Iraqi dies in attack on Baghdad Green Zone

[sabra]

http://www.irishexaminer.com/breaking/story.asp?j=189577944&p=y8957865x&n=189578704

Iraqi dies in attack on Baghdad Green Zone :: latest

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Two rockets exploded this afternoon in the Green Zone, which includes the US and British embassies. The US military said one Iraqi was killed and two other Iraqis were wounded.

[endarkenment]

1. Get those helicopters warmed up.

Hopefully the same incompetent fools who did Katrina and who are doing the Beirut evacuation will not be in charge of the Baghdad exit.

[rocktivity]

9. DING DING DING! Endarkenment, you're our grand prize winner!

Get those helicopters warmed up...

It was only a matter of time, of course. How big an area IS the Green Zone, anyway? And how did Lyndon Baines Johnson put it--withdrawal with honor?

:headbang:
rocknation

[bemildred]

2. Not a good sign. nt

[ugarte]

3. Dien Bien Phu or Little Big Horn?...nt

[catmandu57]

4. Dien Bien Phu

Little big horn only lasted hours this is going to go on for a while.

[bemildred]

6. True. Custer didn't have any helicopters, either.

Dien Bien Phu is much better.

[pscot]

7. I don't think they had choppers

at Dien Bien Phu either. You're probably thinking of the evacuation of Saigon. Definitely a chopper show.

[bemildred]

8. Probably right, planes they had, but not choppers.

That was one of the issues, moving stuff in and out by air.

Edit: and you are right, I was muddling it up with Saigon (excuse me Ho Chi Minh City).

[Mandate My Ass]

5. I bet Bushco and congress critters stop visiting now

the cheerleading will be done strictly on American soil.

[MadMaddie]

10. It has been going on for awhile.....when the comedian

Kathy Griffen went over to perform for the troops she visited the soldiers in the hospital......one of the men was walking to the mess hall with his fiance and the area outside of the mess hall was attacked his fiance was killed.....his other buddy seriously injured....

The news is just getting out about the attacks...