3 More Soldiers Die in Iraq

[jayfish]

Source: AP Via Excite News

Mar 12, 2:37 PM (ET)

By RYAN LENZ

(AP) A bus that was hit by a roadside bomb is towed away near Nasiriyah, about 320 kilometers (200...
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BAGHDAD (AP) - Three American soldiers were killed in a rocket attack in southern Iraq on Wednesday, bringing to 12 the number of soldiers who have been killed in Iraq over the past three days.

With the overall U.S. military death toll in Iraq nearing 4,000, the latest killings mark a significant rise in deadly attacks against Americans.

At least 3,987 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an AP count. The figure includes eight military civilians.

Navy Lt. Patrick Evans, a military spokesman, told The Associated Press that three soldiers were killed Wednesday in a rocket attack on Combat Outpost Adder near Nasiriyah, about 200 miles southeast of Baghdad. Two other soldiers were wounded.

The attack came a day after an American soldier died when a roadside bomb hit his patrol near Diwaniyah, 80 miles south of Baghdad.

Eight soldiers were killed in a pair of bomb attacks on Monday, the heaviest single day of U.S. casualties since September.

Three of those soldiers died in a roadside bombing in Diyala, a violent province where al-Qaida in Iraq has been active.

The five others were killed while on foot patrol in central Baghdad. A suicide bomber approached them and detonated his explosives vest. Three Americans and an Iraqi interpreter were wounded.

The latest deaths came as a group of Iraqi tribal leaders, former politicians and intellectuals appealed Wednesday to the United Nations to take control of Iraq in a move they say would help U.S. troops leave the beleaguered country.

Read more: http://apnews.excite.com/article/20080312/D8VC27500.html

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Now remember boys and girls, John McLame was right about the surge all along. :eyes:

Jay

[hadrons]

1. The downward spiral continues ....

RIP

[saigon68]

6. "Bring Em On" shouted the AWOL CHIMPANZEE

[lebkuchen]

14. Try working on an army base when this happens

It's like living in a fucking vaccuum. Nobody seems to give a shit.

[MaineDem]

2. I'm so sick of this

Condolences to their families.

[TooBigaTent]

3. Please do not distract us from the all-important family war being waged by

HC and BO. Let everyone who is wound up in the "game" get their jollies. The campaign won't last forever.

And the war will still be there, for many more years, regardless of who sits in the oval office.

[democrank]

4. I could bend over and cry. It`s awful.

~PEACE~

[alcibiades_mystery]

5. Welcome to the Desert of the Real...

...

[Binka]

7. Ah Fuck!

:cry:

[shireen]

8. very sad. infuriating. Each life lost meant the world to his/her family and friends.

The cruelty of this war is overwhelming.

:cry:

[tachyon]

9. In just a week it will be FIVE YEARS since * invaded a sovereign country.

And 4,000 Americans dead in vain.

[NewJeffCT]

10. the McCain/Bush/Lieberman plan was a smashing success, though

so, expect this to make no news whatsoever.

[Journeyman]

11. We went 9 days with only 2 deaths this month. . .

now 12 in the past three days. It just shows how volatile that land remains and how dependent we are on the continued goodwill of the various warring factions. If the Mehdi return to the fray in force, or any of the other countless "deals" we've made in the last six months unravel, there'll be hell to pay on all sides as this catastroph*ck deteriorates rapidly again.

[pfitz59]

12. Bump!

We can't let this slide!

[Massachusetts]

13. RIP Troops

FUBAR!