Report: 11 U.S. Troops, Dozens of Iraqis Killed (Yahoo)

[maggrwaggr]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040418/ts_nm/iraq_dc

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Five U.S. Marines were killed in a day-long battle and six U.S. soldiers were killed in other clashes during a weekend of bloodletting across Iraq (news - web sites), a U.S. newspaper and the military said.



get ready for more and more of this:

[rfkrocks]

1. Shrub's "war of choice" "preemptive war" and all that crap

the human toll can't be counted-now what will the great tax cutting GOP do after all this violence-How much money does the uprising cost? Where is it going to come from? We have no troops to send in-where are replacements coming from? What a tragedy-this war will leave us broken,hated and in debt-mission accomplished

[Skittles]

2. that picture

the lady behind the casket is lovely. Where was this picture taken? A very poignant picture.

[maggrwaggr]

3. it's the daughter of the dead guy

who is actually one of the mercenaries killed in Fallujah.

I found it on Yahoo earlier. Now I can't find it.

[Snazzy]

5. Caption from that

Pall bearers from Schofield Army Base escort the body of Wesley Batalona on Saturday, April 17, 2004 from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Honokaa, Hawaii. Batalona, a retired Army Ranger, was killed when a vehicle he was in was hit by rocket-propelled grenades in Iraq. He and the three other American victims were working for Moycock, N.C.-based Blackwater Security. (AP Photo/Tim Wright)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/040418/480/hitw10104180029

[saigon68]

4. kicking