TWO U.S. SOLDIERS KILLED (2104)

[sabra]

http://www.centcom.mil/CENTCOMNews/Casualty_Report.asp?CasualtyReport=20051142.txt

November 24, 2005
Release Number: 05-11-42C


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


TWO U.S. SOLDIERS KILLED

BAGHDAD, Iraq — Two U.S. Soldiers were killed when their patrol struck an improvised explosive device on a road southwest of Baghdad Nov. 24.

The names of the Soldiers are being withheld pending notification of next of kin.

[GCP]

1. What a great Thanksgiving two families are going to have

:sarcasm:

I'd like to see Bush and Rumsfeld swinging from the nearest lamp-post :grr:

[IndianaGreen]

2. That bodycount keeps just ticking upwards

How many names do we want on the Iraq War Memorial?

[brucefan]

3. Ferchrissakes!

That's five since I got up this morning.Happy Thanksgiving George

[Brundle_Fly]

4. fuck. n/t

[blonndee]

5. Jeez!! Didn't we JUST have the vigil for 2000? This

is out of control. So freaking tragic and unnecessary.

[deadparrot]

6. RIP.

...

[xchrom]

7. remember the phony resolution when you remember these.

never forget.

[Chango]

8. Damn George Bush!

Rot in Hell, you evil bastard!

[Botany]

9. Blessings and prayers on their souls family & friends

TWO U.S. SOLDIERS :patriot:

:cry:

When will this madness stop? When?

[0007]

10. Pile 'em high!

Grass Bush

Pile the bodies high in Austerlitz and Waterloo Iraq
Shovel them under and let me work--
I am the grass; bush; I cover all.

And pile them high in Gettyburg Baghdad
And pile them high in Ypres and Vedum Mossoul and Al Fallaujah

Two years, ten years, and passengers ask the conductor:
What place is this?

I am the grass bush.
Let me work.

Carl Sandburg

[Barkley]

11. The White Man's Burden

Take up the White Man's burden--
Send forth the best ye breed--
Go bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need;
To wait in heavy harness,
On fluttered folk and wild--
Your new-caught, sullen peoples,
Half-devil and half-child.

...

Take up the White Man's burden--
No tawdry rule of kings,
But toil of serf and sweeper--
The tale of common things.
The ports ye shall not enter,
The roads ye shall not tread,
Go mark them with your living,
And mark them with your dead.


*This famous poem, written by Britain's imperial poet was a response to the American take over of the Philippines after the Spanish-American War 1899

[0007]

12. I like that poem. The Spanish American War was another nasty

high counting death affair.

[NuttyFluffers]

13. god, they're happening so fast now...

i'm scared that they'll start feeling like only numbers. it's hard to emotionally keep up with this madness.

we need to bring them home now. i don't care about my country's pride, or our "strategic advantage," or keeping up appearances anymore. i just want my fellow americans, my soldiers home. enough...

[bixente]

14. Puzzling

180 Iraqis killed in a week - couple of responses.
2 Americans - more than a dozen.

???

[keta11]

15. Where was Col. Schmidt to save the situation? nt