Americans Squirm as U.S. Death Toll in Iraq Surges: "65 percent said there had been an 'unacceptable' number of U.S. military casualties while 33 percent said the level was 'acceptable.'
Analysts said the mounting U.S. death toll illustrates the rising difficulty of the military task and threatens to undermine public support for Bush's Iraq policies during a presidential election year.
'What it shows is that the breadth of the insurgency is increasing, that our troops are confronting firefights on multiple fronts, and the sophistication of the insurgents is growing,' said Cato Institute defense analyst Ted Carpenter.
'This doesn't bode well for the fate of our mission, unfortunately.'
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has expressed surprise at the recent level of U.S. military deaths in Iraq."
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