Three US soldiers, four Palestinians, 11 Iraqis killed on eve of feast

[Emillereid]

Sunday February 1, 5:26 AM
A barrage of attacks killed three US troops and 15 civilians -- nine of them in a Mosul suicide car bombing that reduced a police station to a smoldering ruin on the eve of a major Muslim holiday.



A mortar exploded on a crowded Baghdad street late Saturday, killing four people and leaving 14 wounded, said a neighbourhood representative.

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Late Saturday night, a shell exploded in the northern Baladiyyat district, killing four Palestinians and one Iraqi, deputy chairman of the local Palestinian council, Anwar al-Sheikh, told AFP.



Although the motives behind the attack were not immediately clear, a US military base is situated just 300 metres (yards) away from the northern Baghdad neighbourhood.....

http://sg.news.yahoo.com/040131/1/3hoar.html

Some of this story seems to be new bad news while the rest is a summary of yesterdays death and mayhem.

[Syrinx]

1. are these "3" new since I watched the Saturday night news?

I meant Saturday night news.

[Guaranteed]

2. John Kerry authorized this war. nt

[aquart]

3. Yes, he did. Our Congress drips with blood.

But if Kerry's the candidate, we'll both suck it up and vote for him.

Because the judges he will appoint will not be the same judges Bush will appoint.

Keep that in mind.

[Skittles]

4. true

but I'd rather have a better candidate

[Sugarbleus]

5. Me too skittles.. n/t

[Guaranteed]

6. What makes me think Kerry is going to lose more than anything else

is that I know that politics, and, more specifically, statistics, are a matter of degrees. In feeling my very genuine lack of enthusiasm for Kerry, and understanding that I'm certainly not alone in that feeling (after all, where's Kerry been for the past two years, when we needed him?), even if I do manage to drag myself to the polls to vote against Bush, I know that there are an awful lot of people out there who aren't going to. Shaving off even a small percentage of one's voting constituency in a country as polarized as this one, which we're doing in nominating Kerry, will lose this race for us.

I think that the importance of leadership is accentuated by this phenomena....even the people that disagreed with Dean would have glady gone to the polls and voted for him, I know, because even while they didn't like the guy, they really believed in him. They understood that he wasn't screwing around, that he was really trying to kick Bush's ass. Kerry just isn't going to inspire anybody. The importance of the election is going to bring a lot of voters to the polls, but it's going to be that way for both sides, and I think there are a lot of folks out there, like me, and others on this board, who looked to Kerry for leadership over the past two years and were left hanging. I just can't get myself to care about Kerry.

[Gingersnapsback]

7. Kerry believed Bush

Had the facts, and get the UN and world wide support before he would strike preemptively. Bush lied to him and he regrets that he miscalculated the P-resident's integrity.

Kerry cares about getting our country back as much as Dean...especially since Bush got over on him. He wants to save our kids from going to war because he has been there and done that and knows how awful it is. We must unite with enthusiasm and support the man who can beat Bush.

[YankmeCrankme]

8. I can't be too impressed...

with a guy who would believe anything Bush said, he should have been highly sceptical. Also, unless I'm mistaken, Kerry has said that the war was correct but that Bush just didn't do it right. I don't think he was ever anti-war.

[Skittles]

9. if Kerry believed that, he is not qualifed to hold office, period

I think Kerry KNEW Bush was full of shit (come on, it was obvious) but voted for IWR anyway which is much, much more shameful than being deceived.

[Guaranteed]

10. People forget so easily.

I can't believe there are so many Kerry supporters on this board after he abandoned us for two years.

[alcuno]

11. This is actually Dean's best line and one reason I've supported him.

He says something to the effect that he could figure out from his own living room that the administration was not being truthful. Why then couldn't our own members of Congress? We're either left with a liar or a dupe.

[fishnfla]

12. Y'all please dont play campaign games in a dead soldier thread.

please

[Guaranteed]

13. People have forgotten. They need a reminder.

I hold it against Bush, I hold it against Kerry.

[Aidoneus]

14. there was an interesting label on the mortars that hit the Palestinians

...According to al-Jazeera TV, five Palestinians were killed in the mortar attack and five others wounded when the first mortar shell struck the largely Palestinian residential building. A second mortar round landed between two buildings.
Al-Jazeera’s correspondent noted the absence of any Iraqi puppet police or US occupation troops, as well as the lack of ambulances in the area of the blast. Al-Baladiyat neighborhood is home to many Palestinian refugees of the 1948 occupation of Palestine. The al-Jazeera correspondent said that bodies of those killed had been taken to the al-Quds mosque and that they would be buried after Eid al-Adha.
The al-Jazeera correspondent said that the President of the Palestinian National Committee in the area, Dr. Qusay Rif‘at said “We don’t want to accuse any party in particular of being behind this attack, but we did read on the remnants of the two mortar shells the sentence ‘Made in USA.’”... source

American-made weapons are killing them in occupied Palestine, now in occupied Iraq..