurgents roamed the city streets, causing shops to close and the streets to empty of civilians fearing possible clashes. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

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Flames burn at the scene after a garbage truck exploded at dawn near a hotel used by western contractors in central Baghdad, Iraq Wednesday, March 9, 2005. The blast shook buildings and covered the area with acrid black smoke, and volleys of automatic weapons fire could be heard before and after the blast which occurred a few blocks from Firdous Square, the roundabout in central Baghdad where Iraqis toppled a statue of Saddam Hussein on April 9, 2003. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
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U.S. soldiers attend the scene after a garbage truck exploded at dawn near a hotel used by western contractors in central Baghdad, Iraq Wednesday, March 9, 2005. The blast shook buildings and covered the area with acrid black smoke, and volleys of automatic weapons fire could be heard before and after the blast which occurred a few blocks from Firdous Square, the roundabout in central Baghdad where Iraqis toppled a statue of Saddam Hussein on April 9, 2003. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

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A man shouts across the scene after a garbage truck exploded at dawn near a hotel used by western contractors in central Baghdad, Iraq Wednesday, March 9, 2005. The blast shook buildings and covered the area with acrid black smoke, and volleys of automatic weapons fire could be heard before and after the blast which occurred a few blocks from Firdous Square, the roundabout in central Baghdad where Iraqis toppled a statue of Saddam Hussein on April 9, 2003. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
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An injured woman shouts for her daughter as she runs from the scene after a garbage truck exploded at dawn near a hotel used by western contractors in central Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, March 9, 2005. The blast shook buildings and covered the area with acrid black smoke, and volleys of automatic weapons fire could be heard before and after the blast which occurred a few blocks from Firdous Square, the roundabout in central Baghdad where Iraqis toppled a statue of Saddam Hussein on April 9, 2003. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

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A firefighter runs through the blast site after a garbage truck exploded at dawn near a hotel used by western contractors in central Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, March 9, 2005. The blast shook buildings and covered the area with acrid black smoke, and volleys of automatic weapons fire could be heard before and after the blast which occurred a few blocks from Firdous Square, the roundabout in central Baghdad where Iraqis toppled a statue of Saddam Hussein on April 9, 2003. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
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** CORRECTS NATIONALITY OF SOLDIER ** A Iraqi soldier stands by the crater after a garbage truck exploded at dawn near a hotel used by western contractors in central Baghdad, Iraq Wednesday, March 9, 2005. The blast shook buildings and covered the area with acrid black smoke, and volleys of automatic weapons fire could be heard before and after the blast which occurred a few blocks from Firdous Square, the roundabout in central Baghdad where Iraqis toppled a statue of Saddam Hussein on April 9, 2003. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

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An injured man is stretchered away after a garbage truck exploded at dawn near a hotel used by western contractors in central Baghdad, Iraq Wednesday, March 9, 2005. The blast shook buildings and covered the area with acrid black smoke, and volleys of automatic weapons fire could be heard before and after the blast which occurred a few blocks from Firdous Square, the roundabout in central Baghdad where Iraqis toppled a statue of Saddam Hussein on April 9, 2003. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
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An injured man is rushed from the scene after a garbage truck exploded at dawn near a hotel used by western contractors in central Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, March 9, 2005. The blast shook buildings and covered the area with acrid black smoke, and volleys of automatic weapons fire could be heard before and after the blast which occurred a few blocks from Firdous Square, the roundabout in central Baghdad where Iraqis toppled a statue of Saddam Hussein on April 9, 2003. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

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A U.S. soldier attends the scene after a garbage truck exploded at dawn, killing at least four people, near a hotel used by western contractors in central Baghdad, Iraq Wednesday, March 9, 2005. The blast shook buildings and covered the area with acrid black smoke, and volleys of automatic weapons fire could be heard before and after the blast which occurred a few blocks from Firdous Square, the roundabout in central Baghdad where Iraqis toppled a statue of Saddam Hussein on April 9, 2003. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
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Sattar Jabor, center, weeps on the coffin of his brother Jabbar Jabor, with un-named policeman at left, at his funeral in the southern town of Basra in Iraq Wednesday, March 9, 2005. Jabbar Jabor was a police officer when guerrillas struck at his police patrol with a roadside bomb killing Jabbar and wounding three others. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)

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Spc. Dustin Icenhower plays with his 11-month-old daughter, Anabeth, as his wife, Kristen, looks on during a welcome home ceremony at Fort Sill, Okla., Tuesday, March 8, 2005. Icenhower is one of about 250 soldiers from the 39th Brigade Combat Team of the Arkansas National Guard to return from Iraq. (AP Photo/The Lawton Constitution, Randy Stotler)
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First Lt. Rick Caldwell gets a kiss from his wife Sherry during a welcome home ceremony at Fort Sill, Okla. Tuesday March 8, 2005. Caldwell is one of about 250 soldiers from the 39th Brigade Combat Team of the Arkansas National Guard to return from Iraq. (AP Photo/The Lawton Constitution, Randy Stotler)

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John Bolton, President Bush's choice for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations in seen at the State Department in Washington, Monday, March 7, 2005. Bolton has written about the International Criminal Court, criticized the United Nations and argued that U.S. interests take precedence over diplomatic harmony. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
New York Times, March 9, 2005
EDITORIAL
The World According to Bolton
On Monday, President Bush nominated John Bolton, an outspoken critic of multinational institutions and a former Jesse Helms protégé, to be the representative to the United Nations. We won't make the case that this is a terrible choice at a critical time. We can let Mr. Bolton do it for us by examining how things might look if he had his way:
The United States could resolve international disputes after vigorous debate with ... itself. In an interview in 2000 on National Public Radio, Mr. Bolton told Juan Williams, "If I were redoing the Security Council today, I'd have one permanent member because that's the real reflection of the distribution of power in the world."
"And that one member would be, John Bolton?" Mr. Williams queried.
"The United States," Mr. Bolton replied.
America could stop worrying about China ... In 1999, when he was senior vice president of the American Enterprise Institute, Mr. Bolton wrote a column in The Weekly Standard advocating that the United States just go ahead and give Taiwan diplomatic recognition, despite the fact that this purely symbolic gesture was a point on which China had repeatedly threatened to go to war. He made this argument: "Diplomatic recognition of Taiwan would be just the kind of demonstration of U.S. leadership that the region needs and that many of its people hope for. ... The notion that China would actually respond with force is a fantasy, albeit one the Communist leaders welcome and encourage in the West."
... and North Korea. In 1999, Mr. Bolton told The Los Angeles Times: "A sounder U.S. policy would start by making it clear to the North that we are indifferent to whether we ever have 'normal' diplomatic relations with it, and that achieving that goal is entirely in their interests, not ours. We should also make clear that diplomatic normalization with the U.S. is only going to come when North Korea becomes a normal country."
U.N. dues? What U.N. dues? In 1997, Mr. Bolton wrote in a column in The Wall Street Journal that the United States isn't legally bound to pay its United Nations dues. "Treaties are 'law' only for U.S. domestic purposes," he said. "In their international operations, treaties are simply 'political' obligations."
And forget about the International Criminal Court. In 2000, Mr. Bolton told the House International Relations Committee: "Support for the International Criminal Court concept is based largely on emotional appeals to an abstract ideal of an international judicial system unsupported by any meaningful evidence and running contrary to sound principles of international crisis resolution."
We certainly look forward to Mr. Bolton's confirmation hearings, and, after that, his performance at the United Nations, where he will undoubtedly do a fine job continuing the Bush administration's charm offensive with the rest of the world.
Which leaves us wondering what Mr. Bush's next nomination will be. Donald Rumsfeld to negotiate a new set of Geneva Conventions? Martha Stewart to run the Securities and Exchange Commission? Kenneth Lay for energy secretary?

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Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco, right, sits with Pedro Alvarez, chairman of the Cuban food import firm, in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, March 8, 2005. Blanco arrived to Cuba to drum up business for her home state despite moves by the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush to make already limited American trade with Cuba even harder. (AP Photo/Jorge Rey) **EFE OUT**
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Sharing a light moment, U.S. presidents Bill Clinton, right, and George H.W. Bush, left, _ former political rivals _ meet with President George W. Bush in the Oval Office to report on their recent tour of the Asian tsunami devastation, at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, March 8, 2005. After the disaster, President Bush asked his father and Clinton, former political adversaries, to lead the American effort to raise private funds for tsunami relief. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Photo captions by Associated Press.
Insurgents carrying rocket-propelled grenade launchers take up position in Ramadi, an insurgent stronghold 113 kilometers (70 miles) west of Baghdad in Iraq, Wednesday, March 9, 2005. Iraqi soldiers sealed off the roads leading to Ramadi on Wednesday and insurgents roamed the city streets, causing shops to close and the streets to empty of civilians fearing possible clashes. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)	An insurgent carrying a rocket-propelled grenade launcher takes up position in Ramadi, an insurgent stronghold 113 kilometers (70 miles) west of Baghdad in Iraq Wednesday, March 9, 2005. Iraqi soldiers sealed off the roads leading to Ramadi on Wednesday and insurgents roamed the city streets, causing shops to close and the streets to empty of civilians fearing possible clashes. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
Insurgents carrying rocket-propelled grenade launchers take up position in Ramadi, an insurgent stronghold 113 kilometers (70 miles) west of Baghdad in Iraq Wednesday, March 9, 2005. Iraqi soldiers sealed off the roads leading to Ramadi on Wednesday and insurgents roamed the city streets, causing shops to close and the streets to empty of civilians fearing possible clashes. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)	An insurgent fighter carrying a rocket-propelled grenade launcher takes up position in Ramadi, an insurgent stronghold 113 kilometers (70 miles) west of Baghdad in Iraq, Wednesday, March 9, 2005. Iraqi soldiers sealed off the roads leading to Ramadi on Wednesday and insurgents roamed the city streets, causing shops to close and the streets to empty of civilians fearing possible clashes. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
Flames burn at the scene after a garbage truck exploded at dawn near a hotel used by western contractors in central Baghdad, Iraq Wednesday, March 9, 2005. The blast shook buildings and covered the area with acrid black smoke, and volleys of automatic weapons fire could be heard before and after the blast which occurred a few blocks from Firdous Square, the roundabout in central Baghdad where Iraqis toppled a statue of Saddam Hussein on April 9, 2003. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)	U.S. soldiers attend the scene after a garbage truck exploded at dawn near a hotel used by western contractors in central Baghdad, Iraq Wednesday, March 9, 2005. The blast shook buildings and covered the area with acrid black smoke, and volleys of automatic weapons fire could be heard before and after the blast which occurred a few blocks from Firdous Square, the roundabout in central Baghdad where Iraqis toppled a statue of Saddam Hussein on April 9, 2003. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
A man shouts across the scene after a garbage truck exploded at dawn near a hotel used by western contractors in central Baghdad, Iraq Wednesday, March 9, 2005. The blast shook buildings and covered the area with acrid black smoke, and volleys of automatic weapons fire could be heard before and after the blast which occurred a few blocks from Firdous Square, the roundabout in central Baghdad where Iraqis toppled a statue of Saddam Hussein on April 9, 2003. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)	An injured woman shouts for her daughter as she runs from the scene after a garbage truck exploded at dawn near a hotel used by western contractors in central Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, March 9, 2005. The blast shook buildings and covered the area with acrid black smoke, and volleys of automatic weapons fire could be heard before and after the blast which occurred a few blocks from Firdous Square, the roundabout in central Baghdad where Iraqis toppled a statue of Saddam Hussein on April 9, 2003. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
A firefighter runs through the blast site after a garbage truck exploded at dawn near a hotel used by western contractors in central Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, March 9, 2005. The blast shook buildings and covered the area with acrid black smoke, and volleys of automatic weapons fire could be heard before and after the blast which occurred a few blocks from Firdous Square, the roundabout in central Baghdad where Iraqis toppled a statue of Saddam Hussein on April 9, 2003. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)	CORRECTS NATIONALITY OF SOLDIER A Iraqi soldier stands by the crater after a garbage truck exploded at dawn near a hotel used by western contractors in central Baghdad, Iraq Wednesday, March 9, 2005. The blast shook buildings and covered the area with acrid black smoke, and volleys of automatic weapons fire could be heard before and after the blast which occurred a few blocks from Firdous Square, the roundabout in central Baghdad where Iraqis toppled a statue of Saddam Hussein on April 9, 2003. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
An injured man is stretchered away after a garbage truck exploded at dawn near a hotel used by western contractors in central Baghdad, Iraq Wednesday, March 9, 2005. The blast shook buildings and covered the area with acrid black smoke, and volleys of automatic weapons fire could be heard before and after the blast which occurred a few blocks from Firdous Square, the roundabout in central Baghdad where Iraqis toppled a statue of Saddam Hussein on April 9, 2003. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)	An injured man is rushed from the scene after a garbage truck exploded at dawn near a hotel used by western contractors in central Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, March 9, 2005. The blast shook buildings and covered the area with acrid black smoke, and volleys of automatic weapons fire could be heard before and after the blast which occurred a few blocks from Firdous Square, the roundabout in central Baghdad where Iraqis toppled a statue of Saddam Hussein on April 9, 2003. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
A U.S. soldier attends the scene after a garbage truck exploded at dawn, killing at least four people, near a hotel used by western contractors in central Baghdad, Iraq Wednesday, March 9, 2005. The blast shook buildings and covered the area with acrid black smoke, and volleys of automatic weapons fire could be heard before and after the blast which occurred a few blocks from Firdous Square, the roundabout in central Baghdad where Iraqis toppled a statue of Saddam Hussein on April 9, 2003. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)	Sattar Jabor, center, weeps on the coffin of his brother Jabbar Jabor, with un-named policeman at left, at his funeral in the southern town of Basra in Iraq Wednesday, March 9, 2005. Jabbar Jabor was a police officer when guerrillas struck at his police patrol with a roadside bomb killing Jabbar and wounding three others. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)
Spc. Dustin Icenhower plays with his 11-month-old daughter, Anabeth, as his wife, Kristen, looks on during a welcome home ceremony at Fort Sill, Okla., Tuesday, March 8, 2005. Icenhower is one of about 250 soldiers from the 39th Brigade Combat Team of the Arkansas National Guard to return from Iraq. (AP Photo/The Lawton Constitution, Randy Stotler)	First Lt. Rick Caldwell gets a kiss from his wife Sherry during a welcome home ceremony at Fort Sill, Okla. Tuesday March 8, 2005. Caldwell is one of about 250 soldiers from the 39th Brigade Combat Team of the Arkansas National Guard to return from Iraq. (AP Photo/The Lawton Constitution, Randy Stotler)
John Bolton, President Bush's choice for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations in seen at the State Department in Washington, Monday, March 7, 2005. Bolton has written about the International Criminal Court, criticized the United Nations and argued that U.S. interests take precedence over diplomatic harmony. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)	New York Times, March 9, 2005 EDITORIAL The World According to Bolton On Monday, President Bush nominated John Bolton, an outspoken critic of multinational institutions and a former Jesse Helms protégé, to be the representative to the United Nations. We won't make the case that this is a terrible choice at a critical time. We can let Mr. Bolton do it for us by examining how things might look if he had his way: The United States could resolve international disputes after vigorous debate with ... itself. In an interview in 2000 on National Public Radio, Mr. Bolton told Juan Williams, "If I were redoing the Security Council today, I'd have one permanent member because that's the real reflection of the distribution of power in the world." "And that one member would be, John Bolton?" Mr. Williams queried. "The United States," Mr. Bolton replied. America could stop worrying about China ... In 1999, when he was senior vice president of the American Enterprise Institute, Mr. Bolton wrote a column in The Weekly Standard advocating that the United States just go ahead and give Taiwan diplomatic recognition, despite the fact that this purely symbolic gesture was a point on which China had repeatedly threatened to go to war. He made this argument: "Diplomatic recognition of Taiwan would be just the kind of demonstration of U.S. leadership that the region needs and that many of its people hope for. ... The notion that China would actually respond with force is a fantasy, albeit one the Communist leaders welcome and encourage in the West." ... and North Korea. In 1999, Mr. Bolton told The Los Angeles Times: "A sounder U.S. policy would start by making it clear to the North that we are indifferent to whether we ever have 'normal' diplomatic relations with it, and that achieving that goal is entirely in their interests, not ours. We should also make clear that diplomatic normalization with the U.S. is only going to come when North Korea becomes a normal country." U.N. dues? What U.N. dues? In 1997, Mr. Bolton wrote in a column in The Wall Street Journal that the United States isn't legally bound to pay its United Nations dues. "Treaties are 'law' only for U.S. domestic purposes," he said. "In their international operations, treaties are simply 'political' obligations." And forget about the International Criminal Court. In 2000, Mr. Bolton told the House International Relations Committee: "Support for the International Criminal Court concept is based largely on emotional appeals to an abstract ideal of an international judicial system unsupported by any meaningful evidence and running contrary to sound principles of international crisis resolution." We certainly look forward to Mr. Bolton's confirmation hearings, and, after that, his performance at the United Nations, where he will undoubtedly do a fine job continuing the Bush administration's charm offensive with the rest of the world. Which leaves us wondering what Mr. Bush's next nomination will be. Donald Rumsfeld to negotiate a new set of Geneva Conventions? Martha Stewart to run the Securities and Exchange Commission? Kenneth Lay for energy secretary?
Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco, right, sits with Pedro Alvarez, chairman of the Cuban food import firm, in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, March 8, 2005. Blanco arrived to Cuba to drum up business for her home state despite moves by the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush to make already limited American trade with Cuba even harder. (AP Photo/Jorge Rey) EFE OUT	Sharing a light moment, U.S. presidents Bill Clinton, right, and George H.W. Bush, left, _ former political rivals _ meet with President George W. Bush in the Oval Office to report on their recent tour of the Asian tsunami devastation, at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, March 8, 2005. After the disaster, President Bush asked his father and Clinton, former political adversaries, to lead the American effort to raise private funds for tsunami relief. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)