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 | Members of a Marine honor guard carry the casket of Lance Corporal Eduardo Lopez, killed on October 19 in Iraq, to a grave side service at St. Paul cemetery in Montgomery, Illinois, October 30, 2006. The monthly U.S. death toll in Iraq on Monday climbed to over 100 for the first time in nearly two years, just a week before elections that could cost President George W. Bush's Republicans control of Congress. click to open  |  | Members of a Marine honor guard carry the casket of Lance Corporal Eduardo Lopez, killed on October 19 in Iraq, to a grave side service at St. Paul cemetery in Montgomery, Illinois, October 30, 2006. The monthly U.S. death toll in Iraq on Monday climbed to over 100 for the first time in nearly two years, just a week before elections that could cost President George W. Bush's Republicans control of Congress. click to open |  | Spec. Bryan Montgomery, 22, center, of Greensburg, Ky., walks with his fiance, Brandy Nash, left, and his mother Patricia Montgomery after returning from Iraq Saturday, Jan. 21, 2006 with other members of the Kentucky National Guard's Battery B, 1st Battalion, 623rd Field Artillery to the Kentucky Air National Guard Base in Louisville, Ky. Other soldiers in the battery, Spec. Montgomery's twin brother, Sgt. Ryan Montgomery and Sgt. Jonathan Adams Hughes, died from roadside bombs in separate combat incidents. click to open |  | U.S. Army Maj. Keith Hayes of Columbia, South Carolina, of the 3rd Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division, plays a game of chess with a civilian contractor in a coffeeshop on a military base near Baqouba, Iraq, on Oct. 21, 2005. As U.S. forces approach a dark milestone of 2,000 American dead since the war began in March 2003, many say morale has remained high, bolstered by the need to protect each other, by concentrating on their daily assigned tasks _ and by amenities provided by the military to keep life in a war zone as normal as possible. click to open |  | U.S. Army Pfc. Sean Rolling, of Boston, of the 110th Field Artillery Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division, sips a drink in a fortified coffeeshop during a pause between missions near Baqouba, Iraq, on Oct. 21, 2005. As U.S forces approach a dark milestone of 2,000 American dead since the war began in March 2003, many say morale has remained high, bolstered by the need to protect each other, by concentrating on their daily assigned tasks _ and by amenities provided by the military to keep life in a war zone as normal as possible. click to open |  | U.S. President George W. Bush (L) shakes the hand of Marine Corporal Anthony Gower after presenting him with a Purple Heart at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, July 30, 2005. Gower, a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania native is recovering from injuries received in Operation Iraqi Freedom. click to open |  | U.S. President Bush, left, greets U.S. Marine Jacob Knospler, Stroudsburg, Penn. during his visit with troops injured in Iraq Saturday, July 30, 2005 at National Naval Medical Center in suburban Washington. Ten-month-old Jahna Knospler is asleep at her father's side. click to open |  | U.S. President Bush greets U.S. Marine Cpl. Sean Locker, Jessup, Md. at National Navy Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. Saturday, July 30, 2005. The President visited with troops after getting his annual physical. Locker was awarded a Purple Heart for his injuries. click to open |  | U.S. President Bush hugs Molley Sloan, second from right, the mother of U.S Marine Capt. Stephen Sloan, Hayden, Ala., second from left as Bush visited troops at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. Saturday, July 30, 2005. At left is Sloan's wife Courtney and their ten-month-old son, Samuel. At right is Sloan's father, Carlos Sloan. The President's visit came after his annual physical at the facility. click to open |  | Gulf War II - Pfc. Jessica Lynch, 20, talks to reporters as returns to her neighborhood in Elizabeth, West Virginia, July 22, 2003. Lynch was taken prisoner during the Iraq war and was held for over a week before being rescued by U.S. Special Forces. REUTERS/Blake Sell click to open |
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