U.S. F-16 Crashes In Iraq

No Word On State Of Pilot; 5 U.S. Troops Die; Gates Visits Baghdad

(CBS/AP)  A U.S. Air Force F-16 fighter jet crashed Friday during a close air support mission for ground forces in Iraq, the Central Air Command reported. The U.S. military also announced that five more soldiers had died.

The Air Force announcement, which referred to the 12:27 a.m. crash as an accident, did not say where it occurred or what happened to the pilot, the single crew member.

The loss of an F-16, a workhorse warplane in the Iraq war, is a rare event. One crashed last Nov. 27 in the western province of Anbar, killing the pilot.

The jet was deployed to the 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing at Balad Air Base, 50 miles north of Baghdad.

"The cause of the accident is under investigation," said the statement from the Central Command Air Forces, which provided no further details.

In other developments:

Police said bombers posing as television cameramen destroyed an important Sunni shrine in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, and Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ordered an indefinite curfew in the city. Photographs of the Sunni Talha Bin al-Zubair shrine, 13 miles outside Basra, showed the that the big structure was leveled, a result that would have required huge amounts of explosives — more than even several men could have carried into the mosque concealed in television equipment bags.

In Tehran, Iran's supreme leader accused the U.S.-led forces in Iraq of plotting and extremist Sunni groups of carrying out the Wednesday attack on the al-Askariya shrine in Samarra, saying it was designed to provoke civil war in Iraq.

Insurgents linked to al Qaeda released a videotape showing the execution-style deaths of 14 Iraqi soldiers and policemen after the expiration of a 72-hour deadline for the Iraqi government to meet their demands to release all Iraqi female prisoners.

NATO defense ministers agreed Friday to widen the alliance training mission for Iraq's security forces to include instruction for paramilitary police units as well as the military. The ministers responded to a request from the Iraqi government "to provide gendarmerie training to complement the military training," said NATO spokesman James Appathurai.

The remains of a Brazilian engineer who was kidnapped in Iraq in 2005 have been found and positively identified, the Brazilian foreign ministry said Thursday. The remains of engineer Joao Jose Vasconcellos were identified by forensic experts in Kuwait with support from Brazilian embassy personnel, the ministry said in a statement. It did not say when or where the remains were found, which arrived Thursday in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates arrived in Baghdad on an unannounced visit Friday.

Gates told reporters the military wasn't trying to paint an overly optimistic picture of how the war is going.

"It's a very mixed picture," he said when asked whether the military and commanding Gen. David Petraeus were offering realistic assessments of the violence in Baghdad. Since Feb. 14, the military has sent nearly 30,000 more soldiers to Iraq, most of them to Baghdad.

"I have every confidence in General Petraeus and in his ability and willingness to call it as he sees it," Gates said.

Three of the U.S. soldiers, whose deaths were announced Friday by the military, died when a bomb exploded near their vehicle Thursday during operations in Kirkuk province, in northern Iraq. Another soldier was wounded in the blast.

A fourth soldier was killed by small arms fire the same day in Diyala province, northeast of Baghdad. And another soldier died Wednesday in a non-combat related incident, which the military said it was investigating.

All were assigned to Task Force Lightning, and their names were withheld pending family notification.

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by peacethinker-2009 June 16, 2007 1:54 AM EDT

All religion is stupid and unnecessary. It's for the weak and ignorant. Islam is the worst by far.

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by winnerindia June 16, 2007 12:50 AM EDT

"i know this though: religion, any religion, christian, jew, muslim, hindu- all of them create separations between human beings and give us excuses to act irrationally. All f***ing religion must f***ing end. That I'll stand by.
Posted by deadjester1 at 05:56 PM : Jun 15, 2007 "

I am also with the same opinion. Religions provide many excuses to the people for snatching rights of the others and killing others in the name of religion. Now, for how many times and when will the people come to realise that religion has become the most dangerous game.

______________________________________

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by mh4cbs1 June 16, 2007 12:24 AM EDT

Read this article! Outstanding summary of how we were LIED into Iraq by these NeoCon fascist SOBs.

http://www.commondreams.org/arc
hive/2007/06/15/1896/

Get your head out of the sand, get informed. Then impeach and JAIL Cheney and Bush for their Crimes, and vote the slimey spineless and complicit Democrats OUT of Congress.

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by nothappyatall June 16, 2007 12:15 AM EDT

LOL they are going to blast each others shrines!!!
This is better than the movies and we have a front row seat, I only wish the xtians and some other group would do the same here- just blast each other's holy worship spaces into the ground.

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by patriotic9 June 15, 2007 10:24 PM EDT

5 more dead today, 6 if they don't find the pilot. It's not worth it and it never was. Enough is enough!
Posted by RandalDS at 06:42 PM : Jun 15, 2007

This war is worth fighting for CHENEY's Halliburton.

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by randalds June 15, 2007 9:42 PM EDT

5 more dead today, 6 if they don't find the pilot. It's not worth it and it never was. Enough is enough!

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by forthepeopl1 June 15, 2007 9:18 PM EDT

THIS IS AMERICA'S ACCOUNTABILITY OVERSITE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


nJULY 21 2007 IS WHEN AMERICANS WILL BE FREE AGAIN

EVERYONE THAT WANTS TO HELP WITH THIS SHOULD BE TALKING TO ALL MEDIA OUTLETS AND TELLING THEM THAT AMERICANS ARE READY TO TAKE WASHINGTON ON AND ITS NOT A FEW AMERICANS ITMILLIONS OF AMERICANS THAT WILL TAKE BACK THERE COUNTRY..

I AM WILLING TO GIVE MY BLOOD FOR ALL AMERICANS TO GET OUR COUNTRY BACK TO WHAT OUR FORFATHERS WANTED.

AM A VET AND AM READY TO TAKE CHARGE OF THIS AMERICAN BOYCOT/COOP IF WE THE PEOPLE DONT DO THIS NOW WE WILL BE GIVENING UP ON OUR CONSTITUTION AND WHAT ALL OUR VET HAVE DIED FOR..

DAVID A BELANGER,VET US ARMY,[e-mail]

ok so wants to join in on this great american REVOLUTION


they cant kill millions of americans at once so if we charge them all at once we will win and take them out and hang them all..

just like in the old days of the west...hang them from the trees in front of the whitehouse and see how many start telling the truth about what they have done to all us americans..


its time to take all this *** and take our government back now..

they are the ones that started this and we will finnish it now..we the people will take our country back and everyone in washington can sit there and thinks we the people are ok with what they are doing..go ahead and let them think that we are comming to take them out

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by deadjester1 June 15, 2007 8:56 PM EDT

hey hows this for pc...

all f***ing muslims should f***ing hang.

solves our problems. until the next issue comes up. then what? there will always be wars, there will always be a murder rate. man is meant to kill his fellow man. we're really not that far removed from our ancestors in terms of civilized accountability for our actions.

i know this though: religion, any religion, christian, jew, muslim, hindu- all of them create separations between human beings and give us excuses to act irrationally. All f***ing religion must f***ing end. That I'll stand by.

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by deadjester1 June 15, 2007 8:56 PM EDT

hey hows this for pc...

all f***ing muslims should f***ing hang.

solves our problems. until the next issue comes up. then what? there will always be wars, there will always be a murder rate. man is meant to kill his fellow man. we're really not that far removed from our ancestors in terms of civilized accountability for our actions.

i know this though: religion, any religion, christian, jew, muslim, hindu- all of them create separations between human beings and give us excuses to act irrationally. All f***ing religion must f***ing end. That I'll stand by.

Reply to this comment

by forthepeopl1 June 15, 2007 8:26 PM EDT

THIS IS AMERICA'S ACCOUNTABILITY OVERSITE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


nJULY 21 2007 IS WHEN AMERICANS WILL BE FREE AGAIN

EVERYONE THAT WANTS TO HELP WITH THIS SHOULD BE TALKING TO ALL MEDIA OUTLETS AND TELLING THEM THAT AMERICANS ARE READY TO TAKE WASHINGTON ON AND ITS NOT A FEW AMERICANS ITMILLIONS OF AMERICANS THAT WILL TAKE BACK THERE COUNTRY..

I AM WILLING TO GIVE MY BLOOD FOR ALL AMERICANS TO GET OUR COUNTRY BACK TO WHAT OUR FORFATHERS WANTED.

AM A VET AND AM READY TO TAKE CHARGE OF THIS AMERICAN BOYCOT/COOP IF WE THE PEOPLE DONT DO THIS NOW WE WILL BE GIVENING UP ON OUR CONSTITUTION AND WHAT ALL OUR VET HAVE DIED FOR..

DAVID A BELANGER,VET US ARMY,[e-mail]

ok so wants to join in on this great american REVOLUTION


they cant kill millions of americans at once so if we charge them all at once we will win and take them out and hang them all..

just like in the old days of the west...hang them from the trees in front of the whitehouse and see how many start telling the truth about what they have done to all us americans..


its time to take all this *** and take our government back now..

they are the ones that started this and we will finnish it now..we the people will take our country back and everyone in washington can sit there and thinks we the people are ok with what they are doing..go ahead and let them think that we are comming to take them out

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by feelfree1 June 15, 2007 8:24 PM EDT

notblue,

Re: "How much blood and treasure are willing to be destroyed by the militants until the fighting back is justified. If one was to accept your philosophy of pascifism at all costs, there would be no treasurs or blood left only Allah and his followers."

I can't imagine why you might think that your baseless spewage is relevant to this thread.

I have not laid out any philosophy here.

There is no doubt, however, that the people of Iraq have every right to defend themselves against the brutal and illegal invasion of their country, against collaborators, against privatized Blackwater, Dynecorp, and Wackenhut terrorists for rent, and against make believe 'al-CIA'da-in-Iraq' psy-ops nonsense.

There are no Iraqi terrorists in Iraq, and anyone in a similar situation as the Iraqi people, with any integrity, would resist complicity in such a disgraceful debacle.

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by johnshaft4 June 15, 2007 8:22 PM EDT

notblue- You are confused as usual. It was the Jews, not the Muslims that killed your Jesus.
So kill all of the jews while you are exterminating the Muslims. Go, get 'em tiger.

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by tejasdemo June 15, 2007 8:22 PM EDT

Another great day spreadin democracy around the globe. I mean aint it just great ? Oh, except for all the dead people, but other than that great job !

Go to hell Bush and Cheney

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by notblue June 15, 2007 8:11 PM EDT

FeelFree1, How much blood and treasure are willing to be destroyed by the militants until the fighting back is justified. If one was to accept your philosophy of pascifism at all costs, there would be no treasurs or blood left only Allah and his followers.

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by feelfree1 June 15, 2007 8:07 PM EDT

notblue,

You are very generous, with the blood and treasure of others.

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by notblue June 15, 2007 8:05 PM EDT

JohnShaft4, retreat! retreat! retreat! the radicals are cheering for you. Do not fight back under any circumstances! If only the radical militants would just stop and take a timeout then we could all live happily ever after in your fairtale koombiya world! Too funny! What makes you think these militants you trivialize will ever quit there Jihad? Appeasent and complacency over the last thirties hasn't worked. We have only been fighting back for the last four so according to you it's high time we just give up. Great plan I'm sire it will work! LOL

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by forthepeopl1 June 15, 2007 7:53 PM EDT

THIS IS AMERICA'S ACCOUNTABILITY OVERSITE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


nJULY 21 2007 IS WHEN AMERICANS WILL BE FREE AGAIN

EVERYONE THAT WANTS TO HELP WITH THIS SHOULD BE TALKING TO ALL MEDIA OUTLETS AND TELLING THEM THAT AMERICANS ARE READY TO TAKE WASHINGTON ON AND ITS NOT A FEW AMERICANS ITMILLIONS OF AMERICANS THAT WILL TAKE BACK THERE COUNTRY..

I AM WILLING TO GIVE MY BLOOD FOR ALL AMERICANS TO GET OUR COUNTRY BACK TO WHAT OUR FORFATHERS WANTED.

AM A VET AND AM READY TO TAKE CHARGE OF THIS AMERICAN BOYCOT/COOP IF WE THE PEOPLE DONT DO THIS NOW WE WILL BE GIVENING UP ON OUR CONSTITUTION AND WHAT ALL OUR VET HAVE DIED FOR..

DAVID A BELANGER,VET US ARMY,[e-mail]

ok so wants to join in on this great american REVOLUTION


they cant kill millions of americans at once so if we charge them all at once we will win and take them out and hang them all..

just like in the old days of the west...hang them from the trees in front of the whitehouse and see how many start telling the truth about what they have done to all us americans..


its time to take all this *** and take our government back now..

they are the ones that started this and we will finnish it now..we the people will take our country back and everyone in washington can sit there and thinks we the people are ok with what they are doing..go ahead and let them think that we are comming to take them out

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by johnshaft4 June 15, 2007 7:42 PM EDT

notblue- Get your tail over there (along with your fellow Christian Soldiers) and kill all of them evildoer, Jesus hating, black rock/moon god loving Muslims. Hurry, hurry our freedoms and very way of life are dependent upon you. kill, kill, kill...go get 'em or god will call you home.

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by notblue June 15, 2007 7:38 PM EDT

Radical Islam has been bolstered since Bush has been in office because he is actually fighting the barbarians unlike previous administrations, according to the logic of the Bush haters not fighting is the only thing that will appease the radicals, there's a plan that the terrorists love! Anyone who truly believes the militants didn't have a cause prior to Bush being president refuse to look at the truth of histroy and all the attacks carried out by the radicals over the last three decades.

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by feelfree1 June 15, 2007 7:23 PM EDT

Dear CBS Web Editors,

Re: "U.S. F-16 Crashes In Iraq"

Could you please explain why 5 dead U.S. soldiers and a downed U.S. fighter jet, is considered less important than a free add for a diet pill?

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[peacethinker-2009]

All religion is stupid and unnecessary. It's for the weak and ignorant. Islam is the worst by far.

[winnerindia]

"i know this though: religion, any religion, christian, jew, muslim, hindu- all of them create separations between human beings and give us excuses to act irrationally. All f***ing religion must f***ing end. That I'll stand by.
Posted by deadjester1 at 05:56 PM : Jun 15, 2007 "

I am also with the same opinion. Religions provide many excuses to the people for snatching rights of the others and killing others in the name of religion. Now, for how many times and when will the people come to realise that religion has become the most dangerous game.

______________________________________

[mh4cbs1]

Read this article! Outstanding summary of how we were LIED into Iraq by these NeoCon fascist SOBs.

http://www.commondreams.org/arc
hive/2007/06/15/1896/

Get your head out of the sand, get informed. Then impeach and JAIL Cheney and Bush for their Crimes, and vote the slimey spineless and complicit Democrats OUT of Congress.

[nothappyatall]

LOL they are going to blast each others shrines!!!
This is better than the movies and we have a front row seat, I only wish the xtians and some other group would do the same here- just blast each other's holy worship spaces into the ground.

[patriotic9]

5 more dead today, 6 if they don't find the pilot. It's not worth it and it never was. Enough is enough!
Posted by RandalDS at 06:42 PM : Jun 15, 2007

This war is worth fighting for CHENEY's Halliburton.

[randalds]

5 more dead today, 6 if they don't find the pilot. It's not worth it and it never was. Enough is enough!

[forthepeopl1]

THIS IS AMERICA'S ACCOUNTABILITY OVERSITE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


nJULY 21 2007 IS WHEN AMERICANS WILL BE FREE AGAIN

EVERYONE THAT WANTS TO HELP WITH THIS SHOULD BE TALKING TO ALL MEDIA OUTLETS AND TELLING THEM THAT AMERICANS ARE READY TO TAKE WASHINGTON ON AND ITS NOT A FEW AMERICANS ITMILLIONS OF AMERICANS THAT WILL TAKE BACK THERE COUNTRY..

I AM WILLING TO GIVE MY BLOOD FOR ALL AMERICANS TO GET OUR COUNTRY BACK TO WHAT OUR FORFATHERS WANTED.

AM A VET AND AM READY TO TAKE CHARGE OF THIS AMERICAN BOYCOT/COOP IF WE THE PEOPLE DONT DO THIS NOW WE WILL BE GIVENING UP ON OUR CONSTITUTION AND WHAT ALL OUR VET HAVE DIED FOR..

DAVID A BELANGER,VET US ARMY,[e-mail]

ok so wants to join in on this great american REVOLUTION


they cant kill millions of americans at once so if we charge them all at once we will win and take them out and hang them all..

just like in the old days of the west...hang them from the trees in front of the whitehouse and see how many start telling the truth about what they have done to all us americans..


its time to take all this *** and take our government back now..

they are the ones that started this and we will finnish it now..we the people will take our country back and everyone in washington can sit there and thinks we the people are ok with what they are doing..go ahead and let them think that we are comming to take them out

[deadjester1]

hey hows this for pc...

all f***ing muslims should f***ing hang.

solves our problems. until the next issue comes up. then what? there will always be wars, there will always be a murder rate. man is meant to kill his fellow man. we're really not that far removed from our ancestors in terms of civilized accountability for our actions.

i know this though: religion, any religion, christian, jew, muslim, hindu- all of them create separations between human beings and give us excuses to act irrationally. All f***ing religion must f***ing end. That I'll stand by.

[deadjester1]

hey hows this for pc...

all f***ing muslims should f***ing hang.

solves our problems. until the next issue comes up. then what? there will always be wars, there will always be a murder rate. man is meant to kill his fellow man. we're really not that far removed from our ancestors in terms of civilized accountability for our actions.

i know this though: religion, any religion, christian, jew, muslim, hindu- all of them create separations between human beings and give us excuses to act irrationally. All f***ing religion must f***ing end. That I'll stand by.

[forthepeopl1]

THIS IS AMERICA'S ACCOUNTABILITY OVERSITE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


nJULY 21 2007 IS WHEN AMERICANS WILL BE FREE AGAIN

EVERYONE THAT WANTS TO HELP WITH THIS SHOULD BE TALKING TO ALL MEDIA OUTLETS AND TELLING THEM THAT AMERICANS ARE READY TO TAKE WASHINGTON ON AND ITS NOT A FEW AMERICANS ITMILLIONS OF AMERICANS THAT WILL TAKE BACK THERE COUNTRY..

I AM WILLING TO GIVE MY BLOOD FOR ALL AMERICANS TO GET OUR COUNTRY BACK TO WHAT OUR FORFATHERS WANTED.

AM A VET AND AM READY TO TAKE CHARGE OF THIS AMERICAN BOYCOT/COOP IF WE THE PEOPLE DONT DO THIS NOW WE WILL BE GIVENING UP ON OUR CONSTITUTION AND WHAT ALL OUR VET HAVE DIED FOR..

DAVID A BELANGER,VET US ARMY,[e-mail]

ok so wants to join in on this great american REVOLUTION


they cant kill millions of americans at once so if we charge them all at once we will win and take them out and hang them all..

just like in the old days of the west...hang them from the trees in front of the whitehouse and see how many start telling the truth about what they have done to all us americans..


its time to take all this *** and take our government back now..

they are the ones that started this and we will finnish it now..we the people will take our country back and everyone in washington can sit there and thinks we the people are ok with what they are doing..go ahead and let them think that we are comming to take them out

[feelfree1]

notblue,

Re: "How much blood and treasure are willing to be destroyed by the militants until the fighting back is justified. If one was to accept your philosophy of pascifism at all costs, there would be no treasurs or blood left only Allah and his followers."

I can't imagine why you might think that your baseless spewage is relevant to this thread.

I have not laid out any philosophy here.

There is no doubt, however, that the people of Iraq have every right to defend themselves against the brutal and illegal invasion of their country, against collaborators, against privatized Blackwater, Dynecorp, and Wackenhut terrorists for rent, and against make believe 'al-CIA'da-in-Iraq' psy-ops nonsense.

There are no Iraqi terrorists in Iraq, and anyone in a similar situation as the Iraqi people, with any integrity, would resist complicity in such a disgraceful debacle.

[johnshaft4]

notblue- You are confused as usual. It was the Jews, not the Muslims that killed your Jesus.
So kill all of the jews while you are exterminating the Muslims. Go, get 'em tiger.

[tejasdemo]

Another great day spreadin democracy around the globe. I mean aint it just great ? Oh, except for all the dead people, but other than that great job !

Go to hell Bush and Cheney

[notblue]

FeelFree1, How much blood and treasure are willing to be destroyed by the militants until the fighting back is justified. If one was to accept your philosophy of pascifism at all costs, there would be no treasurs or blood left only Allah and his followers.

[feelfree1]

notblue,

You are very generous, with the blood and treasure of others.

[notblue]

JohnShaft4, retreat! retreat! retreat! the radicals are cheering for you. Do not fight back under any circumstances! If only the radical militants would just stop and take a timeout then we could all live happily ever after in your fairtale koombiya world! Too funny! What makes you think these militants you trivialize will ever quit there Jihad? Appeasent and complacency over the last thirties hasn't worked. We have only been fighting back for the last four so according to you it's high time we just give up. Great plan I'm sire it will work! LOL

[forthepeopl1]

THIS IS AMERICA'S ACCOUNTABILITY OVERSITE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


nJULY 21 2007 IS WHEN AMERICANS WILL BE FREE AGAIN

EVERYONE THAT WANTS TO HELP WITH THIS SHOULD BE TALKING TO ALL MEDIA OUTLETS AND TELLING THEM THAT AMERICANS ARE READY TO TAKE WASHINGTON ON AND ITS NOT A FEW AMERICANS ITMILLIONS OF AMERICANS THAT WILL TAKE BACK THERE COUNTRY..

I AM WILLING TO GIVE MY BLOOD FOR ALL AMERICANS TO GET OUR COUNTRY BACK TO WHAT OUR FORFATHERS WANTED.

AM A VET AND AM READY TO TAKE CHARGE OF THIS AMERICAN BOYCOT/COOP IF WE THE PEOPLE DONT DO THIS NOW WE WILL BE GIVENING UP ON OUR CONSTITUTION AND WHAT ALL OUR VET HAVE DIED FOR..

DAVID A BELANGER,VET US ARMY,[e-mail]

ok so wants to join in on this great american REVOLUTION


they cant kill millions of americans at once so if we charge them all at once we will win and take them out and hang them all..

just like in the old days of the west...hang them from the trees in front of the whitehouse and see how many start telling the truth about what they have done to all us americans..


its time to take all this *** and take our government back now..

they are the ones that started this and we will finnish it now..we the people will take our country back and everyone in washington can sit there and thinks we the people are ok with what they are doing..go ahead and let them think that we are comming to take them out

[johnshaft4]

notblue- Get your tail over there (along with your fellow Christian Soldiers) and kill all of them evildoer, Jesus hating, black rock/moon god loving Muslims. Hurry, hurry our freedoms and very way of life are dependent upon you. kill, kill, kill...go get 'em or god will call you home.

[notblue]

Radical Islam has been bolstered since Bush has been in office because he is actually fighting the barbarians unlike previous administrations, according to the logic of the Bush haters not fighting is the only thing that will appease the radicals, there's a plan that the terrorists love! Anyone who truly believes the militants didn't have a cause prior to Bush being president refuse to look at the truth of histroy and all the attacks carried out by the radicals over the last three decades.

[feelfree1]

Dear CBS Web Editors,

Re: "U.S. F-16 Crashes In Iraq"

Could you please explain why 5 dead U.S. soldiers and a downed U.S. fighter jet, is considered less important than a free add for a diet pill?