Attack on Baghdad hotel housing US officials-army

[Nambe]

The U.S. military said there had been an attack near a Baghdad hotel housing senior military and civilian staff of Iraq's U.S.-led administration early on Saturday.

''We can confirm there was an attack near or on the Rasheed Hotel at approximately 6.30 (0230 GMT) this morning,'' a U.S. military spokesman said.

An official near the hotel said rocket-propelled grenades were fired in the direction of the hotel, but there was no information on any casualties.

The attack on one of the most fortified compounds in the city was the latest in a series of attacks on Western targets in the Iraqi capital this week. ---

[jamesinca]

1. But wait

Bruce Willis said things were going swimmingly, Wolfowitz said the same thing. The senators who were just there said that we should stop saying this kind of thing in the news because it brings down troop morale. Actually this kind of thing brings down troop morale, not the reporting of it.

[Dogmudgeon]

2. What's Bruce Willis got to do with it?

Seriously.

Has he been shooting off his damnfool mouth again?

--bkl
An expert in shooting off one's damnfool mouth.

[rooboy]

5. Bruce said that from his experience...

the Iraqi people seemed to be welcoming the US troops. Later he admitted that he hadn't met many Iraqis, since he'd flown over Baghdad in a helicopter.

[izzie]

9. And reporters sit in hotels. Read Robert Fisk

He gets out and goes to peoples homes.

[SoCalDem]

3. Come ON, people...

The kids have their yellow no.2 Ticonderoga pencils, and the hospitals are open.. Everything's just peachy there...donchaknow???

[thebigidea]

4. the Iraqi people, being on the whole - rather darker-skinned than "us"...

seem to have "growing pains" adjusting to such heady, pinkish-white concepts like FREEDOM and DEMOCRACY.

These poor, backwards people! Don't they know that freedom is the gift that keeps on giving?

[Mari333]

6. Annthrax Coulter says the soldiers are only getting their hair mussed

She knows! So does Brucie!
Now Move along, nothing to see here.

[teryang]

14. 2000 American casualties, one picture

Except for the daring rescue of the damsel in distress, I haven't seen any other pictures of American casualties. Except for the initial invasion I haven't seen any pictures of Iraqi dead and wounded either.

It's a war of words then, not bullets, bombs, dead and maimed.

[Judi Lynn]

7. Saw a few minutes of Joe Scarborough tonight, sorry to admit

and he said the same thing the senators said you mentioned. He also said he and Rush Limbaugh believe that journalists in Iraq are afraid to tell about the "good things" in Iraq, because the nasty terrorists might get them!

Looks like this is the next Republican group posture: attacking all information which doesn't exalt the mighty _Bush and his crew.

[Mari333]

10. That is the new Drivel and Spin

Its the media's fault that soldiers are dying every day...Bullshit..
Now that the gloves are off, and we are seeing the TIP of the Iceberg of the Clusterfuck in Iraq, and Bush is officially a lying sack of shite, the media finally covers SOME of it, (NOT enough), and the talking heads start whining because their frat boy isnt being treated like King George..
Tough shit! Scarborough the murderer and Limpyballs are as important now as farts in the wind...only the lowest common denominater of any human being would take anything they say seriously.

[izzie]

8. Word is out Polls are down. Only good news.

Not what is going on only that we did something 'good'

[annagull]

11. My God, people, focus on the GOOD News

For instant, they are getting a zipcode!!! Yes, that is what we need to get Halliburton a nd Bectel running.

my sarcasm is off and running...

[R Hickey]

13. They don't want our Zip code...

They've been using Hamarabi's code for thousands of years, and they don't want to change.

[spinbaby]

12. Soldiers are coming back

And they're telling the tale.

A guy belonging to my husband's Moose lodge just came back and he's telling everyone that it's war. According to him every time an American is killed, the soldiers make sure they kill at least a couple hundred of "them" in retaliation. And he claims it's part of the job to keep the press from seeing anything.