Wednesday, August 27, 2003
US vows 'no retreat' from Iraq
BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | US vows 'no retreat' from Iraq:
"US President George W Bush has said there will be no retreat from Iraq or from the war against terror.
Mr Bush was speaking to US military veterans as the number of American deaths since the end of major combat operations on 1 May surpassed the number killed during the war.
Mr Bush told the gathering in St Louis, Missouri, that it was a choice between 'civilisation and chaos'.
Opposition politicians in the US have criticised his speech with one Democrat dismissing it as 'empty rhetoric'.
A US soldier was killed and two others wounded on Tuesday in an attack on a convoy in the town of Hamariya - about 25 kilometres (16 miles) north-west of Baghdad.
Figures released by the Pentagon showed that the number of deaths since 1 May had risen to 139, of whom 62 were killed by hostile fire.
Up until 1 May, 138 US troops had died in Iraq. "
"US President George W Bush has said there will be no retreat from Iraq or from the war against terror.
Mr Bush was speaking to US military veterans as the number of American deaths since the end of major combat operations on 1 May surpassed the number killed during the war.
Mr Bush told the gathering in St Louis, Missouri, that it was a choice between 'civilisation and chaos'.
Opposition politicians in the US have criticised his speech with one Democrat dismissing it as 'empty rhetoric'.
A US soldier was killed and two others wounded on Tuesday in an attack on a convoy in the town of Hamariya - about 25 kilometres (16 miles) north-west of Baghdad.
Figures released by the Pentagon showed that the number of deaths since 1 May had risen to 139, of whom 62 were killed by hostile fire.
Up until 1 May, 138 US troops had died in Iraq. "
