Roadside Bomb Kills U.S. Soldier (#2437)

[DrDebug]

Drive-By Shootings Kill 5 Iraqis, U.S. Soldier Dies In Bombing
BAGHDAD, Iraq, May 13, 2006

(AP) Five Iraqis were killed in drive-by shootings on Saturday, including a tribal sheik, while a U.S. Army soldier died in a roadside bomb attack, officials said.

The bodies of three Iraqis who had been kidnapped and tortured also were found in the capital of Iraq, police said.

The violence came as Prime Minister-designate Nouri al-Maliki struggled to put together his Cabinet, the final step in establishing his new government of national unity. The pace has been slow because of competing rivalries among Iraq's political parties, most of which represent specific religious or ethnic groups.

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The death of the U.S. Army soldier in a roadside bombing at 4 a.m. south of Baghdad on Saturday raised to at least 2,437 the number of members of the American military who have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/05/13/iraq/main1616377.shtml

[0007]

1. One more for the big pile

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


Support the war - Donate a Son a daughter
The GOP working for a better America
God Bless America

[rodeodance]

2. ```at least 2,437`````

[rodeodance]

3. nominated

[ckramer]

4. Gooood Morning....

Vietnam!

[saigon68]

5. Meanwhile---"BRING EM ON" shouted the AWOL SHRUGGING CHIMPANZEE

[leftchick]

6. 33 US dead in 13 days

and God only knows how many hundreds of Iraqis. :(