Death toll for week tops 250 as suicide car bomber kills 13

[G_j]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,5019073-103550,00.html

Death toll for week tops 250 as suicide car bomber kills 13

Dozens killed in US air strikes on Falluja ·
British troops clash with insurgents in Basra

Rory McCarthy in Baghdad
Saturday September 18, 2004
The Guardian

The US military stepped up efforts to check Iraq's destabilising insurgency yesterday by pounding the restive city of Falluja, killing dozens of people, with children reported to be among the injured.

Details of the raids emerged as Baghdad was once again hit by a suicide car bomber, who attacked a police checkpoint. At least eight people died.

The bloodshed came at the end of a desperate week in which more than 250 people were killed in fighting across the country, and three more westerners were kidnapped.

Violence was also reported in Basra yesterday where British troops clashed with fighters loyal to the rebel cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, raiding an office and seizing weapons and explosives after an ambush.

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[bluedeminredstate]

1. 250 "opportunities"

to bring freedom to the world according to Bush. He won't need his Viagra tonight.

[saigon68]

2. I wonder if its his turn to service Cheney

Or maybe some other bootlicks turn.

[bogey18]

3. While we sit around and debate documents and tax cuts

Iraq is turning into an absolute vision of hell on earth. What would happen if we were seeing the pictures of this stuff on TV every night? We are all debating like we are still in a free country! Our fucking freedom disappeared around 15 years ago. HOLY SHIT - what country am I in? What planet am I on? The exact way I feel about * is the way the rest of the world feels about the US - spoiled, rich, ungrateful, mean and stupid.

Edited for bad spelling caused by hitting the keys too hard.

[Kimber Scott]

4. Thank God, we've gotten rid of all those mass graves and torture

chambers.

[TahitiNut]

5. 250 - The same percentage in the US would be nearly 3,000.

In a country with a population that's less than 1/11th the size of ours, that many deaths is the equivalent of 9/11.

How many new al-Qaeda recruits did those deaths create?

[G_j]

6. and a large percentage of the Iraqi population is under 18

I forget the exact number, 70% or something.

[cornfedyank]

7. pppppp

prior planning prevents poor performance.

if shrub et al had just give them kids jobs so they could afford a hot rod and get laid, they would have calmed down a bit.

$2/hr
40hrs/week
50weeks/year
23,000,000 iraqis =$92 billion.

put the cash in THEIR HANDS.