U.S. Troops Among Nearly 50 Dead in Iraq

[Omaha Steve]

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U.S. Troops Among Nearly 50 Dead in Iraq
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Aug 12, 7:52 PM (ET)

By ROBERT H. REID

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Police found a dozen bodies trapped in a grate in the Tigris River, and a roadside bomb killed two U.S. soldiers on a foot patrol south of Baghdad Saturday as nearly 50 violent deaths were reported across Iraq.

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki banned a Kurdish extremist party from operating in Baghdad in a move seen largely as a gesture to Turkey, which had threatened to send troops across the border to destroy the group's bases in northern Iraq.


A U.S. military Stryker vehicles form a convoy down a main highway , in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Aug. 12, 2006. U.S. forces raided a funeral gathering and detained 60 men suspected of links with an al-Qaida cell blamed for a spate of car bomb attacks in Baghdad, the U.S. military said Saturday. Meanwhile, U.S. commanders are rushing nearly 12,000 American and Iraqi troops into the capital. The military has not said how many reinforcements have arrived in Baghdad, but some soldiers of the Army's 172nd Stryker Brigade have been seen on the city's streets.(AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)


Also Saturday, a state commission said nearly 30 top officials of the past two governments have been ordered to appear in court to answer allegations of corruption. They include former ministers of defense, labor and electricity, the commission said.

The 12 bodies were found in Suwayrah, 25 miles south of Baghdad, at one of a series of metal grates fixed in the river to block debris, Mamoun al-Rubaie of the Kut city morgue said.

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. Jamming democracy down someone's throat is hard work.

Be patient. They'll calm down.










When pigs fly.

[DoYouEverWonder]

2. Turn on the fucking electric and water

and then get the hell out of the way and things would calm down even quicker.

[malaise]

4. Leaving would be even better

everything Bush touches is destroyed. Why doesn't he do the fugging world a favour and choke on a pretzel

[seemslikeadream]

3. boldness on the battlefield produces swift & relatively bloodless victory

"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_Casual_Observer]

5. This was a lost "cause" years ago, yet they go on & on.

This same shit will still be going on 10 years from now. From now on it will be about our "vital ME interests". It will transcend political party, if any parties are left by then.

[seemslikeadream]

6. I will bet you the best dinner in the gaslight district of San Diego

"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)

[The_Casual_Observer]

8. I guess we all got "gas lighted".

[cliss]

11. Exactly.

This will NEVER stop, unless we put a stop to it.

Just like Viet Nam. Public opposition finally got us out of there, at long last.

This is the most important quote about Iraq:

"The people who got us into this mess cannot get us out".

[otohara]

7. Wouldn't It Be Kinda Stupid For 60 "Suspects"

of al-Qaida link to be at the same funeral?

Winning hearts and minds at funerals and weddings.

[Drum]

9. "rushing nearly 12,000 American and Iraqi troops into the capital."

We've been hearing this for a week, and by now it's "some soldiers" of the Stryker Brigade have been seen on the streets. Oh Mr. Rumsfeld, what happened to that agile and effective force? Jeez!

[tabasco]

10. RIP, Troops!

:patriot:

More names on the wall. For nothing.