Bush: Risks continue for US forces in Iraq

With the US military death toll in Iraq at 1,999, US President George Bush today warned the nation to brace for an even higher casualty count as the mission there has more work remaining to be successful.

“The terrorists are as brutal an enemy as we have ever faced, unconstrained by any notion of common humanity and by the rules of warfare,” Bush said in a speech before the Joint Armed Forces Officers’ Wives’ luncheon, held at Bolling Air Force Base.