14 U.S. Soldiers Killed In 3 Days In Iraq

[Mark E. Smith]

Iraq: The lie that keeps on killing.

AP 27 minutes ago

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A car bomb exploded next to a US Army convoy in Baghdad killing 3 soldiers, while another American died in a drive-by shooting a half hour later. Their deaths pushed the number of US troops killed in three days to 14, part of attacks that have also killed about 60 iraqis.

Eighteen US troops have been killed in Iraq during the past week, raising concerns that insurgents may again be focusing their sights on American forces in addition to Shiite Muslims.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050524/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

[Skypilot 18]

1. Haven't you heard?

Bunnypants said yesterday that we were winning in Iraq. Just what we're suppose to be winning is still up in the air. I think the prize has do do with a lot more Americans in body bags. NOT!

This war is so completely of the scale as far as evil is concerned. Yes, The lie that keeps on killing. and killing and killing. And all we get from the White House is Laura telling jack-off jokes and pretending everything is all cream and peaches.

Disgusting.

[margaritamama]

2. Keeps getting

WORSE!

[Smarmie Doofus]

3. But this must be OK; otherwise there'd be some mention....

of the war on the DNC website.

Just looked. Can't find.

[Skypilot 18]

4. since when

Since when did the DNC becom the MSM ?

[cliss]

13. Notice, the deadly silence from Washington.

Not a word, as the deaths keep going up.

What can they say? What can they POSSIBLY say, at this point?

[Smarmie Doofus]

18. From Washington, yes; but what about from our own....

political party? The party that some of us still send $$$ to and that keeps asking me for $$$$ ?!?

This "strategy"... if you can call it that... of the nat'l party, to appeal to the perceived short-term self interests ( i.e. bread and butter issues) of the voters and ignore the most serious moral and ethical issue of this era is cynical, amoral and nauseating.

We have no influence with Bush, obviously. But if the DEM rank and file made its feelings known to the party hierarchy, we might push the party and, specifically the DEM caucus in the senate, to do something. Or at least SAY something.

[hiley]

5. "Operation Squeeze Play." Over 600 Iraqis have been killed in just over a

Violence continues in Iraq on a daily basis. A car bomb in central Baghdad killed at least nine Iraqis on Tuesday. Meanwhile the death toll from a string of attacks on Monday has risen to at least 54. Over 130 people were wounded. Over 600 Iraqis have been killed in just over a month.
The latest attacks came as American and Iraqi forces are conducting a joint offensive in Baghdad. The US military announced that over 420 people were arrested in just over 30 hours during the sweep dubbed "Operation Squeeze Play."

Five US troops have also been killed in the past two days. But Americans almost never see photographs from Iraq showing U.S. troops killed in action. Images of thousands of dead U.S. soldiers helped to turn the tide of public opinion against the Vietnam War, but now photo-journalists are even banned from military funerals at Arlington national cemetery. A report this weekend in the Los Angeles Times documented the extremely rare publication of photos of American casualties in six major newspapers during a sixth month period. Readers of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Washington Post never saw a single picture of a dead serviceman in their morning papers.

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http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/24/1341241

"This so-called ill treatment and torture in detention centers, stories
of which were spread everywhere among the people, and later by the
prisoners who were freed … were not, as some assumed, inflicted
methodically, but were excesses committed by individual prison guards, their
deputies, and men who laid violent hands on the detainees."
Rudolf Hoess,
the SS commandant at Auschwitz.

One thing is for certain: There won't be any more mass graves and
torture rooms and rape rooms."—Bush, press availability in Monterrey,
Mexico, Jan. 12, 2004

[TomClash]

6. Shut up! So what? We're winning!

I love America. Why don't you?

:sarcasm:

[Inland]

7. Turning corner, blah blah blah, gettting desparate, blah blah blah

Better to fight them over there, blah blah, why do you hate america blah blah blah.

[ckramer]

8. Did these soldiers buy life insurance?????

[tabasco]

9. How many names will be on the Iraq War memorial?

How many will die for corporate profits this time?

This is a criminal war and those responsible will be held accountable.
Someday.

[CAG]

15. "The Iraq War Memorial", sponsored by Halliburton, Exxon,

,the Heritage Foundation, PNAC, and BP oil.

I can just see it now; they pay for the Memorial, and they get to have little billboards advertising their goods as you walk through reading the names of the dead.

[rainy]

10. Iraq: The lie that keeps on killing.

I want this on a bumper sticker!!!!!!! Where can I get it done? This is a perfect phrase. Sad but powerful.

[Mark E. Smith]

12. Me Too

Someday I'll figure out that Cafe Press place.

[chlamor]

11. 9 in the last 24 hours

Nine American troops killed in Iraq


BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Insurgent attacks during the past 24 hours have killed nine U.S. troops in Iraq, the military said Tuesday.

Three soldiers died in a car bombing in central Baghdad on Tuesday and a fourth -- who was manning an observation post -- was killed by a drive-by gunman, Task Force Baghdad spokesman, Maj. Darryl Wright said.

Four other American soldiers were killed by a bomb on Monday, the military said. They were assigned to the 155th Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force.

The explosive "detonated near their vehicle" in fighting in Haswa, south of Baghdad.

A ninth American -- a Marine -- died Monday after an "indirect fire attack" on Camp Blue Diamond in Ramadi, the Marines said.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/05/24/iraq.main/index.html

[PurityOfEssence]

16. Drive by shootings are definitely a new wrinkle

Nobody seems to want to hazard a guess as to why the casualty rates are increasing, so here goes: having targeted their fellow Iraqis of different affiliations and killed many, it's now time for them to add to the American body count. The government is what it is (or isn't, actually) and they're flailing about trying to gain a foothold on reality so they can draft their Constitution. For the moment, the disruption is playing out along its various lines. Since the players have settled in with a pattern of killing off whatever new leader emerges, it's now time to go back to plugging the invaders.

That's the inescapable truth that so many have voiced about this kind of conflict: the conquerers have to occasionally come out of their hidey holes, and all the locals have to do is pop one or two of them when they do. IT'S NOT THAT HARD.

The sheer idiocy of it just reeks of Vietnam, except here it's not "rural pacification", it's "URBAN pacification". The very act of showing the flag shows the flank, and we seem weaker with every passing day. Now that they're using drive-bys, they'll probably start mounting platoon sized raids on squads who are stretched too thin, and they'll keep thumping on the supply lines.

What a horrendous example of arrogance and stupidity we're setting, and we seem to be learning nothing. Sure, we learn how to counteract IEDs, but the basic dynamic of our patrolling is the same and will net the same results. Woe be to us if we REALLY think that the low casualty rates of the last few months are due to the locals' inability to do anything else; they've been concentrating on each other, and now they're back to show us something.

So sad.

[burrowowl]

14. Not the worse

but up there and the month isn't finish.

Go to Iraq Causualities.

[The_Casual_Observer]

17. It's going to have to get a lot worse than this in order to move

the public off their fat asses, and bush knows it.

[leftchick]

19. I figure a hundred dead a day ought to do it...

because then we will have to have a draft.