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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(CBS/AP)
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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 CommentsTheir sacrifice more and more is treated as a footnote. This is especially painful to witness for those of us have suffered the loss of a family member.
Hopefully all the loud and proud boastings regarding the improvement at Walter Reed Hospital will not be tossed into the background too.
Americans see nothing, hear nothing, do nothing. America is not at War. Our troops are at War. America is at the Mall. America is watching relaity TV. America is overworked, underpaid, while the rich are spending their massive tax cuts and complaining about liberals who don't have the "stomach for war" as Cheney likes to sneer and snarl (but their kids can afford tuition so they didn't have to volunteer for the Army).
If the coffins of all our troops were lined up end to end, they would stretch down the highway for 4 long miles. Think about it next time you drive to work. Watch the clock as you are going 60 miles per hour, rushing past all those coffins, and think about all the fatherless kids, the grieving families.
Think about the dead Iraqis - the end to end bodies (no coffins for most), would go on and on for a couple HUNDRED MILES. That is the legacy of our fascist WAR PRESIDENT - a murderous thug.
Fake WMDs, fake aluminum tubes, fake bio-mobile labs, fake Al Quaeda links to Saddam. Fake uranium from Niger ((so the SOBs out the covert CIA operative Valerie Plame who was working on non-proliferation, in retribution for her husbands telling the truth that Cheney/Bush LIED, DELIBERATELY LIED, what don't you understand??)). Fake intelignece "sources" like "curveball", fake NEI summaries. Bush Lies "War is our last resort". He called the Iraq resolution "a vote for peace".
Use our middleclass troops as Cannon Fodder for their imperial wars for oil and regional dominance.
CHOOSE ONE:
Support the Troops
OR
Support the horrific, needless Bush War on Iraq
YOU CANT SUPPORT BOTH.
Never mind that the voters sent them a very clear message in November, it is now completely forgotton...
Our troops -
Sitting ducks, due to a lame duck...
Get the soldiers home, leave the Halliburton mercenaries.
Saddam is dead, and everything else was a lie.
Posted by downtowner97 at 07:25 PM : Apr 01, 2007
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When I see Reporters on those streets in their normal clothing, I'll agree that things are getting better at that spot at that time. The problem with civil War is this is THEIR Country, THEIR home and if we are one place they will simply go visit Cousin Ahabe. LOL
SCHOOLS, HOMELESS AND QUIT GIVEING MONEY TO Foreign GOVERNMENTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST LIKE ISRAEL OR KUWAIT OR ANYWHERE UNTIL OUR KIDS DONT HAVE TO DO BAKE SALES AND CAR WASHES FOR BAND UNIFORMS AND EDUCATION COST!
We cannot trust our own government to tell us the truth and look out for our own National Well Being! But you well know that we cannot! Our government has diverted funds from Afghanistan and the hunt for bin laden to Iraq that did not attack us on 911 and are funding Sunni Al Qaeda in Lebanon to counter Shiite Hammas against Israel. While cutting programs that support the troops in the United States and Veterans affairs realms. American School Kids are having bake sales to get band uniforms while America sends millions of dollars to Israel and Arab states that are fighting each other. America is the Land of the Free Home of the Brave but our Politicians are bought by outside Governments and are performing Treasonous acts against US!
Posted by bbbbbfan at 07:07 AM : Apr 02, 2007
And just how good is YALE, bush went to school there. Is yale as good as BOECS?
And our congress will always be in a staelmate. And our supreme court will be a bunch of right wing a@holes. It's time we put some smart people to work for our country. We have think tanks. Look at Yale's Professor WALLERSTEIN'S WORLD-SYSTEM. He's renowned and certainly not Fred Kagan. He'd certainly advise us on how to get out of the mess and care about the citizens before the corporstion. And we wouldn't be at war.
And all this just to follow a delusional fool promising paradise while he walks in circles with nowhere to go.
CNN: "Car bombs and gunfire killed more than two dozen civilians and wounded more than 60 in attacks throughout Iraq on Saturday, officials said.
The attacks came as the Interior Ministry said that more than 1,800 Iraqi civilians died in sectarian and insurgent violence in Iraq in March. There were 226 more civilian deaths in March than in February, the data show."
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Hey moron. Were 1,000 people blown up, killed, tortured to death in that neighborhood in the last few months ?
I used to hang out at that forum, but the level of complete stupidity was driving me nuts.
However compelling the case for impeachment of Bush on Iraq and a host of other areas for gross incompetence, criminality and mendacious behavior, it is one thing to weather a storm of indignation from the American people-- with Bush approval ratings hoving around 36 percent-- and quite another to carry through impeachment proceedings on a party-line vote.
Of course, this is a triumph of partisanship over principle. The same partisanship, by the way, that the GOP loudly lamented after Sens. Graham and others failed to secure impeachment of Clinton. Now that they themselves are in the figurative dock, we find them strangely silent for Bush misdemeanors and high crimes whose aggregate far exceeds Clinton's misrepresentation to a federal grand jury.
With corruption and incompetence surfacing everywhere in the rotten ediface Bush built, it is a sad day when certain GOP members of our congress play partisan rear-guard for the dying Bush regime.
Nonetheless, this much is undeniable-- the best impeachment for Bush and members of his party who defend him is a sound defeat in the next election. If apathy, fear and ignorance nurtured and protected Bush, only diligent and continuous exposure will root him and his co-conspirators from our government.
So I ask myself, if someone were to start a giant wildfire and scores of firefighters died trying to put it down, who's responsible for their deaths?
Can the arsonist claim that he didn't kill these firefighters?
The Bush White House started a war deliberately under false pretexts and in the process thousands of innocent men and women paid with their lives.
Who's responsible, the men who killed them or the perpetrators who started this whole carnage?
Yes, it is a mass homicide, since Cheney and Bush Intentionally LIED to start this disaster WAR on Iraq.
Fake WMDs, fake Al Queada links to Saddam, fake aluminum tubes, fake bio-mobile labs.
Fake color coded terror alerts to keep is all afraid.
Fake patriotism by the "support the troops" people who are so willing to use the troops as cannon fodder, and give the maimed troops shoddy understaffed access to healthcare.
Fake yellowcake uranimum, fake mushroom clouds.
Fake "intelligence sources" like curveball - who the CIA knew was a flake and motivated to lie, but the "Office of Special Plans" was set up in the Dod by Cheney and his old NeoCon pal Rumsfeld to end-run the CIA and feed baby Bush the lies he wanted to hear.
And now we hear the Petroleum Law passed in Iraq. Surprise, surprise. The multinational Oil Companies with PROFITS of $100 Billion last year, will sit on (lead) the commission that decides how to manage Iraqi Oil. They will take 70 % of the PROFITS out of Iraq and into their Pockets (and some people thought this WAR wasn;t about oil!)
This is the biggest swindle, the biggest LIE, and yet the American people, baffled and confused by our corporate media, still do not DEMAND impeachment and trial for Cheney and Bush. And JAIL!
Incredible. When will the NeoCon nightmare end. When will the Democrats go a spine and act out with intergrity instead of watching the polls and playing it safe?
http://www.costofwar.com
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