Roadside Bomb Blasts Kill 3 U.S. Soldiers in Iraq

[LynnTheDem]

Separate roadside bomb attacks around Baghdad have killed three American soldiers, the U.S. military said on Tuesday.
It said one soldier was killed in a blast in Baghdad on Monday afternoon, and another died of his wounds after an explosion on Monday evening.

In a third attack, near Baghdad, another soldier was killed late on Monday when his convoy was targeted.

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=WNHVM1VBKISO2CRBAELCFEY?type=topNews&storyID=6164643

That's 10 dead for the day. 4 more and we hit 1000 dead US troops in Iraq.

http://icasualties.org/oif/

[Qanisqineq]

1. good freaking lord

10 today, that makes 12 in the last 48 hours, and about 16 this month (which is only 7 days old)?

PLEASE MAKE IT ALL STOP!!

Bush, you fucking bastard, go to hell.

-- the wife of a soldier

[LynnTheDem]

3. so far...

that's 18 in the past 7 days

More US soldiers dead already in 2004 than in 2003; more US soldiers killed AFTER the capture of Saddam Hussein than before; and MORE US SOLDIERS DEAD IN IRAQ than died in the FIRST FOUR YEARS OF VIETNAM.

Vietnam went on for a decade; Iraq's only been 18 months...

--Also the wife of a soldier (and aunt to another now in Iraq)

[Qanisqineq]

6. I hope your nephew/niece makes it home safely

My husband spent 10 months there and is dreading his return in 2005. What a freaking mess.

[Judi Lynn]

5. Do you think they are releasing the info. on deaths which happened

last week, during the Rep. convention, and were surpressed to avoid raining on their parade? If I'm not mistaken, some DU'ers here were saying it was odd that nothing seemed to happen in Iraq or Afghanistan all WEEK........

You know they are more than capable of lying to us about ANYTHING, and wouldn't hesistate, if it aided their interests.

It does seem fairly unusual that so many people at once have been killed, as soon as we enter the week after?

[bluestateguy]

2. I believe that puts us at 996 now

Get ready America, we are about to officially be in the first war since Vietnam with deaths in the thousands.

[ze_dscherman]

4. Updated to five dead since Monday, fixed link

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Guerrillas attacked U.S. troops in Baghdad's sprawling Shi'ite Sadr City slum district with rocket-propelled grenades on Tuesday, killing one soldier and wounding two, the U.S. army said.
The attack followed four separate roadside bomb blasts on Monday that killed four U.S. soldiers.

The deaths will raise the official Pentagon U.S. death toll to at least 993 since the start of the war in Iraq.

The U.S. military said one soldier was killed in a blast in Baghdad on Monday afternoon, and another died of his wounds after an explosion on Monday evening.



In a third attack, near Baghdad, a soldier was killed late on Monday when his convoy was targeted. And in Qayarrah, near Mosul, one soldier was killed in a blast on the same day.

http://news.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=6165048

If you delete the sequence starting with ;jsessionid and continue with the sequence that starts with question mark, your link will work!

[leftchick]

7. CNN: 11 Dead Monday. Total of 997 in aWol*s War....

CNN actually spent several minutes on the story as well. RIP soldiers... :(