Reuters: Four U.S. soldiers killed west of Baghdad

[Eugene]

Four U.S. soldiers killed west of Baghdad
Wed Oct 18, 2006 2:16am ET

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Four U.S. soldiers were killed when their vehicle
was struck by a roadside bomb west of Baghdad on Tuesday, the U.S.
military said on Wednesday.

The U.S. military did not provide any more details.

More than 60 U.S. soldiers have been killed so far in October, a pace,
that if it continues, would make the month one of the deadliest for U.S.
forces in Iraq.

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Full article: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=newsOne&storyID=2006-10-18T061554Z_01_RAS529041_RTRUKOC_0_US-IRAQ-USA-SOLDIERS.xml

[Skittles]

1. this will be addressed "AFTER THE ELECTION"

I am disgusted beyond belief

[saigon68]

2. It is disgusting

The Bush criminals now have almost 60% of the sheep believing that torture of POWs is the only way to prevent Terra


And Turds like Limpmann are on their knees servicing the Chimpanzee

[Skittles]

3. the disregard for our troops is disgraceful

I can't believe these bastards wrap themselves in God and the flag and treat our troops like a bunch of disposable numbers

[LynnTheDem]

9. "When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag"

"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag."
-Huey Long

[bdamomma]

17. they just have no respect and no remorse

shameful just shameful, no respect for life whatsoever.

[Breeze54]

4. 4 US Soldiers BLOWN UP!!

:grr: :evilfrown:

Brings it to 62 just this month! Things are going 'swimmingly'.... :sarcasm:

Mutha fuckers!! :nuke:

[saigon68]

5. Steve Bell's take Look who's on the Reaper's shoulder

ITS THE CHIMP AND POODLE BLAIR

[Breeze54]

6. good pic, saigon68! Says it all!!

how are you doing?

Thanks!

[saigon68]

8. Still mocking the CHIMPANZEE

lol

SO MUCH DISRESPECT TO POST

SO lITTLE TIME

[saigon68]

26. Doing Good

The battle goes on

[0007]

13. Pile the bodies high and listen to Cheney sing his songs of glory

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

[Vexatious Ape]

7. The Coward of Crawford

uses the military like they were just an elaborate toy soldier set he found under the fucking X-mass tree.

[krispos42]

10. 5 more killed the same day, 9 total in 24 hours.

Hmmmm... more troops in Iraq PLUS even more troops in the populous hotbead of sectarian strife that is Baghdad EQUALS more attacks on our troops EQUALS more dean US troops.

Oh, wait, I forgot. Bush says that we're not inflaming the insurgengy, so it must be true, right? :sarcasm:

[saigon68]

11. It's 11 now

[krispos42]

20. Damn damn damm danm damn damn damn damn damn damn damn damn damn damn damn

Far far far to many.

[PassingFair]

12. 69 this month.

I feel like quitting my job and screaming in the streets.

WTF!

Are we living in crazy world?

[bdamomma]

18. I think many of us feel like doing that right now.

totally frustrating, these thugs in this regime must be ............................ oh, I better watch out I may be traced as and tracked on "thought crimes".

[Binka]

24. I'm Dying Because They Are Pressuring Ben To Go Back

We had a massive argument last night and I didn't sleep because I'm out of my mind. I'm so far away and I can't talk sense to him on the phone he is full of Marine propaganda and rage over V's death. If he goes back I am going to immolate myself on the steps of the WH.

When he started dating Danielle he promised her that he would never go back but their relationship isn't working because she is in WI and he is in CA, a long distance relationship is difficult people that age. Shit shit shit shit shit!

God Fucking Damnit Ben Wake Up!

[yellowcanine]

14. Damn, I am dying inside about this "stay the course" bullshit. I

graduated from high school in 1969. I went off to college with my nice little student deferment, (the last class to get them before the draft lottery was instituted). My best childhood friend went to Vietnam because he was not "college material". He was plenty smart, just not good at school work. He came back, thankfully, but our lives went different directions and I have lost contact with him. The only thing he would ever tell me about his experience in 'Nam was that it was "pretty fucked up." My whole life I have been running into 'Nam vets who have had trouble getting their lives together - alcoholics, homeless, spouse abuse, etc. The ones on the wall are the lucky ones. Do I have "survivor's guilt" about 'Nam and that is one reason the Iraq war upsets me so much? Yes I do. I am not ashamed to say it. I just cannot believe that we let another President lead us down the primrose path into this bullshit. Once again, the dead ones are the lucky ones. I talked to some nurses a while back who work at Walter Reed. They said that you would not believe how maimed these Iraq war survivors are. Multiple amputees, burns, sight and hearing loss, permanent brain damage. Bush should not get away with this. Somebody has to be accountable. I am dying inside.

[yellowcanine]

16. John Prine had it right here:

Flag Decal Heaven, by John Prine

While digesting Reader's Digest
In the back of a dirty book store,
A plastic flag, with gum on the back,
Fell out on the floor.
Well, I picked it up and I ran outside
Slapped it on my window shield,
And if I could see old Betsy Ross
I'd tell her how good I feel.

Chorus: But your flag decal won't get you
Into Heaven any more.
They're already overcrowded
From your dirty little war.
Now Jesus don't like killin'
No matter what the reason's for,
And your flag decal won't get you
Into Heaven any more.

Well, I went to the bank this morning
And the cashier he said to me,
"If you join the Christmas club
We'll give you ten of them flags for free."
Well, I didn't mess around a bit
I took him up on what he said.
And I stuck them stickers all over my car
And one on my wife's forehead.

Repeat Chorus:

Well, I got my window shield so filled
With flags I couldn't see.
So, I ran the car upside a curb
And right into a tree.
By the time they got a doctor down
I was already dead.
And I'll never understand why the man
Standing in the Pearly Gates said...

"But your flag decal won't get you
Into Heaven any more.
We're already overcrowded
From your dirty little war.
Now Jesus don't like killin'
No matter what the reason's for,
And your flag decal won't get you
Into Heaven any more."

[Skittles]

22. it is terrible

I'm a few years younger than you yc but I do remember the nightly body counts and that ridiculous lottery - as a child I remembered wondering HOW the hell these things came about, and what was the purpose of it all....it all seemed to make no sense to me. I started four years of military service the year the Vietnam war ended. What is kiling me now is I'm still not yet quite 50 and I am seeing it all over again. WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Binka]

25. When Ben Was At Bethesda I Saw Daily Horror

Ben has survivors guilt and rage because he lost his best buddy in Ramadi two weeks before V was coming home. I am going out of my head this morning. I am dying inside too. He is being pushed to go back in 07.

Don't go back Benjamin! Please!

[bdamomma]

15. cheney rumsfeld and bush and rove

can go to hell, mr cheney and rumsfeld say that the war is going well well mr cheney and rumsfeld your ass is not on the line. you weasels.

When are people going to challenge this a$$holes???????????? how many more have to die??? for lies.

[ckramer]

19. Gooooooood Morning Vietnam!

It looks like it by day...

[seemslikeadream]

21. HOW MANY MORE GEORGIE, HOW MANY MORE?

2506 "I'm waiting to hear the words 'I was wrong' Dick Morris, 4/9/03
Tue Jun 20th 2006, 03:59 PM
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/seemslikeadream/109


"Tommy Franks and the coalition forces have demonstrated the old axiom
that boldness on the battlefield produces swift and relatively
bloodless victory. The three-week swing through Iraq has utterly
shattered skeptics' complaints." (Fox News Channel's Tony Snow,
4/27/03)



"The only people who think this wasn't a victory are Upper Westside
liberals, and a few people here in Washington." (Charles Krauthammer,
Inside Washington, WUSA-TV, 4/19/03)



"I will bet you the best dinner in the gaslight district of San Diego
that military action will not last more than a week. Are you willing to
take that wager?" (Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly, 1/29/03)



"What's he going to talk about a year from now, the fact that the war
went too well and it's over? I mean, don't these things sort of lose
their--Isn't there a fresh date on some of these debate points?"
(MSNBC's Chris Matthews, speaking about Howard Dean--4/9/03)



"It is amazing how thorough the victory in Iraq really was in the
broadest context..... And the silence, I think, is that it's clear that
nobody can do anything about it. There isn't anybody who can stop him.
The Democrats can't oppose--cannot oppose him politically."
(Washington Post reporter Jeff Birnbaum-- Fox News Channel, 5/2/03)



"Now that the war in Iraq is all but over, should the people in
Hollywood who opposed the president admit they were wrong?"
(Fox News Channel's Alan Colmes, 4/25/03)



"I'm waiting to hear the words 'I was wrong' from some of the world's
most elite journalists, politicians and Hollywood types.... I just
wonder, who's going to be the first elitist to show the character to
say: 'Hey, America, guess what? I was wrong'? Maybe the White House
will get an apology, first, from the New York Times' Maureen Dowd. Now,
Ms. Dowd mocked the morality of this war....

"Do you all remember Scott Ritter, you know, the former chief U.N.
weapons inspector who played chief stooge for Saddam Hussein? Well, Mr.
Ritter actually told a French radio network that -- quote, "The United
States is going to leave Baghdad with its tail between its legs,
defeated." Sorry, Scott. I think you've been chasing the wrong tail,
again.

"Over the next couple of weeks when we find the chemical weapons this
guy was amassing, the fact that this war was attacked by the left and
so the right was so vindicated, I think, really means that the left is
going to have to hang its head for three or four more years."
(Fox News Channel's Dick Morris, 4/9/03)



"This has been a tough war for commentators on the American left. To
hope for defeat meant cheering for Saddam Hussein. To hope for victory
meant cheering for President Bush. The toppling of Mr. Hussein, or at
least a statue of him, has made their arguments even harder to defend.
Liberal writers for ideologically driven magazines like The Nation and
for less overtly political ones like The New Yorker did not predict a
defeat, but the terrible consequences many warned of have not happened.
Now liberal commentators must address the victory at hand and confront
an ascendant conservative juggernaut that asserts United States might
can set the world right."
(New York Times reporter David Carr, 4/16/03)



"Well, the hot story of the week is victory.... The Tommy Franks-Don
Rumsfeld battle plan, war plan, worked brilliantly, a three-week war
with mercifully few American deaths or Iraqi civilian deaths.... There
is a lot of work yet to do, but all the naysayers have been humiliated
so far.... The final word on this is, hooray."
(Fox News Channel's Morton Kondracke, 4/12/03)



"Shouldn't the prime minister and all of us who thought the
war was hasty and dangerous and wrongheaded admit that we were wrong? I
mean, with the pictures of those Iraqis dancing in the streets, hauling
down statues of Saddam Hussein and gushing their thanks to the
Americans, isn't it clear that President Bush and Britain's Tony Blair
were right all along? If we believe it's a good thing that Hussein's
regime has been dismantled, aren't we hypocritical not to acknowledge
Bush's superior judgment?... Why can't those of us who thought the war
was a bad idea (or, at any rate, a premature one) let it go now and
just join in celebrating the victory wrought by our magnificent
military forces?"
(Washington Post's William Raspberry, 4/14/03)



"This will be no war -- there will be a fairly brief and ruthless
military intervention.... The president will give an order. attack] will be rapid, accurate and dazzling.... It will be greeted by
the majority of the Iraqi people as an emancipation. And I say, bring
it on."
(Christopher Hitchens, in a 1/28/03 debate-- cited in the Observer,
3/30/03)



"Speaking to the U.N. Security Council last week, Secretary of State
Colin Powell made so strong a case that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein
is in material breach of U.N. resolutions that only the duped, the dumb
and the desperate could ignore it."
(Cal Thomas, syndicated column, 2/12/03)




Until the philosophy,
Which holds one race superior
And another inferior,
Is finally and permanently
Discredited and abandoned,
Everywhere is war.

WAR

Until there is no longer first class
Or second class citizens of any nation.
Until the color of a man's skin,
Is of no more significance than
The color of his eyes,
I've got to say "war".

WAR

That until the basic human rights,
Are equally guaranteed to all,
Without regard to race,
I'll say "war"

Until that day the dream of lasting peace,
World-citizenship and the rule of
International morality will remain
Just a fleeting illusion to be pursued,
But never obtained.
And everywhere is war.

Until the ignoble and unhappy regime
Which holds all of us through,
Child-abuse, yeah, child-abuse yeah,
Sub-human bondage has been toppled,
Utterly destroyed,
Everywhere is war.

War in the east,
War in the west,
War up north,
War down south,
There is war,
And the rumors of war.

Until that day,
the african continent will know no peace
There is no continent,
Which will know peace.

Children, children.

Fight!

We find it necessary.
We know we will win.
We have confidence in the victory
Of good over evil
Of good over evil

Fight the real enemy!

Bob Marley

[Judi Lynn]

23. Powerful images.How respectful IS Bush to sneak the fallen soldiers

in under the cover of night so the living don't have to "worry" their "pretty little heads" about them?

Why don't more Americans ask themselves why the pResident doesn't want anyone to see the evidence Americans are being killed in his bogus war?

I hope your wonderful post will catch some lurking right-wingers by surprise, and they'll stop to realize how little respect they deserve, themselves, for supporting this ruthless, filthy halfwit.