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
- 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.
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? - Reply to this comment
- It never fails. Every time I see or hear about the tragedy of this and hear of the remorseless Bush I wonder why he and his family aren't the one's being buried there. I don't wish that on anyone but just can't help it. He along with Fredrick Kagan of AEI the Surger, AIPAC and the neocons should be orbiting KRYPTON in a galaxy far far away. This country needs fundamental reforms so that dictators and fascists can never again come to power. And when and if the democrats do come to power all they'll do is add taxes to the middle class. There still won't be funding for r&d for universities. The military budget will continue to grow. Poor people will get poorer. Society will continue its downward spiral. It's because our brand of capitalism is obsolete. Countries like Norway, that care about their people seem to know how to run a democracy where greed is not king.
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. - Reply to this comment
- I wonder how much pleasure and inspirations we have deprived ourselves by the losses of so many Americans in such a useless war? How much music have we lost? How many inventions and discoveries we'll never see in our lifetime?
And all this just to follow a delusional fool promising paradise while he walks in circles with nowhere to go. - Reply to this comment
- I would love to wake up and see that the war has been resolved but it dosen't seem that is going to happen anytime soon.We need to hand the country back to these people, they will as soon as we do leave, go back to the way they were before we ever went over there.The middle east has been at war with each other since they began throwing rocks at one another back when Iraq had the first known city ever in the world.What makes everyone think they will change?
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- Bay View/Hunter's Point never had it so "good":
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." - Reply to this comment
- A right wing kneejerk on the McLaughlin forums named "ReForged" opined... "I suppose you're saying that because Iraq is still not safe enough to traverse without an armed escort that the operation has been a complete failure. Now, let me add my twist to your point: Do me a favor, next time you're in town here in the Bay Area.....take a stroll through some of the neighborhoods in the Bay View/Hunter's Point district after dark. Should we pull out any police presence from that district because it's unsafe to traverse?"
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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. - Reply to this comment
- Most Americans would agree that lying to congress about a matter as serious as war is manifest grounds for impeachment. This is a species of the "high crimes and misdemeanors" mentioned in the Constitution.
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. - Reply to this comment
- Someone once said on this forum that Bush is not doing the killing, it's the insurgents, the terrorists who are killing our young men and women.
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? - Reply to this comment
- WANTED FOR MASS MURDER: BUSH and CHENEY
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? - Reply to this comment
- Sorry- that link was a redirect from this one (which will work for you)
http://www.costofwar.com - Reply to this comment
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