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SHRED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-21-07 02:34 PM
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Terrible day yesterday
As they are all, but this one was really bad.
:( :cry:

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20-Jan-2007 25 | US: 25 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Baghdad (north of) Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Ninewah Province - Ninawa Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Karbala Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire, grenades
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Karbala Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire, grenades
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Karbala Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire, grenades
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Karbala Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire, grenades
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Karbala Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire, grenades
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Baghdad (north of) Hostile - helicopter crash
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Baghdad (north of) Hostile - helicopter crash
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Baghdad (north of) Hostile - helicopter crash
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Baghdad (north of) Hostile - helicopter crash
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Baghdad (north of) Hostile - helicopter crash
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Baghdad (north of) Hostile - helicopter crash
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Baghdad (north of) Hostile - helicopter crash
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Baghdad (north of) Hostile - helicopter crash
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Baghdad (north of) Hostile - helicopter crash
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Baghdad (north of) Hostile - helicopter crash
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Baghdad (north of) Hostile - helicopter crash
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Baghdad (north of) Hostile - helicopter crash
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Baghdad (northern part) Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack

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Whoa_Nelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-21-07 02:41 PM
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1. I'd say forward this and every daily report to the WH, but...
were * to even glance at such reports, am sure his first thought would be:
"Oh, well. Am sure the names will be released soon enough so all their folks can be proud of the sacrifice." :grr:
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WatchWhatISay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-21-07 02:43 PM
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2. Why can't the prolifers see everyone of these names as potential babies
that will never be born because their mother/father was killed for nothing.
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hfojvt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-21-07 03:12 PM
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5. If it was an average day
at least 2,739 fetuses were aborted yesterday. 2,739 > 24. If each of the 24 had ten kids still 2,739 > 240.

Why can't we see these soldiers as people who risked and gave their lives to keep murderous, oppressive thugs from coming to power? Some people in Iraq are blowing up women, children and random crowds of civilians. Some are killing police and teachers and leaders and people of other religions.

I never wanted this war to start, but I also admit that it has not killed as many people as I feared it would. At this point though, I think it is necessary to leave Iraq as peaceful as, say, Turkey. I do not trust Bush to have that same objective though, nor do I expect him to sincerely work for a noble objective.

But I don't trust the a$$holes who are shooting down our helicopters either. Much as I hate him, I cannot blame Bush for their actions.
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QueenOfCalifornia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-21-07 04:40 PM
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7. Huh?
But I don't trust the a$$holes who are shooting down our helicopters either. Much as I hate him, I cannot blame Bush for their actions

If Bush had not invaded the country, our helicopter's wouldn't be there to shoot down. They are tired of having their families murdered by our own troops who are there to "liberate" them and bring them democracy. They are sick of their children being the victims of our depleted uranium. They are suffering from the effects of white phosphorus. They have no clean water. They go without food and electricity. They are killed on their way to school and their is no hospital care that is viable... If it was your neighborhood, your country, that had been invaded, who would you shoot at?
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hfojvt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-21-07 05:19 PM
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9. Depends on the circumstances.
If I am a German living in Rottweil and the Americans invade and defeat Hitler am I going to be upset? Am I going to take the opportunity to start killing teachers, police, and fellow Rottweilers who happen to be Protestant if I am Catholic or Catholic if I am Protestant? How many Iraqis were killed yesterday by other Iraqis or agent provacateurs from Iran? If we left yesterday would those insurgents then use their energy trying to rebuild Iraq? Or would they be further unleashed to try to take over Iraq? They could have clean water, electricity, food and jobs if so many of their fellow Iraqis were not blowing up their own country and trying to kill their fellow Iraqis. Bush destroyed their infrastructure, but it is the insurgents and the civil warriors who are keeping it from being rebuilt. Bush put the helicopters in the firing range, but the blame now belongs to those who pull the trigger and who manufacture and plant the IEDs. Fu$% them with a capital F!
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JohnnyLib2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-21-07 02:43 PM
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3. Again, we are reminded in heartbreaking ways---
For Whom The Bell Tolls
John Donne

No man is an island,
Entire of itself.
Each is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manner of thine own
Or of thine friend's were.
Each man's death diminishes me,
For I am involved in mankind.
Therefore, send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee.

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cornermouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-21-07 02:55 PM
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4. Shucky darns.
There you go with that touchy feelie left wing communistic democratic femi-nazi "it takes a village" stuff again. :eyes:
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QueenOfCalifornia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-21-07 04:32 PM
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6. If only these people who were "SACRIFICED..."
...were two week old blastocysts which had just implanted on the wall of a uterus... THEN THE RED-STATE, RELIGIOUS-FANATIC-BIBLE-THUMPING-IDIOTS WOULD GET ALL CRAZY AND SCREAM MURDER!!!

Errrrr.
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krispos42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-21-07 04:59 PM
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8. 2nd Lt. Therrel Shane Childers, USMC,
Edited on Sun Jan-21-07 05:00 PM by krispos42
Died 21 March 2003.

The first American to die in the invasion. He was 30.

CAMP COMMANDO, Kuwait – Two U.S. Marines died in combat today during operations performed as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom.The first, a Marine from the 1st Marine Division, died early this morning after leading his infantry platoon in a firefight to secure an oil pumping station in Southern Iraq. The Marine’s platoon engaged a platoon of dismounted Iraqi infantry. The Marine was transported by helicopter to a surgical company in Kuwait.


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