Report: 31 GIs Wounded in Iraq Bomb Blast

[bluestateguy]

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=M5XYIM12TAPSCCRBAEZSFFA?type=topNews&storyID=3959328

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Thirty-one U.S. soldiers were wounded when a car bomb exploded at the entrance to their base in a northern Iraq town Tuesday, the U.S. Army said.
Major Trey Cate of the 101st Airborne said soldiers at the base in Tal Afar, west of the city of Mosul, fired on the vehicle when it failed to stop at an entry point. The vehicle then detonated, he said, adding that it appeared to be a suicide bombing.

[Rex]

1. I hope they all live

this makes me ill.

[joshcryer]

7. Yahoo says there were no life threatening injuries.

edit... came out wrong... fucking bush... fucking war... my brother is over there. Damn... close one. Good luck boys.

[grytpype]

2. How can Bush sleep at night?

[Bucky]

15. By ignoring the problems he's caused

[tom_paine]

41. The Sleep of the Murderous Tyrant...

What, you think Hitler's sleep was interrupted by the faces of his victims?

Pinochet, Marcos, Amin, or any of the others who are like unto our (not my) Emperor Bunnypants*?

No, hell, Pinochet is STILL defending his murderous behavior, as if he did nothing wrong.

One imagines Hitler and Bush, though their crimes are still quite disparate they are the same kind of people, doing the same.

Bush, like all murderous tyrants who don't have to worry about the Will of the People, sleeps very well indeed, IMHO.

[JaySherman]

3. Just when you thought it was safe...

Here we go again. Been (relatively) quiet the last few days. Couldn't expect that to last, though. I second the sentiment about no one being killed, but with the Pentagon's newest efforts at hiding the casualties I suspect we may never know if they are.

[rwenos]

6. You'll Never See . . .

Bushie Boy, the deserter, photographed next to the coffins of American soldiers.

It's really good Bush has no cojones for this, actually, since his presence would dishonor those dead soldier's sacrifice.

I cry for them, every night. I make myself look each of them in the eye, when Jim Lehrer runs their photos. In their last agony, God rest their souls, did any of them realize they were dying because Bushie Boy wanted a lollypop from Cheney and the grownups?

This is shameful. Shameful. God bless those American soldiers. God damn Bush, God damn his soul.

[aquart]

12. What soul?

[rwenos]

17. He Had One Before He Sold It

There are all kinds of whores in this world.
Bush sold his soul long ago. Cheney and the Suits own it, thus it still can be damned.

What scum this man is.

[aquart]

22. Name one, just one instance in George's life

That demonstrates that he possessed a soul at any time.

Okay, maybe the cradle. But after one swig of Barbara......

[rumguy]

24. Beautiful...an argument about whether Bush ever had a soul

Damn..now I've seen it all...

[Sugarbleus]

32. Good point aquart..

I say damn Momma Bush also. What a bitch she has shown herself to be. So calm, twiddling with her pearls and blathering on about some "wonderful" thing she's experiencing. The one who gave birth to this little nazi and filled their heads full of crap. Talk about a dysfunctional family!

[kainah]

45. It hasn't really been that quiet

The media simply went into cower mode again and is burying the casualty stories again -- and we all know the wounded stories aren't covered. We're still losing 1+ a day. :sigh:

[bluestateguy]

4. Just watch

By saying they are "injured" they can stuff it in the back of the newspaper if and when a few of these men die of their wounds.

[wtmusic]

8. Good point

I wouldn't be surprise if they keep some deaths under wraps for a day or two to spread out the shock.

[ochazuke]

9. The injured are downplayed in the media

It's like Bill Maher says, Americans think that dying is the absolute worst thing that can happen. So, by comparison, loosing limbs or becoming paralysed etc. is not even worth mentioning.

[POed_Ex_Repub]

10. Yahoo news already says

That none of the injuries are life threatening...

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20031209/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_bomb&cid=540&ncid=716

Hope it's true.

[kskiska]

16. You can lose all four limbs

and still live. They make "life threatening" sound like maybe just a few cuts.

[NIGHT TRIPPER]

21. 2,526 U.S. Troops Wounded so far

Many will live out the rest of their lives handicapped
and guess what,
Their injuries were not life threatening.
Bring our troops home now!!


http://lunaville.org/warcasualties/Summary.aspx

[eileen_d]

27. "one weekend a month my ass"

That's no damn joke... my friend's husband's unit just got called up for 18 months in Iraq. :grr:

[Sugarbleus]

30. EXCELLENT POST!

I am soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo angry with this administrations crap. I am so unbelievably sad and sick to my stomach at the way this bung hole prez sent our precious men and women over there to an illegal war and THEN LEAVES THEM THERE TO FIGURE IT OUT FOR THEMSELVES. :grr:
Bush should go to PRISON for the rest of his life! Preferably something akin to "Devils Island". He is truely and EVIL EVIL man, likewise his radical party.
Yes, BRING OUR PEOPLE HOME NOW!

[frank frankly]

13. 31 wounded, no deaths

i hope its true, but how could it be?

it really is going to get much worse.

bring them home now. now.

[Bozita]

19. Does that seem possible?

hhhhhmmm.

[PaDUer]

26. Don't forget this...

the injuries that are occurring over there right now are BRAIN INJURIES..higher than what they counted on! These people will never be the same, plus, they took their benefits away from them!

[ochazuke]

43. Do you mean psychic damage?

How many of us have met or heard of a Vietnam vet who still suffers from the horrors of that war, yet wasn't "wounded"?

Maybe that's why all of the people who misled us into this new Vietnam are "chicken hawks" who have no experience of war.

[La_Serpiente]

5. Holy Fuck

What the hell is going on over there???

Bring our boys home.

[Dr Fate]

11. I'm not digging this war...

...I think it was based on lies, and I feel terrible for these American deaths- I Bush's "go it alone" strategy is putting the hardships on American families...

Bush's Iraq plan is all wrong...

[aquart]

14. You THINK it was based on lies?

Honey, this is way past an opinion. It's a documented confirmed fact.

This war was based on lies.

Bush lies.

It's what he does best and he's still crappy at it.

[Must_B_Free]

18. Great news!

According to Bush, this is progress in the war on terror!

God Bless America with his mighty Hand of Protection!

[PennyLane]

20. Can You Even Imagine?

How frightening it must be on a day to day basis?

[wabeewoman]

46. Yes....

Three soldiers were killed from the Stryker unit today that just went over. They have an embedded newspaper reporter who has been writing about them so it makes you feel you know them. It was an 'auto accident' so won't be reported. I think its time for the wives and mothers and fathers of these people to march on the white house and refuse to leave until they come home. I am so angry and sad and hopeless about the whole situation!

[Kat 333]

23. Yes

those evil doers. They hate our freedoms. Freedom hating evil doers.
blah blah blah How bout - You Attacked an Innocent County ... Killed Thousands of defenseless people. Based on LIES No Less. Stupid Fuck. Merciless Murderer.

[nadinbrzezinski]

25. or time we send

these idiots a copy of "Johnny Got his Gun." Maybe, just maybe, they'll get it. who am I Ridding here? They don't care. Oh and yes it will get worst. At least Bremmer "warned" us this time. He might have figured that we can't be fooled no more.

[roguevalley]

28. Get the new Newsweek. (Or time. Damn. I was so overcome by the

story they will tell to remember)

Apparently Osama and his bunch are vacating in a big way Afghanistan and going to Iraq because its easier to kill Americans there and they are in a "rising tide of blood" or some such quote.

The shift and the money is going to Iraq. Expect hell to multiply and divide in the next month or so. Sy Hersh on Charlie Rose said that he heard our special ops guys are going over there in a big way now to get the cells.

Civil War. Hell. Bush didn't get a bump off his turkey trot. He will catch hell for the coming armageddon.

[Voltaire99]

29. Andrew Sullivan, are you happy now?

Sullivan is only one of the right wing cranks who have argued that using troops as bait for terror in Iraq is an effective way to guard the Fatherland.

What a despicable war. What a despicable political establishment in this nation when almost no one is seriously talking about withdrawal. And among the Dem contenders, those talking withdrawal haven't a prayer.

God help us.

[karlschneider]

31. They are saying 41 now...n/t

[0007]

33. Amazing that 41 were hurt and no dead!

[Media_Lies_Daily]

34. Too amazing, IMHO.

[DeaconBlues]

35. imagine the psychological trauma that these poor soldiers are

going through. Many of them will never feel safe again (PTSD). The number of physical casualties will be small compared to the number of psychological casualties.

[UpInArms]

36. now saying 58 WOUNDED TROOPS

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=418833§ion=news

TAL AFAR, Iraq (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber has wounded 58 U.S. soldiers and three Iraqis when he charged the gates of an American military base and blew up his explosives-packed vehicle as troops opened fire.

In Baghdad, a blast hit a Sunni mosque after morning prayers on Tuesday, killing three Iraqis and raising the spectre of further sectarian tension adding to instability in Iraq.

Near the flashpoint town of Falluja west of the capital, a U.S. Kiowa helicopter made an emergency landing after coming under fire, an American military spokeswoman said. A Reuters photographer saw the helicopter in flames in a field.

[Rebel_with_a_cause]

38. That's nearly double the original report

How accurate can the report of nicks, scrapes, bruises and broken bones be?

[htuttle]

40. Maybe they are digging them out of rubble?

Anyone seen any footage of the blast area?

No, I didn't think so...

[Rebel_with_a_cause]

37. 1000 pounds of explosives were used

In the Beruit massacre of 244 Marines during the Reagan years, 12,000 pounds of explosives were used. The vehicle only needed to be parked in front of the base to do heavy damage in that one.

[ConcernedCanuk]

39. Wouldja think that when all sorts of people keep killing Murikkans

. . that maybe Murikka should change it's attitude ??

. . oh right

. . they did

. building mini-nukes now

. kill MORE people

. Dat's de answer - eh?

(sigh)

[tom_paine]

42. It's not Amerikans, per se, Concerned Canuck

We, like Argentina under Pinochet or the Phillipines under Marcos, are powerless against a group of tyrants who stole our country in a Bloodless Coup.

Now, yes, as in those regiumes, many Brownshirts and other unthinking types support the Emperor and his seizure of power. many others, captivated by a disinformation infrastructure which makes Hitler and Stalin's propaganda look like a kid with a megaphone, ignore the situation out of disinformation or confusion.

Will the Imperial Subjects of Amerika, like the 1930s Germans before them, eventually turn Bushevik disinformation into self-fufilling prophecy? Maybe.

But we are under the "kinder and gentler" boot of Occuptation Forces who have seized and are busy dismantling those things that made the Old American Republic the Leader of the Free World.

To ignore that is to ignore the truth of the situation in Imperial Amerika and also the Empire's actions while under Tyrant's Boot.

[Moderator]

44. Kick

:dem:

[Just Me]

47. At least I still feel sick, rather than NUMB,...

,...like everyone around me who pays little to no attention,...perhaps it is the inattentiveness that makes me feel so sick,...

THESE VALUABLE AMERICAN LIVES SHOULD BE ON THE AMERICAN TELEVISION SCREEN EVERY SINGLE DAY,...but they are diminished by stupid, trivial, crap,...that makes me feel sick, too.

I don't know who to anger against,...the blame spreads too broadly across governmental, corporate, social and cultural lines,...all the way down to little ole' me, even though I disagree. Life is so f*ckin' unfair!!!

Gawd,...with heart that I do have,...it bleeds for all those people who did NOT invite the suffering imposed upon them.