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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- tblackbeltki--my heart goes out to you....I am the wife a 10th MTN DIV soldier serving in Iraq, the same DIV as your nephew! The pain your family must be feeling!!! I AM SO SORRY!
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- Gone are the days when daily reports on the troops progress and the "number of soldiers killed today is..." LED OFF the news as was the media practice during Vietnam. Their returning, flag-draped caskets were not hidden from view.
Their 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. - Reply to this comment
- Anyone see any combat footage from this WAR on the evening news? Of course not, this is a sanitized war.
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. - Reply to this comment
- JAIL CHENEY and BUSH for their Mass Manslaughter.
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. - Reply to this comment
- IT WAS MY NEPHEW THAT WAS ONE OF THE SIX KILLED. HE WAS ONLY 23. HAD ONLY BEEN MARRIED FOR LESS THAN TWO YEARS. MY COMMENT IS LETS SEND ALL THE BUSHS CHILDREN OVER THERE.
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- Anyone else notice how the troop deaths have meandered off the front pages and onto the bottom of the news nowdays? Guess Bu$hCo is trying to get a little more out of the Treasury for the Halliburton Gang.
Never mind that the voters sent them a very clear message in November, it is now completely forgotton... - Reply to this comment
- When the Bu$h media tries to dignify his oil invasion by calling it a war, I just get disgusted. This administration bullied their way into this little country by lying to the US Congress and the world. They will stay until all the oil is theirs, no matter what the US voters say or do. Republicon greed is the only factor they consider in any decision.
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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.- Reply to this comment
- Put a thousand troops and thier tanks and guns on a street and see things get quiet? That's not progress, that's a staged scene like Bush standing on an aircraft carrier deck in a flight suit.
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 - Reply to this comment
- SUPPORT AMERICAN FIRST
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! - Reply to this comment
