Six U.S. soldiers killed in attacks in Iraq

[RedEarth]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4016883/

BAGHDAD, Iraq — Six U.S. soldiers were killed and four were wounded in attacks in Iraq on Tuesday.


Three U.S. troops were killed and three others were hurt when a roadside bomb exploded about 25 miles south of Baghdad, the military said.

Earlier, three U.S. soldiers were killed and another wounded in a bombing in Khaldiyah, 50 miles west of Baghdad. The area is a hotspot of guerrilla activity and the site of several attacks on U.S.-led coalition forces. All four soldiers were from the 82nd Airborne Division, the military said.

Two Iraqi civilians also were killed in the ambush — including one who was shot in the stomach as he stood in his office nearby, hospital staff said.

In another attack, a driver and a translator-producer working for CNN were shot and killed by unidentified assailants outside Baghdad, the network said.


......truly tragic the mess that bush has gotten our country into.

[AntiSmirk]

1. Jeebus F-ing Kriest

I'm too mad for words. November can't get here soon enough!

[ClintonTyree]

2. More blood...............

on the hands of the never elected fraud. Yet he still insists there are WMD's and that invading Iraq was a prudent thing to do. The man is as dumb as a post.

[GCP]

3. My co-worker's grandson is due to go back there in February

1st Marines out of Pendleton. He was there last year for about 9 months. Poor kid's only 19.

FUCK YOU, BUSH. I FUCKING HATE YOUR GUTS.

[lastknowngood]

4. calm down it's all for the good of the

corporation errr a country.

[RedEarth]

5. My son's best friend is also due to go back to Iraq in March

I share your sentitment regarding bush and will borrow part of your post....FUCK YOU, BUSH. I FUCKING HATE YOUR GUTS.

[salinen]

9. WASHINGTON, U.S.A. — "Six U.S. politicians were killed

today by a roadside bomb east of the capital. All were top cabinet members, the dictator, and the vice dictator" The headlines of my dream.

[VLC98]

19. Mind if I join in?

FUCK YOU, BUSH. I FUCKING HATE YOUR GUTS.
That felt good.

[Hobarticus]

14. God go with that Marine, and watch over him.

May what he sees never turn his heart to hatred.

[0007]

6. Since Saddam Hussein's capture it seems to have got worse

For freepers viewing this site please take five minutes and view this video and tell me you if still feel the same about this administration.

http://www.kaicurry.com/gwbush/remindus.swf

[Hobarticus]

7. And the band played on...

I hear this, and it makes my blood boil.

How any serviceman could think their C-in-C's a good, noble, and moral man is lost on me.

[asjr]

8. Six American soldiers killed

today in a useless war, but the media has to cover the war of the Democrats. Discussing the killed would turn the problem back on Shrub and they can't have that. CNN and the whole lot of pundits, journalists, commentators should fall through the floor until they reach the center of the earth and stay there.

[Bonobo]

10. Am I the only one that thinks people are getting to "used" to it?

I'm afraid that with each successive death, there is an incremental decrease in people caring about it. I know it's the primaries and all, but if you think about it, it's only natural that it would be so. Familiarity breeds disinterest. Understandable, but fangerous, sad and pathetic...

[Barrett808]

17. Yes, some Heritage Foundation goon was crowing last week...

...about how the deaths of GIs had fallen from the front page back to pages four and five...what a thing to celebrate.

[RedEarth]

18. I agree.....I do think the public is getting used to it

520 US deaths, thousands wounded, and thousands of Iraqi citizens killed.....all because of bush.

To prevent this in the future, each of us has to do all we can to get out as many democrats to vote in the general election. I have never been so angry at a president as I am now and I think many other people feel the same way. We just have to convince them that their vote will make a difference. We have to get this fucking monster out of the White House.

[Hekate]

24. Only the media is getting used to it: see Arlington West

Here's a way to keep the real cost of war in the public eye:
Go to
http://www.veteransforpeace.org/Default.htm
then click on the large photo of AW,
which will take you here:
http://www.veteransforpeace.org/Arlington_west_121003.htm
Scroll down the page for all the photos, then go back up to follow the links

This Sunday-only virtual graveyard grows every week and brings tears to people's eyes. It's in a high-traffic area with lots of tourists, so it reaches a cross-section of the US -- and foreigners too. We try to keep it as non-political as possible (i.e. no anti-Bush posters, T-shirts, or buttons) and the response has been overwhelmingly positive. Last Sunday an active-duty Marine home on leave did a double-take at the name on one of the crosses -- it was his lieutenant. He stayed a long time...

The Bush administration brings the bodies home in the dark of night (fitting for a crime, isn't it?) and refuses to allow photographers anywhere near the place. The Bush administration, despite fine words about military personnel and vets, must in fact hold them in contempt because they are treated abominably.

People know. The newspapers need to be reminded to keep this issue near the front page. I personally don't give a rat's ass about Michael Jackson's arraignment nor his upcoming trial -- I wish he could just have his day in court like anybody else, rather than this media created circus. The news media needs to be reminded by people like us that we want real news in the forefront, and would like MJ and Kobe and other celebrity scandals relegated to a small space in the back.

People do know, but they need to find their voices again. Last year we had marches, rallies, petitions, and candlelight vigils. All those hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of our fellow Americans are still around. Believe it. I'm hoping they find their voice through the ballot box this year.

~~~On the whole, I prefer not to be lectured on patriotism by those who keep offshore maildrops in order to avoid paying their taxes. ~Molly Ivins~
~~The US flag is not a corporate logo for Bush-Cheney, Inc.~Hekate~~

[bushisanidiot]

27. Except for one thing.. Each American Killed In Iraq Has Family, Friends,

co-workers, fellow church members, etc. here in the united states who knew them. Each death is causing more and more americans to stop and think "was it worth it.. with or without the evidence of a WMD program.. was it worth it for my loved one to die?"

[JPace]

11. Precious American blood for what?

Iraq will eventually be in a civil war
and worse off then if we had left them
alone.

Hundreds of our best killed and thousands
physically handicapped so AWOL can bully
the world and enrich his corporate buddies.

[Kat 333]

23. Just as "Precious" Iraqi blood for what ?

[laruemtt]

12. i hear the screams of the families

as they're notified juxtaposed with that smirking piece of shit and i could just .... damn that freaking patriot act - i can't even vent without fear of being taken away! just damn them all to hell.

[NeoConsSuck]

13. When the hell

are the goddamn occupiers (not liberators) going to throw up their hands and admit this "Blood for Oil" thing maybe wasn't such a good idea?

[Malva Zebrina]

16. Never

as far as I am concerned. The country has become used to it. It is called the Pall effect. It is simply an amusement at this point,for the compliant and well paid media, as long as not too many of anyone's loved ones are at risk==in other words those who are NOT military.

NO ONE is outraged. I am outraged that NO ONE is outraged!!

These are young lives that are being snuffed out in their prime,for no good reason, and on the lies of the stupid, evil, godamm AWOL coward of a usurper, George Bush.

Families and children are bereft of their precious loved one and the stupid AWOL dumbassed George Bush,the smirker, the wise guy, the one who has never had to do a thing in his life to earn a living, who is going around the country on our money, galavanting and cashing in on his election campaign money, refuses to recognize these young people who have died in the prime of thier life, because of his greed and his stupidity and because of his cowardly sense that if he does attend a funeral or acknowledge a one of "his" troops who have been used by his insatiable greed and his narcissistic and irresponsible use of power to make war, by name, it will reflect badly upon HIM!!

Dammit, I am angry at this--this loss of young life for and on the lies of a cowardly deserter himself who prances and preens his genitals in costume for all the photo ops that are worth to print as if that makes him the man he never will be and he knows it.

. They will never be the same again, these families. Some may have at least three or four children who will be grieving for the rest of their lives.

Where, godammit is the outrage?!! Do we all just go about our daily business, clucking and tch tching over the three American lives lost this day and then go on to make cookies and bake bread as if nothing at all is going on?

And who is bringing this atrocitity to attention of the American people? Where is the goddam outrage? This is abnormal and is pathologic.

[Just Me]

28. Abnormal and dysfunctional, indeed,...

,...although I do believe there are multiple influences at work not the least of which is an intentional filtering of the disturbing truth in order to manipulate the masses. I certainly identify with your anger and frustration. I also mourn the tragedies imposed upon so many innocent and powerless people :cry: by greedy, power-mongering, filthy old men :mad:.

[saigon68]

29. Not in the lifetime of the Chimp

Never

[qanda]

15. So sad!

May God be with their families.

[stopbush]

20. Lest we forget: "Bring 'em on." - shrubshit n/t

[teryang]

21. Focus like a laser beam

The democratic candidates should ask for a moment of silence in respect for the soldiers who gave their lives in the pursuit of an unnecessary elective war based upon fraud and venal motives.

Why isn't this being discussed? Because it's unpleasant? Because it is empirical evidence of the dishonesty, incompetence and failure of the current regime? Too hot to handle? There are 520 dead soldiers being swept under the carpet. It is a political mistake to tap dance around this subject.

[are_we_united_yet]

22. Dick Shrub Donald Condi Colin Paul and Richard

You got the war you wanted and I think it sucks.

[Spentastic]

25. You know what

Bush couldn't give a flying fuck about the dying and dead. He cares not a jot. That makes hime evil.

Some protestors had 500 pairs of empty boots symbolising the dead. I'd like them to modify their display and make the boots spell

"Bring it on"

Words have consequences you stupid little brain stunted fuck.

[Cooley Hurd]

26. Once the Iraqi Civil War starts...

...6 dead will seem light. I used to be a proponent of "we made the mess, we need to clean it up." Now, I feel we need to get out ASAP, before the lahma bi ajeen hits the fan...

[kurtyboy]

30. Good God, this will be worse than Algeria

NT