US military says 4 soldiers killed in Baghdad

[Bhaisahab]

Source: AP via Yahoo News

BAGHDAD – The U.S. military says that four soldiers were killed in Baghdad on the eve of the American withdrawal from Iraq's cities.

The military says the four served with the Multi-National Division-Baghdad but did not provide further details pending notification of their families.

In a statement on Tuesday, the U.S. military said the four were died on Monday as a "result of combat related injuries."

Iraqi forces assumed formal control of Baghdad and other cities Tuesday after American troops handed over security in urban areas in a defining step toward ending the U.S. combat role in the country. Iraq has declared June 30 as "National Sovereignty Day."

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090630/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iraq

[dipsydoodle]

1. BBC Link

Four US soldiers died in Baghdad from injuries sustained in fighting on Monday, the US military has said.

US forces withdrew from Iraqi towns and cities ahead of a midnight deadline on Monday, handing over security duties to Iraqi police and military forces.

There has been a recent rise in violence with several large bombings targeting markets.

More than 4,300 US soldiers have died in Iraq since the US-led invasion of the country in 2003.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/8125975.stm

[saigon68]

2. WHO will be the last to die for Cheney's Crusade to kill Muslims for OIL?

But his TOOL lives on




"Bring Em On"

[amyrose2712]

3. Screw that I want to here about M. Jackson!

:sarcasm: just in case.

[lyonn]

12. Disgusting, right? All day MJ.....

Yahoo news mentioned the celebrations in Baghdad over the fact that the U.S. troops were out and they were given the opportunity to make their own mistakes - not follow the U.S. plan of the day (war). Heard they had decorated their vehicles, etc..

Our troops have gone over and above what should have been required of them to restore some civility to Iraq. They are worse off now when it comes to basic needs of people. The U.S. has not concentrated on improving the living conditions in that country.

Yes, our troops need to hang out at the borders maybe - at the most, and leave the running of Iraq to the Iraqis. Geeze, what a concept!!??

It's so terribly sad to think those soldiers will be some of the last to die for a losing cause........

[eringer]

4. Bush's War Comes to an End

What do you expect when the NRA made sure that everyone in Irag continued to have the right to bear arms after our invasion giving each household permission to have an AK-47 and two clips of bullets.

[democrank]

5. Rest in peace, soldiers.

**4,321**

http://icasualties.org/Iraq/index.aspx

[Mari333]

6. they should all come home from both occupations

not one american soldier should be left standing anywhere in those clusterf*cks.

[customerserviceguy]

7. Agreed

The Shia-Sunni thing looks like what Europe went through five hundred or so years ago with the Protestants battling the Catholics, they needed to do a lot of killing before they decided that it was something they needed to get past.

[dalaigh lllama]

13. I've thought that, too. They should issue a Simultaneum

I've been reading up on the idiocies in Europe over Protestant vs. Catholic in the 1600's, and ran across something that seems to have finally helped cool things down: the Simultaneum. After they exhausted people, money, and land with the constant back and forth of forcing people to declare for one or the other faith, someone had the brainstorm of making the different sects share the local church. Called the Simultaneum, Protestants got the church for their services at a certain time, and Catholics got the same church for their services at a different time. I'd never heard of this before, but they still do this. Not sure how widespread it is, but we were recently in Alsace and there was a Simultaneum church next to the hotel we stayed at in Strasbourg, and another one in a small village we visited in Alsace. I told my husband it was like medieval "bussing" -- after everyone got used to being together, the animosity faded.

Maybe they should have more simultaneums -- get the Sunni and the Shia in the same mosques.

[CherokeeDem]

8. This Has to Stop....

Please bring these soldiers home...they continue to die for the greed of Bush/Cheney and it simply has to end. They shouldn't be sacrificing their lives for an unjust cause. My heart breaks for their families and friends and for all of us.

May they rest in peace.

[proud2BlibKansan]

9. Not many noticed last week

But the Democrats voted to continue funding the war while the Republicans voted against the funding.

First time ever I agreed with the GOP.

[Flaneur]

14. Yeah, funny that. But not ha-ha funny. n/t

[Flaneur]

15. Yeah, funny that. But not ha-ha funny. n/t

[Captain Hilts]

10. Shit. I'm glad I donated platelets at Walter Reed. I hope it helps. nt

[sabra]

11. k & r

:-(

[New Dawn]

16. Dying from "combat related injuries" is Pentagon-speak for "killed in action".