Five American Troops Killed in Iraq

Five American troops were killed in Iraq, including one along the Syrian border during a major push to take control of the frontier from insurgents, the U.S. military said Friday.

Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari, meanwhile, said the government in Damascus must do more to stop foreign fighters from regularly slipping into Iraq from Syria.In a Veterans Day speech, President Bush forcefully attacked critics of the war, saying they are undercutting American forces on the front lines.

"The stakes in the global war on terror are too high and the national interest is too important for politicians to throw out false charges," Bush told a crowd at the Tobyhanna, Pa., Army Depot.

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