BAGHDAD, April 1, 2007
Six More U.S. Soldiers Killed In Iraq
Roadside Bombings Claim Two GIs On Saturday, Four On Sunday
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Two of the soldiers were killed Saturday, four others died Sunday in what appeared to be coordinated attacks.
The military said the four soldiers died as they where responding to the first explosion which killed two, indicating the attacks took places in the last minutes of Saturday and shortly after midnight on Sunday.
The names of the soldiers were not given and the military did not give an exact location of the attacks, saying only that they occurred southwest of the capital.
A Marine serving in Anbar province also died Sunday in a "non-combat related incident," the military said in a second statement.
According to the AP count 3,253 U.S. service members have died in Iraq since the war began in March 2003.
More than 600 Iraqis have been killed in sectarian violence since March 25, most in a series of high-profile suicide bombings. Among them were at least 152 people killed in a suicide truck bombing in Tal Afar — the deadliest single strike since the war began four years ago. Shiites, including police, went on a revenge shooting rampage afterward, killing at least 45 Sunni men.
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See all 92 CommentsIgnore the facts, things are really getting better in Iraq! Close your eyes, plug your ears, and let's all chant; Things are getting better, we are winning, the insurgency is in its last throes.
Although if you are still plagued by the facts, try taking some really powerful drugs and focus really hard on believing Bush and McCain. Come on people you are not trying very hard! Support the President, Support the Troops, Support endless wars for no reason. Be a good American! Hail Bush! With faith and a few little pills we can all overcome reality! Come on let's all chant together!
Your analogy s*ucks for many reasons.
That was a justified war. This one is foolish and stupid.
WW2 was fought all across the globe. And 278 a day were NOT killed in a specific theatre of war over 4-5 years: that did NOT happen in WW2.
Otherwise America would have lost 300,000 men at Guadalcanal alone.
Are you sure you didn't inhale ?
I think Senator John McCain should make a personal visit there to see if that's true.
A nice unescorted walk through that area by McCain would demonstrate to the insurgents that they can't scare Americans.
With any luck he'll be greeted as a liberator.
Only a justifiable war can make justifiable progress.
The media and the Democrats got behind Bush the Elder when he took Noriega down in Panama. Hell, John Kerry was the elder Bush's chief cheerleader for that one. And there were American casualties in that one.
They did it because they knew that Manuel Noriega's downfall was in America's interest.
Iraq at this point is not, if it ever was.
I this is true the logical next step militarily wou0ld be to not let up and keep the terrorists on the run. Follow them int o tehse new areas and chase tehm out. If they are contained to more and more ural areas, our enemy may be contained to having a less and less significant role in Iraq.
Examples of similar tactics being succesful:
Chile--jungle terrorists
Afghanistan--Taliban
Soviet Russia--Siberiean insurgents
American SouthWest--(Apache wars)
A moderately stable Iraq coulds mean we could go home
Bush the Elder liberating Panama from Noriega. A true Mission Accomplished, well planned in advance, over in about one month, with minimal US casualties and a strong local government in control in Panama afterwards. Bush the Elder soared in popularity afterwards.
Bush the Younger toppling Saddam in Iraq - more like a reckless schoolkid knocking over a hornets' nest. Going into the fifth year of chaos, bloodshed and anarchy. If Bush the Younger falls any further in the polls, he'll be down there with Benedict Arnold.
Get out! Get out! Get the f**k out of Iraq! And let's concentrate on bringing our domestic enemies of the Bush regime, along with their collaborators, to account for their heinous deeds.
www.ipetitions.com/petition/OutNow
How's it going in Iraq?
Here is a good description from a courageous Iraqi woman, who posts under the screen-nick "Riverbend":
"Let me clear it up for any moron with lingering doubts: It%u2019s worse. It%u2019s over. You lost. You lost the day your tanks rolled into Baghdad to the cheers of your imported, American-trained monkeys. You lost every single family whose home your soldiers violated. You lost every sane, red-blooded Iraqi when the Abu Ghraib pictures came out and verified your atrocities behind prison walls as well as the ones we see in our streets. You lost when you brought murderers, looters, gangsters and militia heads to power and hailed them as Iraq%u2019s first democratic government. You lost when a gruesome execution was dubbed your biggest accomplishment. You lost the respect and reputation you once had. You lost more than 3000 troops. That is what you lost America. I hope the oil, at least, made it worthwhile."
Chile--jungle terrorists..."
emtak1
The fact that Chile really doesn't have any jungles may have had a lot to do with that success.
http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com
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Fortunately, many of our bravest and wisest soldiers are refusing to participate in the criminal crusades of the illegitimate Bush puppet-Fuhrer, even accepting prison time, rather than be an accessory to the illegitimate Bush Butchers.
www.couragetoresist.org
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GodfuxBu$h!!!
I too have long suspected that reckless Dubya couldn't really be the biological son of the sober and prudent George H. W. Bush.
But who is his real father ?
Only Barbara knows for sure, but I wouldn't be surprised if his real father turned out to be some reckless, James Dean type. (Not James Dean himself -- he would have been too young.)
But who is his real father ?
I bet it was one of the Three Stooges.
Chile--jungle terrorists
Afghanistan--Taliban
Soviet Russia--Siberiean insurgents
American SouthWest--(Apache wars)
A moderately stable Iraq coulds mean we could go home" Posted by emtak1
Reports of success over the Taliban in Afghanistan have been greatly exaggerated.
Never heard of those Siberian insurgents. What were the authorities going to do with them ? Send them to Siberia ?
There were at that time maybe 10,000 souls in the entire Apache nation. If there had been 20 million Apaches, the war might still be going on today. (And John McCain would be seeing many "hopeful signs"...)
And -- oh yeah, did I mention there are no jungles in Chile ?
But who is [Bush's] real father ?
I bet it was one of the Three Stooges."
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Please don't defame the Three Stooges like that.
It's going according to the Commander-in-Chief's prediction.
"There will be good days and bad days in Iraq" - G W Bush
Many top Nazi leaders were sentenced and hung at Nuremberg, for committing offenses that are remarkably similar to those of the Bush regime.
Thankfully, the U.S. is signatory to the Nurembeerg Charter.
The whole world will celebrate when these Exxon-Mobile powered fascists are finally brought to justice. The noose is tightening.
Posted by feelfree1 at 05:44 PM : Apr 01, 2007
You forget that Bush has a 100,000 acre ranch in Paraguay which has no extradition treaty with the US regarding war criminals.
In other words, the way it was before the U.S. invasion in 2003.
It's working. Don't let anyone else tell you differently.
In fact, it's working so well that's why they needed to be so heavily guarded - to protect the insurgents from the politicians.
Chile--jungle terrorists
Afghanistan--Taliban
Soviet Russia--Siberiean insurgents
American SouthWest--(Apache wars)
Posted by Iceman_1960 at 05:30 PM : Apr 01, 2007
Better examples of it NOT being successful:
Colombia - 40 years
The Phillipines - 40 years
Guatemala - 36 years
US in Viet Nam - 12 years
USSR in Afghanistan - 12 years
I posted to counter them.
Re: "You forget that Bush has a 100,000 acre ranch in Paraguay which has no extradition treaty with the US regarding war criminals."
In that case, we may have to 'smoke em out..get em runnin'...
I knew that Chile was basically coastline and mountains with no jungles to speak of.
As for those Siberian insurgents -- isn't Siberia the last place on earth anybody would be fighting over ?
I posted to counter them.
Posted by Iceman_1960 at 05:51 PM : Apr 01, 2007
Sorry Iceman, I mis-read you. My bad.
I posted to counter them.
Posted by Iceman_1960 at 05:51 PM : Apr 01, 2007
Sorry Iceman, I mis-read you. My bad.
Posted by formrusmcsgt
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Thanks, formrusmcsgt. No problem.
(Now drop down and give me 50 pushups)
Posted by mcdazz at 05:48 PM : Apr 01, 2007
I find it laughable that the administration crows about "success" yet our officials, after fours years of fighting in Iraq, still have to sneak in and out of Iraq on unnanounced trips like terrorists...
This has been misreported in the media.
McCain is being stalked by Paris Hilton.
Posted by Iceman_1960 at 05:59 PM : Apr 01, 2007
Just gave you 100.
I think Senator John McCain should make a personal visit there to see if that's true.
A nice unescorted walk through that area by McCain would demonstrate to the insurgents that they can't scare Americans.
With any luck he'll be greeted as a liberator.
Posted by Iceman_1960 at 04:56 PM : Apr 01, 2007
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To Use a phrase coined during the last mission to bring our people home...
RIGHT ON ICEMAN
Now you're talking. Drive the Iraqi insurgents into the Ural Mountains. Let Putin sort 'em out.
(It's so immature to jump all over typos, I know...)
The Iraqis have every right to defend themselves against the invaders and collaborators in their country.
What's more, they have managed to significantly stall the corporate crusade of the Bush puppet-Fuhrer (heil), and we can all be thankful for that.
Now I owe emtak1 some pushups. There really was a war like that -- but it took Spain, and later, Chile, 300 years to overcome it.
A 300 year war is perhaps not the best example for Bush to follow in Iraq.
The "Arauco War"
Link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arauco_War
6 more Americans dead! It's working where? Point out where it's working! Define working! Sick!
"This has been misreported in the media.
McCain is being stalked by Paris Hilton."
lol
Damned liberal media is just trying to make George Bush look bad.
Of course, it is impossible to do otherwise, George Bush is the worst president in US history.
In Iraq or Los Angeles ?
"I find it laughable that the administration crows about "success" yet our officials, after fours years of fighting in Iraq, still have to sneak in and out of Iraq on unnanounced trips like terrorists..."
I couldn't agree more.
The true mark of "success" will be when the President of the United States can travel to Iraq with advance warning and without an army as a bodyguard.
Until then, I will not believe the lies of Generals and Politicians.
As someone else has pointed out, when the crackdown in Baghdad was announced, the insurgents either went underground or moved out of the city into other areas.
Posted by tuckerndfw at 07:02 PM : Apr 01, 2007
--tuckerndfw
Iraqi kids going back to school, now that is good news. I really truly feel sorry for the long term war scars on those Iraqi kids. But instead of feeling sorry for them and trying to help them the world is focused on that dumb bear Knut in the German Zoo! Talk about mixed up priorities!
In Iraq or Los Angeles ?
Posted by Iceman_1960 at 07:10 PM : Apr 01, 2007
Little Rock, AR; Selma, AL; and Boston, MA are just a few places US forces escorted school kids.
There are lots of similarities between the people who were trying to kill them in the 50's, 60's, and 70's in the US and those trying to kill them today in Iraq.
Both groups are (were) led by religious fundamentalists who want to sacrifice children to please their imaginary Gods.
BTW, US forces don't have the manpower or equipment to maintain order in Los Angeles.
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