Four teachers slain northeast of Baghdad, Six U.S. troops die; mortars wou

[Rose Siding]

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Gunmen killed four teachers Monday near Balad Ruz, northeast of Baghdad, an Iraqi official said.

The teachers were traveling to work in a minibus Monday morning when the gunmen stopped their vehicle, said an official with the Diyala Joint Coordination Center.

The gunmen forced seven teachers and the minibus driver from the vehicle and shot four of the teachers. The other instructors and the driver were allowed to leave, the official said.
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Meanwhile, four British soldiers were wounded early Monday in a mortar attack on a military outpost in southern Iraq, said a British military source in the southern city of Basra....

Two British soldiers died Saturday in a roadside bomb attack north of Basra, a British military source said.

In other violence, six U.S. troops were killed Sunday in three separate incidents in Iraq, the U.S. military said Monday.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/05/15/iraq.main/index.html

[Botany]

1. Why don't you tell the good news from Iraq.

We have caused hell on earth.

[LuckyStrykes]

2. Vietnam ended

the draft army, Iraq is going to end the army.

[TomInTib]

4. If Iraq doesn't end the military, it will insure that it will never be...

what it was going into this outrage..

And welcome to DU, LuckyStrykes!

[arewenotdemo]

3. Cheerleader-in-Chief's got more families to hug

"And there's only one person who hugs the mothers and the widows, the wives and the kids on the death of their loved ones. Others hug, but having committed the troops, I've got an additional responsibility to hug, and that's me, and I know what it's like."

[deadparrot]

5. RIP.

...

[0007]

6. Pile 'em high

Grass Bush

Pile the bodies high in Austerlitz and Waterloo Iraq
Shovel them under and let me work--
I am the grass; bush; I cover all.

And pile them high in Gettyburg Baghdad
And pile them high in Ypres and Vedum Mossoul and Al Fallaujah

Two years, ten years, and passengers ask the conductor:
What place is this?

I am the grass bush.
Let me work.

Carl Sandburg


Support the war - Donate a Son a daughter
The GOP working for a better America
God Bless America

[TheCowsCameHome]

7. Never mind he irrelevant stuff. How's Halliburton's stock doing today?

[cliss]

8. My God, the deaths seem to be

going up. Are there any recent statistics? I know April was a horrific month. It seems that May is going to be as bad, if not worse.