The killings of two Americans took the monthly U.S. death toll in Iraq on Monday to more than 100 for the first time in nearly two years, just a week before elections that could cost Bush's Republicans control of Congress. Pressure has mounted ahead of the November 7 congressional poll to extract U.S. troops from the bloody turmoil afflicting Iraq since Bush ordered the invasion 3-1/2 years ago. But the Iraqi government, despite open friction with Washington this past week, said it wanted the U.N. mandate extended by a year. Speaking shortly after a bomb killed 28 people in a Baghdad Shi'ite slum on a day that saw at least 70 Iraqis killed across the country, Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari told Reuters: "The presence of the Multi-National Force is indispensable for the security and stability of Iraq and of the region at the moment." Iraq has become central to the congressional election campaign. Bush is rallying his Republic supporters, defending his policy and ...
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