3 GIs Killed In Baghdad Bridge Blast

Six Soldiers Wounded As Bomb Hits Bridge Checkpoint; Former Sunni Foes Asked For Help

(CBS/AP) 
At least 11 Iraqis were killed in attacks elsewhere on Monday, according to police officers, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they feared retribution.

Those included a roadside bombing against a police patrol in the northern Sunni city of Samarra that killed two commandos and wounded three. AP Television News footage showed youths cheering and stomping on bloodstains on the road while fires burned inside the charred vehicles.

In Baghdad, Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch, whose forces control the area of the checkpoint hit by the suicide blast, spoke at length about U.S. efforts to draw Sunnis into the security forces.

"There are tribal sheiks out there who say 'Hey, just allow me to be the local security force. I don't care what you call me. ... You can call me whatever you want. Just give me the right training and equipment and I'll secure my area.' And that's the direction we're moving out there," the Third Infantry Division commander said.

In a meeting with reporters, Lynch said contacts with the Sunnis, who make up the bulk of the insurgency, were a matter of pragmatism.

"They say: 'We hate you because you are an occupier, but we hate al Qaeda worse and we hate the Persians (Iranians) even worse' ... you can't ignore that whole population," Lynch said.

His division, he said, had lost 43 soldiers since the beginning of the U.S. troop surge on Feb. 14.

Meanwhile, U.S. helicopter dropped flares on a crowd in a square in eastern Baghdad Sunday, hours after clashes between American troops and Shiite militia that left at least five people dead. The military said the flares were fired automatically by the Apache helicopter's defense system — not the crew.

Fighting broke out in the predominantly Shiite Fidhiliyah area on the Baghdad's outskirts late Friday after a U.S. military convoy came under attack outside the local offices of Muqtada al-Sadr, the anti-American cleric whose Mahdi Army militia has recently stepped up attacks on American troops.

Spokesman Lt. Col. Christopher Garver said no Americans were killed or wounded, but he did not have immediate information on Iraqi casualties.

Sheikh Mohammed al-Hilfi, an al-Sadr representative from the office, said the clashes broke out after a raid on the office, which doubles as a mosque. The military did not confirm the raid.

He said seven people were killed and 21 wounded, while local police officials put the casualty figure at five killed and 19 wounded. The officials said those killed were Iraqis and included bystanders caught in the crossfire, while 16 other men were detained.

Hundreds of men chanted as they carried the wooden coffins draped in Iraqi flags of four people reportedly killed in the violence.

Associated Press Television video shot early Sunday showed a low-flying Apache helicopter firing flares as several hundred people, including teenagers and children, gathered around a destroyed U.S. Humvee.

[mh4cbs1]

tbweb says "Thats my impression" about Iran wanting War with the US.

Nicely stated! It IS your IMPRESSION, because you are so pathetically uninformed by our corporate media. You don't have factual information so you are led through the nose on feelings, fear, impression, slogans...

You probably thought Saddam had WMDs, just like "the rest of the world".

It is probably your impression that the "terrorists hate us for our freedom", and that "we must fight them over there so we don't have to fight them here".

Perhaps you were part of the 50% that thought Saddam was involved in 9-11.

It may be your impression that Bush and Cheney give a rats a** about Democracy. (really, friendly brutal dictators are much easier to work with).

It may be your impression that Bush/Cheney care about our troops, that they are worried the war is going badly -- when in fact they use our troops as cannon fodder for their pre-9/11 Iraq plans, and they are just fine with endless war and keeping the troops in Iraq "until the job is done".

When will people start doing their civic homework, wake up and JAIL these SOBs!

[mh4cbs1]

When you think about how Cheney/Bush:

LIED about WMDs, aluminum tubes, bio-mobile labs, mushroom clouds, niger yellowcake uranium

LIED about Saddam violating the UN 1441, to create the fig-leaf pretext for invasion (Saddam truthfully said he had no WMDs, Saddam DID let UN inspectors have free access to wherever they wanted)...

EXPLOITED 9-11, with fake Saddam links to Al Qaeda, fake color coded terror alerts to keep us all afraid...

INVADED a country that was NOT a threat, then builds 14 permanent military bases, a $500 Million US embassy, and claims we will need a military presence in Iraq for decades to come...

THREATENS Iraq Parliament to pass the Oil Law, giving US corporations access to Iraq's $21 Trillion oil reserves...

DECLARES "enemy combatants" and then throws them in solitary confinement without ANY trial, hearing, or due process...

Think about all that Cheney/Bush have done, and ask who they remind you more of, Thomas Jefferson or Adolf Hitler?

The answer of course is Adolf Hitler. Heil Bush!

[metalmaji]

When Bush says DEMOCRACY, he means WAR. When he says war on TERROR, he means war on ERROR. When he says WATER, he means BLOOD. When he says FREEDom, he means Greed. When he talks, he lies. When he helps someone, his intension is to get something back, like back them on wars. When he says Middle East, he means 'Middle East belongs to 'ME'.

[metalmaji]

Is it possible to attack three birds in one stone. (Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran). Still Bush hasn't got any legal evidence of 911. then why war on Afghanistan. Bush knew there were no WMD in Iraq, then why war on Iraq. Bush hasn't got any evidence of nukes in Iran, then why war in Iran. None of these countries are (or were) threats to America.

[tbweb]

If you look at the path Iran is on you can't help but come to the conclusion that sooner or later the U.S. will have to confront Iran. Iran is almost begging for a fight. The U.S. has a serious Naval Armada deployed off Iran's coast and Iran brazenly grabs British Sailors in the face of all that! Iran wants this war, not the U.S.. That's my impression and now Iran is detaining 4 U.S. Citizens almost it seems doing any and everthing to press the U.S.'s buttons! If the U.S. concludes it must confront Iran it may be better to do it before Iran has nuclear weapons. But Iran is not stupid, Iran is stupid like a fox and I think that for Iran to be this brazen Iran must already some way, some how have nuclear weapons, it must, Irans boldness makes no sense! Iran is no match for the U.S. Military so it must have some surprise up its sleeve and it has to nukes, it better be nukes for Irans sake and I think it is! Iran has nukes now!

[feelfree1]

Re: "3 GIs Killed In Baghdad Bridge Blast"

"With a thunderous rumble and cloud of dust and smoke, a suicide car bomb brought down a section of highway bridge south of Baghdad on Sunday"

This event happened yesterday, and was reported elsewhere, yesterday. This leaves the impression that helping Joe Lieberman to foment an illegal and suicidal attack against Iran, is higher on the CBS priority list, than three dead U.S. soldiers.

pwrslm wrote:

"No, you judged me out of your ignorance. You brought racism into it, thats ignorance, so, you might get off calling me moron, but you truely are a boy.

And a mental midget. You have been out classed, out argued, and out maneuvered every step of the way, and you still have not figured it out.

That, my boy, is truely ignorant."

lol - that from someone who has been calling me a "boy".

I guess that makes you a sexist pig.

By the way, I never said anything about your skin color - I was commenting on the fact that you repeatedly kept calling me "boy" - something that I attribute to southern redneck morons.

Your opinion is of no concern to me - I still think you're a pathetic piece of cowardly cr@p, who is to chicken to answer a few questions.

Here they are again for you:

So tell us - are you happy with GW Bush's plans?

Do you think his plans are working?

How many more dead Americans will it take for you to realize that GW Bush has no plan other then the "same ol', same ol'"?

By the way, I bet you can't tell me the color of my skin.

Moron.

[pwrslm]

"A mind conscious of innocence laughs at the lies of rumor"


Will Rogers

[pwrslm]

I've judged you not on your skin, but by your own words - boy.

Moron.
Posted by mcdazz

No, you judged me out of your ignorance. You brought racism into it, thats ignorance, so, you might get off calling me moron, but you truely are a boy.

And a mental midget. You have been out classed, out argued, and out maneuvered every step of the way, and you still have not figured it out.

That, my boy, is truely ignorant.

pwrslm wrote:

"To show your ignorance, as if its not already been agreed, the Klan is a white supremacist organization, akin to the aryan brotherhood, of which, my poor boy, I am by the Grace by God excluded from.

Those white boys dont want nothin to do wit me, in other words.

Its pretty ignorant of you to reduce you call to that level. It only reinforces what I have been saying all along, you have no credence. Your moraly bankrupt."

From a moron who keeps calling me "boy", despite never having met me.

I'm nobody's "boy", especially not yours, you ignorant moron.

Now, answer the questions instead of avoiding them. Or perhaps the truth is too hard for you to handle?

Here they are again:

So tell us - are you happy with GW Bush's plans?

Do you think his plans are working?

How many more dead Americans will it take for you to realize that GW Bush has no plan other then the "same ol', same ol'"?

By the way, are you incredibly stupid or just a moron?

How do you think I would be able to tell the color of your skin over the internet?

I've judged you not on your skin, but by your own words - boy.

Moron.

[pwrslm]

pwrslm:

Answer the questions and stop thinking about your next Klan meetin', boy.
Posted by mcdazz

What, you think your special? You still have not linked to any credible source for your bogus BS.

You expect from me what you yourself refuse? What a crock your are.

Now you know what I mean when I call you boy. Its because you "are" a boy. Its in the way you act, your characture is that of a boy.

Pretty simple, though truely, offensive to us all.

[pwrslm]

pwrslm:

Answer the questions and stop thinking about your next Klan meetin', boy.
Posted by mcdazz

To show your ignorance, as if its not already been agreed, the Klan is a white supremacist organization, akin to the aryan brotherhood, of which, my poor boy, I am by the Grace by God excluded from.

Those white boys dont want nothin to do wit me, in other words.



Its pretty ignorant of you to reduce you call to that level. It only reinforces what I have been saying all along, you have no credence. Your moraly bankrupt.

pwrslm wrote:

"There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart; never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; and never to tell that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening while you tell it."

Cut the cr@p, boy.

Answer the questions and stop thinking about your next Klan meetin', boy.

So tell us - are you happy with GW Bush's plans?

Do you think his plans are working?

How many more dead Americans will it take for you to realize that GW Bush has no plan other then the "same ol', same ol'"?

[idlepugilist]

Geez, neighbors, some of you seem to think your problem is with your neighbor, when it originates in Washington. It's time to change your posture and stop calling others posting here "stupid", "liars", etc.
The government reports 3509 American soldiers dead in the Iraq War to date; this doesn't even touch the staggering statistics on the wounded.
Our highly trained soldiers are sent on repeated, extended tours to chapperone the ICW (Iraq Civil War), and this draws just enough terrorists from outside and inside Iraq to make this War a spectacle of bewilderment. Hey, George can play with fear regarding WMD, so I can use ICW to shed truth on this debacle.
Our President cannot come up with a plan to win a war against terrorists in Iraq because terrorism doesn't originate in Iraq. On the positive side, our soldiers cannot lose; winning is a feat that is physically impossible while a majority of resources are tied up at the ICW. WOW, what a novel idea; something he could've acknowledged around the time he was spewing Mission Accomplished.

[pwrslm]

There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart; never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; and never to tell that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening while you tell it.

Henry Van *** 1852--1933

pwrslm:

Answer the questions and stop thinking about your next Klan meetin', boy.

pwrslm wrote:

"I already know your a liar, so all the double talk and BS you spew only amounts to one thing.

The only good your doing here is to puff up your pathetic ego, which is also useless..your such a loser."

lol - coming from a "boy" who has repeatedly had his "facts" proven to be based on lies over the past few months.

So, how about answering my questions, boy?

So tell us - are you happy with GW Bush's plans?

Do you think his plans are working?

How many more dead Americans will it take for you to realize that GW Bush has no plan other then the "same ol', same ol'"?

Answer the questions, boy.

[pwrslm]

By the way, I hate liars as well - and that's why I hate GW Bush and most Republicanazis (along with a few Dems).

Posted by mcdazz

Ya, but your so screwed up, you dont even know what the lie is, so it really doesnt matter what your thinking about Bush or anyone else.

Without the truth, in hand, and a forward movement to solve the problem, nothing posted on these boards have any meaning, its nothing but politicalized juvenile rants by immature mentalities who cant grasp reality.

Just like whitman.

pwrslm wrote:

"Read it just fine. It dont say what you posted boy. So that makes you a lyin pond scum suckin POS. And by the way, the shoe fits, thats why I call ya boy. You dont have what it takes to be a man and uphold the truth.

(redneck? No Im just a man, unlike you, who hate liars.)"

lol - you're a incestuous, inbred redneck through and through, boy.

When's your next Klan meeting, boy?

Anyway, back to the topic:

If you read GW Bush's policy, then why did you even need to ask?

Are you that stupid?

Did you see the part where I said:

"From what I can see, GW Bush's plans are as follows:"

Apparently you are that stupid.

By the way, I hate liars as well - and that's why I hate GW Bush and most Republicanazis (along with a few Dems).

[bearalumni]

I'm an advisor for an Iraqi army battalion and I eat and sleep with these folks. One thing I've learn about Iraqi's is nothing is certain. One day they are on your side and the next they are not. So my guess is that next month, these folks we think are on our side will be blowing us up or maybe in their spare time because we are second on their hate list.
The funny thing is our military leaders here will fail to mention that in the press. So watch the news.