Comments on: 70 U.S. Troops Killed In Iraq This Month

October Could Be Deadliest For U.S. In Almost 2 Years, As 11 Killed Already This Week

[ralphj53]

October 18, 2006

Hello;

I have read other reader's comment on the way this Administration (Bush) is handling it's foreign affairs.... by way of IRAQ.

This is what I tell my friends. I FEAR for AMERICA. I also don't have a GUILTY concience about America's involvement in IRAQ. You know why?

Because I did NOT vote for Bush during the last election. I VOTED for KERRY. But BUSH won by only a SLIGHT margin.

So.... if that SMALL MARGIN voted for Bush in this last Election, DO NOT be surpised at the CARNAGE our American soldiers are going through at this moment. It's OBSCENE AND UGLY.. to say the least.

The world wonders. I think America was sold a "bill of goods", when the push for war centered on Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, which turned out to be NON-EXISTENT.

NOT ENOUGH reliable intelligence was gathered... and SOMEBODY made a HUGE mistake!

At the COST of our soldier's lives and families being EMOTIONALLY broken through all this sordid experience.

What a waste!!!

Thanks,
ralphj53

[one_american]

For all those who question why we are fighting in Iraq:

http://www.noterror.info

Get educated. Now.

For everyone else, please pass the word.

[usawatchman]

NOTHING HAS CHANGED
if OUR GOVERNMENT and OUR COURTS are CORRUPT

The TROOPS are DYING IN-VAIN for a LIE

ALL of these people who think they are fighting for AMERICA
the AMERICAN WAY
for FREEDOM, and LIBERTY

it is a LIE

The TRUTH IS IT all comes down to the COURTS and
COURTs are CORRUPT

UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT
James B. Veasaw v. Cari M. Domingues,et al.
No: 05-1467

the U.S. SUPREME COURT COVERED UP GOVERNMENT CRIME
even when the CRIMES showed up
on paper in the COURT RECORD..!

I guess we have a DOUBLE STANDARD JUSTICE SYSTEM
you know
ONE for the GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES
(Bureaucrats / Politicians)
and
ONE FOR THE PEASANTS
(The People)..!

[osidebear]

I'm sure getcentered knows perfectly well why we (that is to say, American soldiers) are dying in Iraq. It has to do with too many people in this country voting for a man with no morals, a man who is perfectly willing to have literally hundreds of thousands of people die for his petty dreams and enormous incompetence.

Americans and Iraqis are dying by the thousands because a small group of evil men, power-mad and money-hungry, managed to seize control of a nation blinded by fear after September 11 to use it for their own narrow ends. Some arrogantly believed that they could "reshape" the Middle East by recreating Iraq in the image of a Western liberal democracy. Others selfishly coveted the dollars that could be made through a destructive war and its aftermath.

The shame is that Americans as yet have not demanded that our government stop what it's doing and pursue a new path. While we can do that next month, it will take years - decades - to repair the damage done to our image. But no amount of time can fix those killed, in my opinion murdered, by the Bush administration.

[getcentered]

Why are we dying in Iraq?

How do we get out of this problem?

[nynative1340]

I see Bush going out in shame, as Johnson did. Wisely, Johnson saved what little 'face' he had left by not seeking re-election.

Sadly, we're stuck with this other dim-witted pseudo-Texan for another two years.

How many more will die...

[osidebear]

candojj, I don't think we're that far apart on the issue of corporate power in this country. It's obscene, totally out of control, and growing stronger. But I don't feel that it's out of our hands to make changes. Voting against the Republican power base this November can help. At the very least it might lead to a more rational policy with regard to Iraq. That is the subject of this series of postings.

I'm more interested in what your reaction is to those of us who questioned your shameful attitude toward American Muslims. I may have missed that post....

[bluestardad]

Can we truly endure another two years of this administration and their bungled war policies? Who's children will we send now?

[peterbaldwin-2009]

Sabrina Tavernise reports in th NY times that US and Iraqi forces "arrested" a senior aide to al-Sadr, a direct provocation that will certainly inflame the Mahdi Army, an army that Bush allowed to "mushroom" over the last two years on his watch,which will surely result in a further spike in US casualties. What the capricious, schizophrenic C-student will do next is anybody's guess. Midway through the first battle of Fallujah, he suddenly retreated, boosting the insurgency immeasurably. Ten deaths yesterday suggests that al-Sada is hitting back hard and it taking up the challenge. Bush better not blink, because if he throws in the towel and al-Sadra prevails, al-Sadra will instantly become a larger than life hero to the iraqi people. Then it really all over.

[rsoxfan1123]

nynative1340 -excellent posting. you should run for office.