Insurgent attacks kill four US troops in Iraq

[sabra]

http://wireservice.wired.com/wired/story.asp?section=Breaking&storyId=1153458&tw=wn_wire_story


Insurgent attacks kill four US troops in Iraq

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A roadside bomb killed three U.S. soldiers on Wednesday and another died of his wounds in a separate shooting attack, the U.S. military said on Thursday.

[Cooley Hurd]

1. Rest in Peace...

:(

[alcibiades_mystery]

2. Welcome to the Desert of the Real...

....

[rodeodance]

3. more lost souls for that elusive 'noble" cause!

[rodeodance]

4. 3rd suggestion: Demand from the Pres to know WHY troops are dying.

This was posted on DU yesterday--
The third one--Demand from the Pres to know WHY troops are dying.

Wed Feb-01-06 09:31 AM
Original message
Great advice from a most unlikely source...Scarborough


Edited on Wed Feb-01-06 09:34 AM by Atman

On Hardblogger...

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"Listening to the chatter from my perch on Capitol Hill makes it clear that the Democratic Party is in dire need of guidance. So here is a Republican’s humble suggestion on how to gain traction with the majority of American voters.

Hammer home these three themes over the next ten months.

1. There is a culture of corruption in Republican-run Washington.
2. There are record deficits, record debts and record government waste in Republican-run Washington.
3. Soldiers are dying across the world for reasons that are still not clear three years later.

Keep it simple, stupid. And tell Ted Kennedy to keep his head down in 2006."

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Wow. I've never, ever agree with Joe. He's a dick. But on this one, I gotta agree with him.

KEEP IT SIMPLE.

[rodeodance]

6. DU thread for above

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2430728#2430930

[0007]

5. Pile em high and then higher

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

[leftchick]

7. Make that Five Dead...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Five American servicemen were killed in Iraq in separate attacks, the U.S. military said Thursday, including three soldiers who died in a roadside bomb blast.

The soldiers were on patrol when the bomb exploded south of Baghdad. A fourth soldier died from wounds sustained in a small-arms fire attack in the capital's southwest, the military said. A U.S. Marine was fatally wounded during combat near the western city of Fallujah.

All five U.S. servicemen were killed Wednesday, the military said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/iraq_soldiers_killed

:cry:

[0007]

8. leftchick sez add one more to the pile

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

[saigon68]

12. "BRING EM ON" shouted the AWOL CHIMPANZEE

As his mommy fed him with his bottle

[tabasco]

9. RIP Troops. More unnecessary deaths.

Isn't it amazing how republicans claim our troops want to stay in Iraq until the "job is done" (whatever that means). I'm still military and I don't know one soldier that was ever in combat that didn't want to be someplace else. Maybe they are talking about the generals that never leave the Green Zone. The troops that have to go out into town on a regular basis want to come home NOW! But the republicns want the war to go on forever because their client corporations are making a LOT of money. A LOT of that money returns to republican coffers too.

Republicans will never end this war. I'm starting to wonder if the Democrats will either. It will probably be WE THE PEOPLE that ends this war by taking to the streets.

Morale in our military is rock bottom, thanks to the incompetent leadership of Bush and Rumsfeld. I've been military for a long time and I've always been a liberal. I hope my fellow troops that formerly supported Bush have learned a lesson. The republicans consider you cannon fodder for their wars for corporate profits.

Bush cowtows to dictators and ignores the American People.


This tragedy will continue until we destroy the corporate cabal and punish them for their crimes.

[saigon68]

11. ends this war by taking to the streets.

The sheep will be asleep for a long time

As long as there is no draft they will continue to watch amerikan idolatry and dream of winning the lottery

[democrank]

10. More heartbreak.

Spreading freedom? Right.

[0007]

13. bbtft

[rodeodance]

14. Insurgent attacks kill five US troops in Iraq

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060202/ts_nm/iraq_usa_soldiers_dc&printer=1;_ylt=Ar_sHOUMIB_f72WV0xzPOPpg.3QA;_ylu=X3oDMTA3MXN1bHE0BHNlYwN0bWE-

Insurgent attacks kill five US troops in Iraq

Thu Feb 2, 9:59 AM ET

Rebel attacks killed four U.S. soldiers and a marine on Wednesday, the U.S. military said on Thursday.

A roadside bomb killed three soldiers south of Baghdad on Wednesday and another died of his wounds in a separate shooting attack, a statement said.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

15. Have we (won) yet?? I see we have won the hatred of yet

another country and its people.... what else are the repugs good at????

[acmavm]

16. Well, Rummy the Dummy did say that he couldn't explain the lull in

casualties and that they might pick up again. He just didn't know.

He is so blase about the deaths of American kids. Of course they aren't of 'their class' so it's not that big a deal.

[rodeodance]

17. I swear--that man belongs in an attic.

[wildwww2]

19. As long as that attic was in a prison somewhere. I would agree with that.

Peace
Wildman
Al Gore is My President

[shraby]

20. They probably kept all the American

servicemen/women at their bases until after the State of the Union speech so there would be no bad news out of Iraq to overshadow Bush's moment of glory.

[qanda]

18. So sad

[IndianaGreen]

21. Total 2,248 US casualties as of Feb 1.

U.S. Deaths Confirmed By The DoD: 2242

Reported U.S. Deaths Pending DoD Confirmation: 6
Total 2248

DoD Confirmation List
Latest Coalition Fatality: Feb 01, 2006

[abex]

22. let us hope that the next generation of pre-recruits ponders the fate of

those who've gone before. And choose a better fate for themselves.

[Binka]

23. The Shitty Economy Is No Accident It Creates A De Facto Draft

It is a tragedy. STOP THE WAR NOW!

"Am I alive Mom?"

[HysteryDiagnosis]

24. How convenient when you are touting retention rates..... what do

some people have to go back to????? Not a gd thing.

[Binka]

25. Even Savages Do Not Eat Their Children

This is what we have come to:

Midnight is the hour when men desperately seek to obey the eleventh commandment, "Thou shalt not get caught." According to the ethic of midnight, the cardinal sin is to be caught and the cardinal virtue is to get by. It is all right to lie, but one must lie with real finesse. It is all right to steal, if one is so dignified that, if caught, the charge becomes embezzlement, not robbery. It is permissible even to hate, if one so dresses his hating in the garments of love that hating appears to be loving. The Darwinian concept of the survival of the fittest has been substituted by a philosophy of the survival of the slickest. This mentality has brought a tragic breakdown of moral standards, and the midnight of moral degeneration deepens. MLK 1963

[saigon68]

26. Well Put

The man most admired in the ring is the one who "Out-Slicked" his opponents

Look at Trump--- Look at Walton