Summary: Weekly report of U.S. military deaths in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan), compiled from U.S. Department of Defense News Releases. One-year retrospective #1: One year ago today, on January 6, 2009, Aubrey Immelman announced the Mass of Christian Burial for Br. Dietrich Reinhart, president emeritus of Saint John’s University, in the Saint John’s Abbey Church, Collegeville, Minn. … One-year retrospective #2: One year ago today, on January 6, 2009, Aubrey Immelman featured year-end “honors” for U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann that couldn’t be accommodated in his December 31, 2008 Minnesota 6th Congressional District Year in Review. He also reported that former U.S.-installed prime minister of Iraq Iyad Allawi — comparing the U.S. decision to hasten elections in Iraq with the Bush administration’s support for a vote in the Palestinian territories that was won by U.S. foe Hamas in 2006 — said that despite repeated warnings U.S. officials blindly foisted a Western-style democracy on Iraq, helping plunge it into sectarian bloodshed and a political morass.

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