Two US Soldiers Killed In Baghdad - Reuters

[VolcanoJen]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051027/ts_nm/iraq_soldiers_dc

14 minutes ago

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two U.S. soldiers were killed when their convoy struck a roadside bomb in eastern Baghdad on Wednesday, the U.S. military said on Thursday.

The U.S. military death toll in Iraq passed the 2,000 mark earlier this week.

The latest deaths brought to 2,003 the number of U.S. soldiers killed since the March 2003 U.S.-led invasion to topple Saddam Hussein.

[leetrisck]

1. Prayers

for all

[bluestateguy]

2. Despicable

[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

3. Every Day, Another 1....2.....3.....

We'll surely add another 150-200 by the end of the year, and then hit 3,000 by next July. Won't that be a nice 4th Of July present?

Unless we are able to score a home run victory over these Bastards in the next few months!

[Breeze54]

4. ++

:cry:

[shockingelk]

5. Ug I hate it when I read

"killed in Baghdad" and not mention the unit so I know if it's my Humvee driving cousin's or not.

[gulfcoastliberal]

6. We must stay the course, per Hillary - no timetables.

Let em keep dying - she'll replenish the ranks by magically enlisting 100,000 kids for exciting and vibrant trips abroad.

Arianna Huffington: The Democrats Blow It On Iraq… Again!

snip

Exhibit A is the story NPR ran on Tuesday in which Senate Dems were asked if they regretted their votes to authorize the war in Iraq. Ben Nelson was among those who defended his vote, saying, “You just don’t look back.” Really? Why not? Afraid you might actually learn something from your mistakes, Senator?

Hillary Clinton refused to even address the question, telling reporter David Welna, “I really can’t talk about this on the fly, it’s too important”. As with everything Hillary says and does these days, you could hear her and her consultants doing the math: Expressing regret = too soft for the Oval Office. Continuing to express support of the administration’s Iraq policy = risking being overtaken by the post-Plamegate reassessment of the war. (So would offering a glowing assessment of progress in Iraq, as Clinton did during her visit there in February when she explained that suicide bombers are “an indication” of the “failure” of the insurgency, and that much of Iraq was “functioning quite well”)

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Exhibit C was the report I got from the intimate Democratic strategy session held at Ron Burkle’s house in Los Angeles to discuss the Dems’ need for a united message. Those present included Hillary Clinton, Harry Reid’s chief of staff, Susan McCue, pollster Doug Shoen, Haim Saban, Rob Reiner, Steve Bing, and Warren Beatty. Among the highlights was the Hollywood unveiling of the Dems’ new slogan -- “America Can Do Better” -- a soulless and vacuous phrase that sums up a party that’s become pathologically risk-averse. The discussion also included the latest report from Democracy Corps, run by James Carville and Stan Greenberg, which is calling for an agenda focused on “heath care, education and energy, followed by a top end tax cut repeal and homeland security”. In other words, let’s party like it’s 2004!

http://tinyurl.com/awd4m

:puke: at the spineless jellyfish that will ruin 08 if they have their way

[Freedomfried]

7. Drums still pounding a rhythm ...

..to the grave,

and the beat goes on

[Solly Mack]

8. 2 more dead for lies..er..I mean mistakes...

the one time lies are now simply "mistakes"

Update your talking points!

(AEIOU & that damn fickle Y - for those who need to get a clue about sarcasm)

[callady]

9. Three U.S. Soldiers Killed in Iraq - 4 Wounded

Three U.S. Soldiers Killed in Iraq


Thursday October 27, 2005 11:31 AM

AP Photo BAG107

By THOMAS WAGNER

Associated Press Writer

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Insurgents using roadside bombs and small arms fire killed three U.S. soldiers and wounded four, the military said Thursday.

Meanwhile, U.S. aircraft destroyed more militant safe houses near the Syrian border and apparently killed a senior al-Qaida in Iraq figure who was using religious courts to try Iraqis who supported coalition forces, the military said.

In Baghdad, back-room dealmaking continued as political blocs sought to forge new alliances before the Friday deadline for them to file candidate lists for Iraq's Dec. 15 election.

On Wednesday, three Sunni Arab groups - the General Conference for the People of Iraq, the Iraqi Islamic Party and the Iraqi National Dialogue - joined forces to field candidates in the election, which was made possible by Iraq's newly ratified constitution.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5373223,00.html

[Kukesa]

10. RIP. n/t

[tabasco]

11. RIP, Soldiers.

How many more?

Will it be 58,000 or more this time around?

War for corporate profits. How could we let it happen again?

[saigon68]

12. "BRING EM ON" shouted the AWOL CHIMAPNZEE

etc etc etc

another day ---- more useless deaths for Halliburton

[soup]

13. More sacrifice! More time! More resolve!

They must keep dying to honor those who have died before them!

Some days I weep, some days I rage - today it's both.

May they rest in peace.

[Kukesa]

22. Oh, Saigon, I just wanna cry . . . n/t

[ninkasi]

14. How do they live with themselves?

How do the war mongers live with themselves? How can they face themselves every day, knowing that they have condemned men and women to senseless deaths, condemned families to grieve and mourn? How can they enjoy living, while the number of dead rises, and will continue to rise?

I was adamantly opposed to this war. Like most of us here, I knew it was needless, based on lies, and would involve exactly the kind of urban warfare we have seen. To those who say Cindy Sheehan is only seeking publicity, and hurts our cause, I say this...as a mother who knows what searing grief and pain are, who knows what it's like to go through the rest of her life with a vacant space where her beloved son once was, she is trying to prevent other mothers, fathers, children, spouses, from suffering the same hell on earth that she is living.

Think, too, of the innocent Iraqis, who did not want us to invade, but who are having their country torn apart for Halliburton's profit and George W. Bush's obsession. The human cost alone is staggering, and unsustainable. We need to get out now, not tomorrow or next year.

My heart goes out in sympathy to all the victims of this madness. May they find some peace, some time, someplace. May the ones who brought all this about, may you feel a thousand times the combined pain of what you have caused.

[Solly Mack]

17. Beautifully said!

[PurityOfEssence]

19. They sleep like babies

These people are not like you; they haven't a twinge of empathy or any moral compass at all. The only thing bothering them is that it might make them look bad or cause them trouble.

Rumsfeld and Cheney are the worst sorts of corporate butchers, both so addicted to money that the concept of enough is alien. (Rumsfeld complained about having to spend $60K in legal fees to divest himself of various limited partnerships and other business dealings in order to seem impartial in his job. What was the value of these holdings? Ninety three million dollars. That's a dollar for every mile to the Sun. Still, he wants more.)

Junior's just a pathetic nobody who craves glory, has to get his way and feels entitled to make others suffer. Let's not forget the streak of sadism that's as big as his yellow streak.

Condi just wants approval. She's a permanent child practicing her skating and piano so Daddy will finally tell her she's good. The hurt and narcissism are beyond creepy.

These people are cold and way beyond mean. They embody the dark traits of humanity that caused us to form societies in the first place: to protect ourselves from people like this.

[ninkasi]

20. Thank you for your insight

Thanks, POE, for your response. It's just so hard for most of us to imagine how other humans can be this completely devoid of conscience, and willingly send others to die, or to face lives so changed by injury that they might have preferred death.

What does this say for the rest of us, though, that we have allowed, as a society, these vampires of the human soul to be in control. You say...

"These people are cold and way beyond mean. They embody the dark traits of humanity that caused us to form societies in the first place: to protect ourselves from people like this."

How can we make our fellow citizens realize that we must function as a society where each member has worth, and value, and that there will always be the very young, the very old, disabled, and others who need our help, and who depend on us? Is a tax cut, which is quickly wiped away by an increase in local taxes to make up the difference, such an important thing, for example, that we continue to return men and women to positions of power simply because they dangle the prospect of a few extra dollars in front of us?

If we want to retain any semblance of the values that America has traditionally stood for, they need to be swept from power. We know that America has never been what the portrayal has been...our history of slavery and slaughter of Native Americans proves that...but at least we know what the ideal was supposed to be, and have that to use as a model to transform our country.

[IndianaGreen]

15. Every day we stay in Iraq is a day in which GIs will die or be wounded

I don't understand why so many people fail to grasp this simple fact: staying in Iraq will not change the ultimate outcome. Let's bring the troops home, fly them all back to the US leaving the equipment behind.

[Solly Mack]

18. "staying in Iraq will not change the ultimate outcome"

exactly

[Dark]

16. May God be with their families. n/t

[deadparrot]

21. RIP.

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