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"U.S. President George W. Bush has secretly flown to Baghdad for Thanksgiving dinner with U.S. troops in a bid to boost the morale of forces amid mounting casualties and political pressure at home."
reuters
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"Since the toppling of Saddam Hussein's statue in Iraq, 2,195 American soldiers have been wounded in action and 350 US soldiers have been killed. Despite these numbers, you cannot count the number of military funerals President Bush has attended, not because there are too many to count, but because he hasn't attended any."