BAGHDAD, March 27, 2007
Truck Bombs Kill 63 Iraqis In Tal Afar
Two U.S. Soldiers, One Contractor, Killed In Scattered Violence Around The Country
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Play CBS Video Video Violence Continues In Iraq Shiite militant bombs claimed the lives of five U.S. troops over the weekend. In Washington, Senate Democrats continued calls for the withdrawal of troops from Iraq. Tracie Strahan reports.
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Video Iraq's Black-Market Oil Each year in Iraq $5 billion is sucked out of the economy by oil smugglers who sell the product on the black market. Some of that cash is used to fund insurgents. Allen Pizzey reports.
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People help 8-year-old Sami Zaien al-Abideen in a hospital in Kirkuk, Iraq, on March 27, 2007. Sami and another boy were injured when a roadside bomb exploded outside their school. (AP Photo/Emad Matti)
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Medics help 9-year-old Shaheen Ahmed in Kirkuk, Iraq, on March 27, 2007. Ahmed was injured when a roadside bomb exploded outside his school. (AP Photo/Emad Matti)
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The departing U.S. ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, gestures during a press conference in the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad on March 26, 2007. (AP Photo/Mahmoud al-Badri)
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An Iraqi boy sleeps as U.S. Army soldiers from B Company, 1st Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment search his home in west Baghdad's Ghazaliyah neighborhood, March 25, 2007. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic)
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Interactive Iraq: 4 Years Later The conflict wears on as the nation struggles to rebuild.
The bombings in Tal Afar, about 90 miles from the Syrian border, highlighted the resurgent violence in a city President George W. Bush held out as a symbol of U.S. success a year ago.
The deadliest blast occurred when an explosives-laden trucks was detonated by remote control while people gathered to buy the flour it was carrying in a Shiite neighborhood in the center of the city, 260 miles northwest of Baghdad.
A truck loaded with vegetables also blew up near a wholesale market in a northern part of the city.
On Saturday, a man wearing an explosives belt blew himself up outside a pastry shop in the central market area in Tal Afar, killing at least 10 people and wounding three, just over a year after President Bush declared the city was an example of progress made in bringing security to Iraq.
The attacks came on a day when scattered violence left at least 16 other people dead around the country.
A suicide car bomber killed at least 10 people in a market near Ramadi Tuesday, a mortar attack on a Shiite area in southern Baghdad killed at least four people and police in the northern city of Kirkuk said intruders killed two elderly sisters, both nuns at the Cathedral of the Virgin.
The suicide bomber near Ramadi exploded his payload in the al-Jazeera district northeast of the provincial capital in an area that was not patrolled by the military, police Col. Tarik Yousif said.
In other developments:
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- The old saying goes something like this "those who fail to study history are doomed to repeat it." If one were to do a study of the militant side of Islam, the birthing place of the current wave of radical islamic terrorism, going back to the very beginning...submission, means permission to keep on advancing. Artificial time tables that would have our forces redeployed while guaranteeing a radical takeover of the nation are not helpful to anyone but the enemy. We need to leave Iraq, but neither the Democratic pary leadership in the nations capital or the terrorist on the ground in Iraq should dictate the terms. We should leave as soon as our military leadership believes Iraqi security services are ready to do the job themselves. A phased withdrawal with reasonable guidelines or bench marks that allow the Iraqi's to take control of their own destiny would be best. If you think the war is ugly now...just let the politicians run it...you have only to look at the mess they have produced in Washington to understand the dangers.
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- Who should we side with in Iraq's civil war?
- Should we side with the Pro-Sadam Sunni extremists that hate us?
or
- Should we side with the Pro-Iranian Shia extremists that hate us?
or
- Should we just stand in the middle and get shot at?
Posted by Jebby_One
-What if we just got out of that knee-deep-sh*t smellin' quagmire our beloved incompetent president dragged us in? with the nice and error-free intel he got from the as much incompetent CIA agents. Or was it an on-purpose bogus intel?
-Talking of knee-deep sh*t, he's about to push us in another one next door to Iraq. Get the hell outta there... - Reply to this comment
- RandalDS wrote:
"Been hitting the bottle a bit too much tonight jebby? What in the fu*ck does any of this have to do with Saddam or Iraq? Or are you just trying on of those famous republican diversions?"
When they have no answer or are too scared to offer an opinion that differs from their party politics, they turn to what they know best - lies and misdirection. - Reply to this comment
- Amazing .. So when are Liberals going to start demanding the arrest and punishment of the Cook County Sheriff. Or is abuse and torture of Americans being held at big DEMOCRAT county jails acceptable to Liberals?
http://www.newsday.com/news
/nationworld/chi-dpjailbeatings-special,
0,4681239.special?coll=sns-ap-nationworl
d-headlines
Posted by Jebby_One at 02:49 AM : Mar 28, 2007
Been hitting the bottle a bit too much tonight jebby? What in the fu*ck does any of this have to do with Saddam or Iraq? Or are you just trying on of those famous republican diversions? - Reply to this comment
- Neo-commie states :
Why in Hell should Saddam Hussein be responsible of the massacre of 148 Iraqi people, while our incompetent Rummy should not be held responsible of the savage treatment and torture of the 9 Iraqi prisonners under American forces occupation?
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Amazing .. So when are Liberals going to start demanding the arrest and punishment of the Cook County Sheriff. Or is abuse and torture of Americans being held at big DEMOCRAT county jails acceptable to Liberals?
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/chi-dpjailbeatings-special,0,4681239.special?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines - Reply to this comment
- Jebby_One wrote:
"Heaven forbid but one of these three possibilities will likely be better than siding with Liberals who hate us."
They don't hate you - they just pity the fact that you haven't been able to pull your head out of your a*se long enough to see the damage that Bush has done to the United States. - Reply to this comment
- Who should we side with in Iraq's civil war?
- Should we side with the Pro-Sadam Sunni extremists that hate us?
or
- Should we side with the Pro-Iranian Shia extremists that hate us?
or
- Should we just stand in the middle and get shot at?
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Heaven forbid but one of these three possibilities will likely be better than siding with Liberals who hate us. - Reply to this comment
- Hey pwrslm, you've already proved to everyone what a liar you are earlier, so what are you back here for now?
To spread some more of your distorted and not very factual lies?
You need two kinds of help - first, an education, secondly, some mental help.
You're one sick little hypocritical puppy. - Reply to this comment
- W
hy in Hell should Saddam Hussein be responsible of the massacre of 148 Iraqi people, while our incompetent Rummy should not be held responsible of the savage treatment and torture of the 9 Iraqi prisonners under American forces occupation?
Posted by grazinggoat at 01:46 AM : Mar 28, 2007
Because, sadly, many years ago our government passed a law making it illegal to sue a government employee for anything they were doing in performance of their job. This is one of the reasons military doctors do not need malpractice insurance. They can't be sued by military personal no matter how badly they screw up. If you're a service member or dependent and your doctor cuts the wrong leg off, too bad. Tough sh*it. You're out of luck.
Of course I'd b happy to pay for Rummy to go on a vacation to Germany where they have an indictment and arrest warrant pending against him for war crimes. ;-) Just in the interests of justice. - Reply to this comment
- CBS: Court Throws Out Rumsfeld Torture Case
Judge Says Former Defense Secretary%u2019s Government Position Shields Him From Being Sued
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/03/27/terror/main2617315.shtml
-Why in Hell should Saddam Hussein be responsible of the massacre of 148 Iraqi people, while our incompetent Rummy should not be held responsible of the savage treatment and torture of the 9 Iraqi prisonners under American forces occupation? - Reply to this comment
- Thank you as do you. Remember "Nothos nos permolere non sinimus" which loosely translated means don't let the bas*tards get you down.
;-) - Reply to this comment
RandalDS
Glad to see you on these boards setting them straight.
You do a good job.- Reply to this comment
- RandalDS
You are well spoken and well informed but you will never convince someone with his mental illness. I find that rather than simply stating the facts, asking questions that lead to the facts is more effective. It usually sends them running away as they can't answer without losing their grip on delusion.
Posted by micma at 01:03 AM : Mar 28, 2007
LOL! Loved the man boobs line. It's true that some of these fools from the right come on here and make wild claims without bothering to check into them. Once you present them with the facts they are flabbergasted. They can't understand why people don't just take them at their word since that's what they do when they're being spoon fed by the White House and FOX Noise. I know I can't change them, but it's still nice to kick the cr*ap (literally) out of one of them once in awhile. - Reply to this comment
RandalDS
He'll be back after he's suckled at Limbaugh's ample manboobs.- Reply to this comment
RandalDS
You are well spoken and well informed but you will never convince someone with his mental illness. I find that rather than simply stating the facts, asking questions that lead to the facts is more effective. It usually sends them running away as they can't answer without losing their grip on delusion.- Reply to this comment
- Who should we side with in Iraq's civil war?
Should we side with the Pro-Sadam Sunni extremists that hate us?
or
Should we side with the Pro-Iranian Shia extremists that hate us?
or
Should we just stand in the middle and get shot at?
Posted by micma at 12:51 AM : Mar 28, 2007
Well stated. As for pwrslm I think his mommy must have snuck down the basement stairs and told him to stop surfing for porn like the last time she caught him. By now he's probably safely in bed with his tail tucked firmly between his legs to ease the pain of the as*skicking he just got. lol! - Reply to this comment
pwrslm
How many lives and how much money should we spend in Iraq before we as American citizens have earned the right to expect some acountability from the Bush administration for what we are doing there and how it's going?
Should we just write him a blank check? Should we just send him our children and keep our mouths shut?- Reply to this comment
Who should we side with in Iraq's civil war?
Should we side with the Pro-Sadam Sunni extremists that hate us?
or
Should we side with the Pro-Iranian Shia extremists that hate us?
or
Should we just stand in the middle and get shot at?- Reply to this comment
- This has been a consistent number for a good while. 500,000 children died of dysentary in Iraq after Saddam used clean water facilities as propoganda against UN Sanctions (while he build palaces and disney style resorts for his friends complete with modern water/sewer facilities and solid gold spikets).
Or do you want to deny facts and play patsy?
Posted by pwrslm at 05:21 PM : Mar 27, 2007
This is your orginal claim word for word. It's horse sh*it. You, in effect, claim that there was some sort of one cause mass murder of young children by Saddam. This is sh*it and I proved it was. There is no evidence that this happened. The opnly evidence that 1/2 million children died pre-war was a UNICEF report that used statistics from the Iraqi government of Saddam.
Your credibility in this forum is gone. You are a liar. - Reply to this comment
pwrslm
How many failed Bush plans should Americans endure?- Reply to this comment
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