(AFP) Four more US soldiers die in Iraq (12 in 3/days)

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Four more US soldiers die in Iraq
(AFP)

29 August 2006


BAGHDAD - The US military on Tuesday announced the deaths of four US soldiers, bringing to 12 the number of troops that have died over three days.

Two soldiers died in separate incidents from wounds received in ”enemy action” on Sunday in the western Al Anbar province of Iraq, according to a statement from coalition headquarters.

The two casualties brought to 10 the number of servicemen to have died as a result of wounds sustained on Sunday in insurgent attacks, with eight of them reported dead in and around Baghdad.

In another incident, a soldier died on Sunday from non-hostile causes, a statement said without offering details......

http://www.khaleejtimes.ae/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/focusoniraq/2006/August/focusoniraq_August166.xml§ion=focusoniraq&col=

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1. Jim Lehrer news Hours just said it was 5 that were killed today.

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6. k

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2. 2,631,

Earlier Tuesday the military had said another US soldier died after his Humvee utility vehicle rolled into an Iraqi canal.

A statement said a National Guardsman from Nebraska died as a result of injuries sustained a week earlier when the Humvee flipped into water near Camp Anaconda outside Balad, northern Iraq.

“Two others were injured in the accident (and) are still undergoing treatment for their injuries,” it added.

The latest fatalities brought the US military’s losses in Iraq since the March 2003 invasion to 2,631, according to an AFP count based on Pentagon figures.

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[LostinVA]

11. FR is lonesome without you n/t

[NeoConsSuck]

4. CNN.COM says..

Bruce Sprinsteen denies marriage breakup rumors.

You can tell it's getting close to election.

[tanyev]

14. And GMA just promised to give us the latest updates on John Mark Karr.

[democrank]

5. Every single day....

a little more heartbreak.

[xchrom]

7. mission accomplished.

these liberators and finders of weapons of mass destruction will never have to lift their burden again.

[UpInArms]

8. See this as a "troop drawdown" here of 12 in 3 days!

Pukes will be claiming victory any moment now :sarcasm:

[0007]

9. Stack 'em higher and then start a new

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

[Olney Blue]

12. Oh no.

:cry:

[ckramer]

13. Bush and Saddam Should Both Stand Trial,

Says Nuremberg Prosecutor.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 25 (OneWorld) - A chief prosecutor of Nazi war crimes at Nuremberg has said George W. Bush should be tried for war crimes along with Saddam Hussein. Benjamin Ferenccz, who secured convictions for 22 Nazi officers for their work in orchestrating the death squads that killed more than 1 million people, told OneWorld both Bush and Saddam should be tried for starting "aggressive" wars--Saddam for his 1990 attack on Kuwait and Bush for his 2003 invasion of Iraq.

"Nuremberg declared that aggressive war is the supreme international crime," the 87-year-old Ferenccz told OneWorld from his home in New York. He said the United Nations charter, which was written after the carnage of World War II, contains a provision that no nation can use armed force without the permission of the UN Security Council.

Ferenccz said that after Nuremberg the international community realized that every war results in violations by both sides, meaning the primary objective should be preventing any war from occurring in the first place.

He said the atrocities of the Iraq war--from the Abu Ghraib prison scandal and the massacre of dozens of civilians by U.S. forces in Haditha to the high number of civilian casualties caused by insurgent car bombs--were highly predictable at the start of the war.

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15. 2632

There has been a sharp spike in the last week, things were quiet then boom all bloody hell is breaking loose, and the msm is whistling some happy tune.
They said that the Soviets didn't know how bad things were going in Afghanistan until the mothers started meeting up at the funerals for their sons.
I'm thinking the samwe damn thing will happen here, people won't start paying attention until there's funeral after funeral day in day out.

Reviving a tin foil theory for a moment, I'm wondering if they're not stashing bodies somewhere and releasing them in smaller batches. I mean if all of a sudden there were reports of tens or hundreds of casualties it's not something even our brain dead bush* loving media could ignore.