Reminder: We are still fight a war, people are still dying

It's been a while since we updated the blog and it's because we've fallen prey to the general sentiment of the country. We are forgetting that everyday, US soldiers and Iraqi and Afghani civilians are dying. Just because your nightly news has forgotten about this war doesn't mean it's gone away.

Attacks against U.S. troops have increased following a call earlier this month from al-Qaida in Iraq’s leader to target American forces, the top U.S. military spokesman said Wednesday.

Meantime, an Iraqi police headquarters in Baghdad was hit by a suicide truck bomb, killing at least seven people in a deadly 24-hour period that saw more than 45 killings throughout Iraq, authorities said.

Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell also said that Iraqi and American troops were expecting violence to increase further during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, which begins next week...

In other violence reported Wednesday, the mutilated body of a policeman was turned in to the morgue in Kut, about 100 miles southeast of Baghdad, after being found in the al-Falahiya district east of the city in the morning.

The body of Mahmoud Hassan Mohammed was found blindfolded with his arms and legs cuffed, and he was shot in various place and showed signs of torture, morgue official Mamoun Ajeel Al-Rubai’ey said.

The body of an unknown civilian in a similar condition also was turned in to the morgue after being dragged out of the Tigris River about 30 miles south of Baghdad, Al-Rubai’ey said.

Nearly 200 bodies of Iraqis who had been tortured and shot have turned up around Baghdad in the past week, including three found Tuesday in an eastern section of the capital.