Six US troops killed in last 24 hours in Iraq

[NNN0LHI]

Six US troops killed in last 24 hours Iraq

http://english.bna.bh/?ID=38052

Baghdad, Nov. 24, (BNA) Six US troops have been killed in separate attacks in Iraq throughout the last 24 hours.

A US military statement said two soldiers were killed on Thursday in a road side bomb which exploded near their patrol in south Baghdad. On the other hand an other US soldier died of sustained injuries caused by a hand-made bomb in the Iraqi town of Heet yesterday, the statement added. The statement also revealed that three soldiers were killed yesterday in fire exchange, without giving further details...

[tuvor]

1. Dear God, that's over 2100.

That morbid milestone of 2000, it wasn't very long ago.

[sabra]

2. The current rate is truly out of control

we are almost @ 4 soldiers killed/day. :-(

[Wapsie B]

3. Gee I feel more free don't you?

:sarcasm:

Six more families with a dark Thanksgiving. Damn.

[babylonsister]

4. I remember Murtha talking; he said this is how VN started.

You have the number 2,000, you defend the war and continue, and before you know it you're at 54,000. We can't let that happen!

[Rex]

5. War carries it's own momentum.

The longer you stay somewhere, the more you invest into the outcome being in your favor. We've invested at least 200 billion dollars and building the largest spy network in the Middle East. Our embassy will be a huge fortress and I fully expect the Pentagon will allow a high death toll to keep the real estate we've paid for in blood. I hope it won't reach 54k, but no one ever seems to learn from history.

[0007]

6. This is insane, and for what?

[jbnow]

7. I had no idea

Haven't watched the news today. 6 more deaths, so many broken hearts survive them.
How many serious injuries, a long, long road ahead?
How many grieving Iraqi citizens today?

It's unbelievable that we got into this position.

Of course we need to leave because we have spawned so much hate. But the misery we have created will echo on a long, long time.

That remind me of a poem I wrote in 3rd or 4th grade. I was contemplating what it would be like living in a war zone, how horrible it would be to live with that fear. I don't recall much of it but it ended with:
Sounds of gunshots echo through the valley
And will echo long after guns have ceased.

Smart kid. That is one of the horrors. Long after this war is over, this war will not be over. Not for anyone who has lost people they loved, anyone badly injured, anyone who has witnessed horrors...

I am so damn sorry.

[lonestarnot]

11. This is killing me. We need to get them out NOW!

[Erika]

8. One needs to study Vietnam

There was absolutely NO reason for the U.S. to get involved. Once again, our security was never threatened by this tiny country, but there were profits to be made by corporatists.

Ask anyone why we lost 58,000 troops in Vietnam. Let them tell you why. If they follow the sick GOP line, they will say to protect our way of life from communism. What a f------ joke. We lost the war and weren't adversely affected one iota from communism.

The phony elections we set up are about as ridiculous as the ones in Iraq. Those we backed eventually fled Vietnam and took the country's wealth with them.

They and their descendants live(d) privileged lives. We lost 58,000 troops. No, we won't let it happen again.

[ShaneGR]

10. Technically, just for history's sake...

The Vietnam war line of "protecting us from Communism" wasn't a GoP line, it was a Democratic line eventually carried over by Nixon's GoP.

[Erika]

14. Do you have a link for that info?

Eisenhower originally placed us into Vietnam. Thanks.

[niyad]

16. and don't forget--cancelled the elections there when it was clear that

"their" guy was going to win.

[Selatius]

22. True, but JFK OKed more "advisors" on the ground, too

Of course, he wanted out of Vietnam by 1965, but he died and that policy was reversed under Johnson.

[TheGunslinger]

25. 'twas Eisenhower who made the "domino theory" statement, though.

[Warren Stupidity]

29. It was the bipartisan rational for the crap we pulled

all over the world from the late 50's to the fall of Saigon in '75. It has been revived as the warnterra by the same sick fucks, or their direct ideological descendants, despondent over the loss of cover for their vile imperialism that resulted from the unexpected termination of the soviet union. We are being used just as deliberately as we were back then.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. I Read The News Today, Oh Boy.

How much longer until it's one or two hundred a week, like Vietnam, and they still keep saying there's a light at the end of the tunnel, stay the course? How big will the new Wall have to be to hold all the names?

[niyad]

12. another brigade is being shipped BACK to iraq on monday from here at

ft carson.

we must demand that our troops be brought home NOW--I don't want to see more families suffering what we went through in and after 'nam, and after gulf 1, on either side.

[RagingInMiami]

13. So is going to be reported on any MSN sites?

Or is it going to be ignored for the usual bullshit?

[newportdadde]

15. If this isn't printed in an ad for plastic crap going on sale at 5am

the average American isn't going to give two shits.

[nofurylike]

17. no!! this can NOT go on. no no no!!! eom

[walldude]

18. How many Iraqi civilians?

From what I've seen today the civilian count has to near 100 for today.

[nofurylike]

20. thank you for that, walldude. too many. all too many!!! eom

[Bluebear]

19. "Pass the asparagus, Jenna," says the Unfeeling President. nt

[Rageneau]

21. Their sacrafice kept our nation free for one more day.

/sarcasm off.

Not only do I hate this Bush bastard, I'd be ashamed of myself if I didn't!

[Laurab]

23. It HAS to stop

It's become a little more personal to me since my nephew was deployed there in October. Every time I read of more deaths I wonder...

He knows it's a bullshit war, so do most of the people he talks to in the army. I hate this fucking administration more than I thought I could ever hate anything.

"without giving further details"...how many people have to wonder each and every day? How many people's lives are changed forever each and every day because of this heartless, soulless bunch of idiots "running" this country?

I miss America.

[ClayZ]

24. BRING THE TROOPS HOME NOW!

[Alamom]

26. Over 100 in less than one month. n/t

[Justice Is Comin]

27. We are actually approaching

the same number killed in the World Trade Tower attacks. Choiceless men and women sent to their death by presidential order for revenge against the WRONG country. It's almost surreal.

[Mutley]

28. Well. Happy Thanksgiving.

:cry: How much longer will they let this go on?

[niallmac]

30. I'll know the world has really evolved when deaths are reported

not as troops or insurgents but as people. Six young men, four children. Right now this tends to sound like a sports score board.
Don't flame. I am nauseated with disgust and sadness over what this admin is doing. But as the madness drags on the pissy little words we hear to describe reality start to bug me.
Insurgents: people who are fighting a huge military power that has invaded their country.
Why do I never hear about the number of innocent men women and children who were killed or horribly injured in the course of the war ? War is sanitized.
Listen to Murtha. Send Schmidt to fight. Do everyone a favor.

[deadparrot]

31. RIP.

...

[Disturbed]

32. No troop withdrawl until mid '06 and even then...

100K will stay. I guess the death toll of US troops will double at least and Iraqi deaths will probably be 10 times as much by mid '06. I predict that there will be around 80K US troops in Iraq until the Bush Regime leaves office and most likely beyond that.


"The terrorists want to control the oil. Our way of life will be at risk". George W. Bush (Nov. 2005)