Four US soldiers killed by roadside bomb in Iraq

[rodeodance]

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Four US soldiers killed by roadside bomb in Iraq



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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Four U.S. soldiers were killed on Monday when a roadside bomb went off on their patrol just south of Baghdad, the military said in a statement.


The incident, around the town of Yusufiya, was one of the heaviest single U.S. losses for some time. No further details were given.

[leftchick]

1. 2024.... 91 dead in 31 days .. 4th Deadliest Month in Iraq...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Four U.S. soldiers were killed on Monday when a roadside bomb went off on their patrol just south of Baghdad, the military said in a statement.


The incident, around the town of Yusufiya, was one of the heaviest single U.S. losses for some time. No further details were given.


:(

http://icasualties.org/oif/

[rodeodance]

7. my gawd

[rodeodance]

8. apparently not yet a news item on the cable stations.

[tiptoe]

24. Year-to-date comparison: 2005 and 2004 - US Fatalities in Iraq

US Fatalities, Jan 1, 2005 thru Oct 31, 2005: 692
US Fatalities, Jan 1, 2004 thru Oct 31, 2004: 639

source: Iraq Coalition Casualty Count

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Sept 19, 2004, Allawi: “Foreign terrorists are still pouring in...this is their last stand.”
Sept 23, 2004, Kerry: “...the fact is that the CIA estimates, the reporting, the ground operations and the troops all tell a different story.”
source: Kerry says Allawi, Bush in cahoots

[sabra]

2. October, another horrbile month in Iraq :-(

[Ilsa]

3. 2,024 per www.icasualties.org. 91 (US) for October. May they R.I.P. eom

[SheilaT]

4. I guess

the right-wing commentators were all right when the said that 2000 dead was just a meaningless milestone. Yep. Who here can do the math to tell how quickly, at this rate, we'll reach 3,000?

Someone ought to be asking the President just what his intended quota of American soldiers he hopes to see killed.

Or we should be asking those who support the war, how many are enough? Does that number include their own sons and daughters?

[tabasco]

5. RIP, Soldiers.

These Americans died because of corporate greed.

Cheney has made $8 million from his Halliburton stock since the beginning of the war. He doesn't care about these soldiers and neither does Bush.

[saigon68]

11. "BRING EM ON" shouted the AWOL CHIMAPANZEE

As he counted his 20 pieces of HALLIBURTON SILVER.

[deadparrot]

6. RIP.

...

[DoYouEverWonder]

9. Isn't it odd

that everyone gets killed by roadside bombs? They never get killed in combat. They rarely get shot down. They are never described has 'taking fire'. Odd?

[Christa]

10. mission accomplished? :-( nt.

[tatertop]

21. It strikes me as odd

The Iraqi capture of those two
British rat bastards makes me skeptical about
the origin of US troop deaths.

After all, who is to say if that demolition team
is disarming and removing bombs... or placing them.

Place IEDs, kill your own soldiers, blame Iran, go to war.

[Eugene]

12. Reuters: Six US soldiers killed in Iraq

Six US soldiers killed in Iraq
Mon Oct 31, 2005 9:03 AM ET

By Alastair Macdonald

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Six U.S. soldiers were killed in two bomb attacks
around Baghdad on Monday and in the far west there were angry
accusations of civilian deaths in a U.S. air strike that targeted
al Qaeda fighters coming in from Syria.

The roadside bombings made October, which saw Iraqis vote for a
constitution and put Saddam Hussein on trial, as bloody a month as
the Americans have suffered since January, when violence surged in
advance of a parliamentary election.

No details were available on the two attacks but U.S. commanders have
been voicing increasing concern at the power and sophistication of
roadside bombs, the biggest killers of their troops; devices capable
of penetrating armored vehicles have become more common this year,
based on technology U.S. and British officials say has been
introduced from Iran.

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13. Wow! I just read where four were killed, are these six in the

same group?

[Eugene]

18. Four from the original report plus two in a second attack near Balad. n/t

[tatertop]

15. Trying to blame Iran again. Pitiful.

[alcibiades_mystery]

17. Pitiful indeed

As if Iran has any interest in fomenting rebellion in the Sunni heartland!

Iran wants the rebellion in the Sunni heartland to die down, yielding absolute Shiite rule throughout Iraq, an Iraq led by the Shiite clerics with whom Iraq has religious and political ties.

And who on earth trusts anything attributed to Niger-uranium toting "British" intelligence anymore? It's an international joke, that only the densest of Americans don't get.

[Swede]

14. Four more families destroyed for lies.

nt

[AlCzervik]

16. This is now the 2nd deadliest month of 05 since Jan.

:cry:

[endarkenment]

19. It appears that the insurgents have upgraded

their IED technology in response to our improvements in detection, armor, and avoidance. And so it goes. But I'm real sure that any day now the disenfranchised sunnis will give up and accept shiite rule backed by the guns of the foreign invaders.

The Cabal should be in the same courtroom as Saddam.

[ckramer]

20. Don't worry

the insurgents are in their last throes.

[Barkley]

22. Indeed: "major combat operations" in Iraq ended in May 2003 - nt

[libodem]

23. This freaks me out so much

my nephew is over there and everytime I hear someone is killed my stomach tightens and I feel like crying. My 25 year old son was discharged from the Army last August. Thank (insert deity) he is out. My nephew could be my kid though, he's my favorite and I really love him. He knows how I feel about the war. I pray, such as it is, ceaselessly for his safety and survival. He was such a sensitive guy as a little kid. He used to throw up at scary and/or violent movies. Man, I hope he makes it out with his mental health. To be honest I hope all those kids make it out and I send love and energy to them all. I just can't see one more senseless death.

[ninkasi]

25. I know you are worried

about your nephew, and hope that he comes home safe and unharmed. Returning troop's mental health is indeed something to be concerned about, and I truly hope that he doesn't carry psychological scars because of this insane and needless war.