CENTCOM: TWO MARINES KILLED IN AR RAMADI

[bluestateguy]

http://www.centcom.mil/CENTCOMNews/Casualty_Report.asp?CasualtyReport=20050422.txt

CAMP FALLUJAH, Iraq – Two Marines assigned to the 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward), were killed April 20 when an improvised explosive device detonated while they conducted combat operations in Ar Ramadi, Iraq.

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That brings the number up to 1565

[SmileyBoy]

1. Oh dammit...

This has got to stop, seriously. It has to stop. How many more must die before America opens its eyes??

[benburch]

2. How many must die?

Look at the Wall in DC. That is how many.

[tinanator]

5. apparently that isnt enough

otherwise we wouldnt be begging for more.

[Teaser]

13. We should start working on a memorial.

Not a website. Set up a nonprofit designed to document and memorialized (as a monument somewhere) the dead in Iraq. Soldiers and otherwise, where possible.

[leftchick]

3. Ramadi is a MESS and it gets worse by the minute *graphic*

First, RIP marines :(

I have been seeing photos like this from Ramadi for a very long time. It must be totally out of control....

First the US troops firing and killing 3 Iraqis today.
A little trigger happy and nervous because of yesterday?



People surround a burned out car after shooting errupted in the center of Ramadi, Iraq, Thursday, April 21, 2005, involving US troops and leaving two Iraqis dead, including one child. Witnesses and a doctor of the main hospital in Ramadi reported, that three cars were set on fire during the shooting. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)



A boy lies dead in a street in Ramadi, Iraq on Thursday, April 21, 2005. His body was found in a street near three smoldering cars after gunfire erupted in downtown Ramadi 115 kilometers (70 miles) west of Baghdad. The U.S. military had no immediate information on the incident. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)




Iraqi men carry the body of someone killed after shooting erupted in the center of Ramadi, 115 km (45 miles) west of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, April 21, 2005, involving US troops that reportedly left two Iraqis dead, including one child. According to local witnesses and a doctor at the main hospital in Ramadi, three cars were set on fire during the shooting. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)


BTW... there are no stories covering any of these events, even the death of the US servicemen that I can find. :(

BRING THE TROOPS HOME!

[AquaBritt]

4. This is sick!

Its amazing we are not hearing about this and people are not doing more to stop these pointless deaths!! SICK thats all I can say!

[tinanator]

6. imagine how many Iraqis died in the same time period?

But we're there to protect them.

[AquaBritt]

7. Its just all wrong!

There is nothing right or OK with any of this and it blows my mind that people do not see this. I have this same argument with my Right winged family and I just can not understand how they could think this war is called for.

[Wright Patman]

8. Are they independently wealthy?

And, if they are, are they invested in the Carlyle Group?

Because that's the only way one can be for this, even aside from the military blunder it has been.

It is also a colossal financial blunder which has added $300 billion (and counting) to our already unpayable debt.

And if it is not a blunder, the people at the top of the U.S. government are deliberately attempting (with great success) to destroy the middle class of this country.

[tinanator]

12. Its Freeper logic, not a dime's worth of difference

pretending they have a stake in the future of Iraq, we're the good guys, it's for their own good, all of it, completely ludicrous and ignorant of reality. This is what happens when you base your understanding on the network news instead of history.
Pure, unadulterated insanity trying to pretend its common sense.
All working in favor of the Bushcorp agenda. They should be ashamed.
Unless they are in fact all truly covert operators trying to derail the discussion, that I could respect.

[alcuno]

11. Welcome to DU, AquaBritt.

I hate to sound so callous, but one or two American deaths per day has become so routine that people may hear it but it doesn't register. We're becoming pretty immune to any outrage over it.

[DeaconBlues]

9. Killed and forgotten

Just part of the callousness that is the Bush era

[Rainscents]

10. None of this is going to stop... We are going into Iran next!

Mother of one of her son just got home Iraq and he was told, next assiement is he is going to where he will be fighting Iranians (I heard this on Randi Rhodes today). This is soooooooooooo sick. Our goverment and the media is covering all of this informations from us.