Bomb Kills Four U.S. Soldiers in Iraq

On the last day of campaigning, a roadside bomb killed four American soldiers Tuesday and gunmen assassinated a candidate for parliament in this week's election. A Shiite politician escaped injury in a bombing south of Baghdad. A U.S. military statement said four soldiers from Task Force Baghdad died in a blast northwest of the capital, but did not specify the location. That brought to at least 2,150 the number of U.S. service members to have died since the start of the war in 2003, according to an Associated Press count. *Note-The DOD did report that our soldiers and Marines were still able to get school supplies to the Iraqi children and there were no major oil wells damaged.