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NeoConsSuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 06:03 AM
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Roadside bomb kills 2 soldiers, one Iraqi
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A roadside bomb Thursday morning killed two U.S. soldiers and one Iraqi near Khaldiya, west of Baghdad, a coalition military spokesman said.

The attack happened at 10:30 a.m. (2:30 a.m. ET), the spokesman said.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/02/19/sprj.nirq.main/index.html
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tkmorris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 06:07 AM
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1. Every single god-damned day
around this time I read another of these reports. This is getting so old. Mission Accomplished my ass!
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Flagg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 06:37 AM
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2. Bring 'em on ?
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Rebel_with_a_cause Donating Member (933 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 07:10 AM
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3. Your graphic is exactly right
sitting ducks they are
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Cooley Hurd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 08:10 AM
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4. Kick... never forget what's at stake in November...
The killing MUST stop! Two more families devastated by this illegal and amoral war.

This is why Bush's ouster is imperative!!! :grr:
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NeoConsSuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 08:51 AM
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7. My count is three (3) families.. (no message)
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markses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 08:54 AM
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8. Counting Iraqi casualties?
How dare you, sir? Doncha know that it's a non-standard practice. Thus, at the end of this month we will hear no end of celebrations that "only" 25 or 30 US soldiers were killed, while the killing of close to 200 Iraqi army and police will go - well - without comment.....
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NeoConsSuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 09:04 AM
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9. And that's what makes me sick of my country.
If there were no American casualties, then the approval ratings for going to war would be sky high. 50,000 brown people dead? Who cares.

I don't watch TV much, but of the few news shows I did watch, the Democrats all bemoan the loss of American life. NOT ONCE have I heard an American politician display any sadness over the loss of Iraqi lives killed in this "war of liberation".

Any one in Congress who voted for this war (Dem or Repub) should be brought before the Hague. And following them should be our corporate media.
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Dhalgren Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 09:23 AM
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11. Dennis Kucinich
regularly speaks of the horror our nation is perpetrating upon the Iraqi people. He always includes Iraqis in the tole of this idiotic war.
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saigon68 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 11:02 AM
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15. Don't Forget the innocent civilians hosed by indiscriminate shooting
I have seen in almost all of these incidents, who ever is able has a "MAD MINUTE" causing even more casualties.

Any other Vet can explain what a "MAD MINUTE" is-----

Thanks Chimpanzee YOU motherfucker.
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markses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 08:22 AM
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5. Leap Year in Iraq
By the end of the month, there will be 35-40 (and maybe more) American soldiers - young men and women in their prime of life, healthy, with families, friends and colleagues, full of love and laughter - who will be dead. Dead. Because of this war. Almost a guarantee at this point. These will be the February dead - the first February dead, and one can only hope the only February dead.

Think of them now, nervously fingering a trigger, or relaxing on a berm, or playing soccer with some kids, or reading a magazine. See them sitting in their cots, or scanning the deadly horizon, or writing a letter. They will be dead before the end of the month. LOOK INTO THEIR FACES. Sad vision.

The motherfucker hasn't scarfed them up yet, so their eyes still light up the desert, their boots still mark the city streets with a history of movement. But the motherfucker has its days and nights, its hours and its averages. The motherfucker says one thing:

TIME IS ON MY SIDE.
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DoYouEverWonder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 08:33 AM
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6. Here are a few of Bu$h's accomplishments from the last few days



Wissam Ali, age seven, is given a drink of water by an Iraqi policeman at a hospital in Hillah, Iraq after he was injured when two explosives-laden trucks were detonated outside a Polish military camp in Hillah, killing both his parents, south of Baghdad Wednesday Feb. 18, 2004.



Wissam Ali, right, aged 7, and his sister Gezek, 6 months old, are treated at a hospital in Hillah, Iraq.




Pvt. Bryan Nicholas Spry is shown in this undated photo provided by his family. Spry, who entered the Army three weeks after graduating in June, 2003, from Kent County (Md.) High, died while serving in Iraq, the military announced Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2004, in a news release. Spry was killed Friday, Feb. 13, 2004, when his vehicle rolled into a water-filled ditch.
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saigon68 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 12:26 PM
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16. Picture to go w name
Sad
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UpInArms Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 09:11 AM
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10. I am so sorry
for all of the losses - to all of the families and friends - for all of the destroyed and missing futures that this mal-administration has caused.

:cry:
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Mari333 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 09:42 AM
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12. The HUMVEES with non re enforced steel doors
and when the kids in the trucks sit in them and an explosion occurs as they pass by, they are killed and maimed. Because the doors are not re enforced with steel.
If they are going to stick our kids over there for no damn reason, they could at least protect them.
I screamed all day on the phone yesterday at Congress. this has to stop. At least demand they have safe doors on the goddamn Humvees.
Another family will now have a car drive into their driveway with 2 military personnel giving them the news.
and for what.
Nothing.
When the phone doesnt ring and no one drives into my driveway, each day, I sigh that we made it through another day.
Please vote ABB. This is all thats important now. Get Bush out.

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RememberWellstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 10:05 AM
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13. Bushs' war.
Poppy and the drunk punk can't get enough blood...and we're paying for this Imperialism. Stupid, it's just stupid.
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catmandu57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 10:11 AM
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14. We're at 546 dead, but,
I looked at Lunaville and in the last week the number of wounded jumped by 47. The wounded soldiers, although not all take a person out have to be piling up, every person taken off the line makes it that much more dangerous for those left.

This sucks big green ones.
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