Nine U.S. troops die in separate incidents in Iraq

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Details have emerged over the past 48 hours of the deaths of six soldiers and three Marines in Iraq.

A car bomb, detonated near a Task Force Baghdad convoy Tuesday, killed one U.S. soldier and wounded two others in in the Rusafa district of central Baghdad, U.S. officials said.

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Elsewhere, a U.S. Marine assigned to 2nd Marine Division, 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward), was killed in action Monday by small-arms fire during combat operations in Ramadi. No further details were available.

Pfc. Seferino J. Reyna, 20, of Phoenix, Ariz., died on Sunday when an improvised explosive device detonated near his military vehicle. Reyna was assigned to the 70th Engineer Battalion, 3rd Brigade, 1st Armored Division, Fort Riley, Kan.

Irish Sun

[Halliburton]

1. don't worry

the Iraqi's are standing up so we can stand down

[RedEarth]

2. Bring it on...cried the chimp

[TomClash]

3. Why do ou hate America!?

Why do you hate America, BUSH?

[BillZBubb]

4. The insurgency is losing steam, I guess the dead didn't hear.

When will the sheeple finally have enough of Bush's idiocy?

[LiberalVoice]

5. Pfc. Seferino J. Reyna, 20

20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20

Two years younger then I am and I have yet to even begin experiencing this world we live in. :cry:

[Olney Blue]

6. And why?

WHY?

TWENTY years old.....


:cry:

[driver8]

8. OMG -- twenty years old!!

I rememeber being 20 and thinking I had my whole life ahead of me...that is so young.

When will this madness stop???!!!

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

15. To An Athlete, Dying Young

THE time you won your town the race
We chaired you through the market-place;
Man and boy stood cheering by,
And home we brought you shoulder-high.

To-day, the road all runners come,
Shoulder-high we bring you home,
And set you at your threshold down,
Townsman of a stiller town.

Smart lad, to slip betimes away
From fields where glory does not stay,
And early though the laurel grows
It withers quicker than the rose.

Eyes the shady night has shut
Cannot see the record cut,
And silence sounds no worse than cheers
After earth has stopped the ears:

Now you will not swell the rout
Of lads that wore their honours out,
Runners whom renown outran
And the name died before the man.

So set, before its echoes fade,
The fleet foot on the sill of shade,
And hold to the low lintel up
The still-defended challenge-cup.

And round that early-laurelled head
Will flock to gaze the strengthless dead,
And find unwithered on its curls
The garland briefer than a girl's.

A.E. Houseman (who never met The Chimp)

[Divernan]

16. RIP, golden girls and lightfoot lads, from both sides of the battle.

Seen that new Army Reserve ad, where the buzzcut young man in the Army tshirt is jogging through a poor but clean, all white neighborhood, populated with kids on bikes, and young mother with baby in a stroller, and grandma raking her yard. The young man says, "I'm doing it for them."
In that case, he should be jogging by the Board of Directors of Halliburton (with their huge conference table stacked high with blood soaked stock options), Paris Hilton in a bikini, the Bush twins drinking in some Georgetown pub, and a whole crowd of rich white college kids lounging their summer away around the club pool after an exhausting round of golf. Because that's who he's risking his life for

[ChairmanAgnostic]

7. News Hour on PBS has a nightly litany of ages, faces and rank

My cousin is back in Germany, safe and sound.
But I still get choked up when I see that roll call.

I think I detected something in MSM. More people are beginning to ask questions and take notice of these deaths.

[MasonJar]

9. How many is that since the "murderer" went on vacation? How

many Iraqis? It is after all their country and we invaded based on lies from the cowards in D.C. And all those young Pugs who claim they are protecting us here at home from fates worse than death should be sold for dog food, instead of the innocent wild horses/burroes.

[leftchick]

10. they are trying so hard to hide the numbers...

I believe the US death toll is now about 1840.

:(

[alcibiades_mystery]

11. This is a multiple DUPE thread

All these deaths have been announced in other threads. This is material for General Discussion, not LBN. There is no LBN here.

[Straight Shooter]

12. Those last throes sound more like a power surge

Has Cheney apologized for his foot-in-mouth disease yet?

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Nope. Didn't think so.

[uppityperson]

13. I can't keep my car sign updated fast enough.

shit shit shit shit shit shit shit

Note to all, very seldom in my life do I, have I, used that word as much as I do here. Apologies but it seems to fit how I feel.

[BiggJawn]

17. Me neither...

Crap.

[VegasWolf]

14. If this keeps going on I'm going have to change my program counter

from an Integer to a Float. nt

[stanwyck]

18. I wonder if Bush thinks it will be some kind of

achievement to have a monument larger than the Viet Nam War Memorial.

[ignatius 2]

19. And Bush and Blair vacation while Baghdad burns. Where are the wise

and caring leaders and how did planet earth get stuck with these two destroyers?