2 U.S. soldiers among 17 dead in Iraq

[maddezmom]

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Car bombs and drive-by shootings on Thursday killed at least 17 people — including two U.S. soldiers — in a series of attacks around central Iraq, officials said.

The U.S. command said the first soldier died from wounds in the early morning hours after his unit same under attack by small arms, while the second was killed after his vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb south of Baghdad. At least 2,673 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

The attacks came after day that was especially bloody even by Baghdad's standards, when car bombs, mortars and other attacks killed at least 39 people and wounded dozens. Police also uncovered the tortured bodies of 65 men dumped in and around the capital.

The violence persists despite a monthlong security operation by thousands of U.S. and Iraqi troops around Baghdad aimed mostly at stopping the killings carried out by Sunni and Shiite death squads.

more:http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060914/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

[acmavm]

1. Like another war I can remember, after a while there's nothing

one can say because it all becomes futile. Words won't stop the dying. And the criminals who started the war have their careers and their personal agenda all tied into it so they certainly won't consider calling a halt to the carnage.

And the bottom line is two more Americans are dead. For nothing except the criminal agenda of a corrupt administration.

[rodeodance]

2. NPR annouced two yesterday. I wonder if these are some two? Sounds

like ANOTHER two to me (based on how they died)

[cliss]

4. You bring up a good point, Rodeo.

Sometimes I wonder about how they issue statements. I wonder if they first withhold issuing information, and then they time it so statements come out at the same time and make them collide.

All just to obscure deaths.

[0007]

3. Stack 'em high junior....

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


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