3 U.S. troops killed in Iraq car bombing (bridge )

[maddezmom]

Source: AP

MAHMOUDIYA, Iraq - With a thunderous rumble and cloud of dust and smoke, a suicide car bomb brought down a section of highway bridge south of Baghdad, killing three U.S. soldiers and wounding six from a checkpoint guarding the crossing and blocking traffic on Iraq's main north-south artery.

The U.S. military said engineers were being dispatched with bulldozers and other heavy equipment to clear the highway, which was partially blocked by debris from the overpass. An Iraqi interpreter also was wounded in the attack, according to the statement


Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070611/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

[Eugene]

1. Your link goes to the Intl. news section.

Article link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070611/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

[maddezmom]

2. thanks, fixed it n/t

[Erika]

3. Tony Snow says don't take it personally

It's just a number, that's all. No big deal.

[MatrixEscape]

4. It seems to me that ...

the tragic deaths of American troops in Iraq is becoming some sort of sick fetish. The fact is, as long as we are going to allow our soldiers to be sent into that travesty, they will continue to dye one by one and the amassed total will certainly grow. How is this alarming or worthy of note?

What is worthy of note is the absolute failure of the American people to enact or create any change in the scenario whatsoever. We can no longer afford ourselves the comfortable luxury of passive blame if we still believe that WE are the people and it is our system. This idea is totally incompatible with what is occurring. Either we are now complicity allowing our men and woman to die for no discernible reason and honorable purpose becuase of of a failure of of our own making, or we have become powerless in our will and intent and our government no longer serves our will at all. Either way, we are faced with a national conundrum of stupifying proportions and it is not even a newsworthy issue, it seems.

When Americans are willing and able to take full responsibility for what is currently happening to our sons, daughters, sisters, brothers, wives and husbands at hands of the rogue Bush Adminstration, then, and only then, will there be any real potential for saving the lives and minds and futures of those who are next in line.

To quote Steppenwolf form the old song, Monster:
America, where are you now?
Don't you care about your son's and daughters?
Don't you know, we need you now!
We can't fight alone against the monster.

Placing blame and pointing at the White House and its resident puppet/clone is totally ineffectual and serves merely as a ruse and catharsis for rage and dissent. Over several years now, it should be clear that it is merely symbolic and useless in every respect. When we take this horrific burden and responsibility upon us, (We the People) then, and only then, will the saving grace come for those who stand in line to fall and die. Only then can we rescue the honor and dignity of those who have already fallen for a traitorous and subversive delusion foisted upon us while we were asleep. One if by land, two if by sea, three if by media.

Let's get serious and stop this now. There is no reason whatsoever to delay this process and defer it to the next round of political candidates, unless you intend for more to be maimed and die for nothing more than profit and domination. Our system's underlying tenets and values indicates that something real and tangible can and SHOULD be done as if it was actually us doing it all along the way. Stand up, be counted, and consider your place in the values of this process and paradigm!

Oh, or maybe I should apologize here? Perhaps you were looking more for ways to support your own comfortable place in this overtly manipulative system where you comfort could be at stake and your feigned outrage and political activism is nothing more than an outlet to clear your conscience while you enjoy a hermit ally sealed life of personal self-interests? After all, we do need outlets for the inconsistencies that our facades and inconsistencies create, don't we now? Self-contradictions are pretty much the norm in this culture. They may very well spell the end of it as we know if we fail to wake up to that fact.

http://www.sensiblyeclectic.com/news/index.php?/archives/5507-On-Becoming-Comfortably-Unplugged.html

[Erika]

5. The only way this will stop is with a draft

The country is more than willing to sit back and say they voluntarily enlisted and died. So many of these kids went in to earn money for education.

The rich kids don't need to.

[MatrixEscape]

6. Well, it seems that a virtual draft is already in place.

If you live in a rural area, you might know that many young men and woman have very little in alternatives for education and employment other than the military. To be real and practical, socio-economic factors can act just as effectively, and yet more subtly and covertly, than an actual draft. I guess you would have to see and hear it to believe it.

In that case, I don't believe a draft would create the scenario you are imagining. It could potentially create more legitimization for the occupation effort in the public eye. The progeny of the wealthy don't and won't go to the depths of hell we are sending our sons and daughters. At worst, they will direct them as they plunge into the chaos and blood of battle if they have to "serve" our country at all. Money and privlige provides, as GW has proves, many ways out of that predicament, as well.

Contrary to what people believe and have been told, we don't need a draft. We don't need a changing of the political guard in order to effect change. We really only need the will of The People to be be made manifest and acted and that will require a concerted effort and will and action until the results are attained. That is plain and simple, but it seems to be our failure so far.

[David__77]

7. The Iraqi people will stop it.

Americans didn't stop the war against Vietnam; in the final analysis, it was the resistance of the people of Indochina. Likewise, it is the people of Iraq who will raise the price to the US such that withdrawal is a necessity.

[Massachusetts]

10. Begin to draft the middle class eligibles and watch how fast things will change.

[theHandpuppet]

8. One of the best DU posts I've read in some time

And I'm afraid most of us have to plead guilty.

[xchrom]

9. but they were able to buy rugs cheap to console their families.

[sabra]

11. K & R