CNN Breaking: 2 Marines Dead 22 Marines Wounded in Iraq

[leftchick]

From a battle in Al Anbar province on Thursday. No link yet just on TV

Edit: Link thanks to maddezmom

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060414/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_marines_killed

2 Marines Killed, 22 Hurt in Western Iraq

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Two U.S. Marines were killed and 22 were wounded, two of them critically, in fighting in western Iraq, the U.S. command announced Saturday.

A U.S. statement said the casualties occurred Thursday as a result of "enemy action" in Anbar province, but did not give a specific location or provide details of the fighting.

It said one Marine, assigned to I Marine Expeditionary Force Headquarters Group, died "at the scene of the attack." Another Marine, assigned to Regimental Combat Team 5, died at a medical facility in Taqqadum, the statement added.

Eight wounded Marines, all assigned to Regimental Combat Team 5, were evacuated by air to a medical facility in Balad. Two were listed in critical condition and six were reported as stable, the statement said.

[rzemanfl]

1. CNN just broke in, 22 Marines wounded, 2 killed in Iraq. Yester-

day?

[rzemanfl]

7. Moderator, thanks for deleted the dupe. I was just about to do

it myself.

[cantstandbush]

38. "Western Iraq" so it is not just Bahgdad that is unstable as the

Bushbots keep telling us.

[Name removed]

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[Roland99]

3. Which will be the last man to die for a lie?

[saigon68]

24. DON'T FRET there will be THOUSANDS MORE.

Especially those BROWN ISLAMIC TYPES

WE WILL MOW THEM DOWN LIKE WHEAT

ACCORDING TO Rumdumb "THEY DESERVE TO DIE" "They are non believers and tools of Satan:"

[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

4. Shhhhhh......It's The Weekend.....

Wouldn't want to depress anyone's easter egg plans with news of more deaths.

Then again, it's just another day, another couple of troops dead. Nothing out of the ordinary unfortunately. Same shit, different day.

[MadMaddie]

28. Especially since all those gay families with their children are

going to the White House Easter Egg Hunt...there is more important news you know...:sarcasm:

[0007]

47. Is Easter this Sunday?

[AzDar]

5. Jeebus. Heckuva job, Rummy.... n/t

[DoYouEverWonder]

6. That's 24 more families

whose Easter and/or weekend just got ruined.

Way to go W.

[Divernan]

12. Given the severity of wounds, their LIVES are ruined.

A son/daughter; husband/wife; mother/father with severe wounds - missing limbs, brain damage, blindness; deafness - the rest of their lives and the lives of those who love them will be saddened by their suffering and the thoughts of what might have been, had they not enlisted. I occasionally read some DUer posting that their child is in the military, but hey, they were 18 or 20 and it was their decision. . . they did it to get tuition money, etc. Well are they gonna get a posthumous honorary degree chiseled on their headstone? And the seriously injured will be spending their years in rehab, and wheelchairs, or with a seeing eye dog - not on some college campus. Yeah, Max Clelland made a great and meaningful life, but he was the exception, and if you read his book you'll know the oceans of pain, both physical and mental which that man has suffered. So for god's sake, all of you with any kids above the age of 12, educate them on the meaning of the term "cannon fodder". Show them pictures of the victims of this war - both US soldiers and Iraqi men, women and children. Explain to them that the USA was never meant to be about torture and violating the Geneva Convention, or declaring war on weaponless countries to take over their oil reserves. You can't wait around until they're 16 and some slick recruiter is weaving dreams of glory and wealth for them.

[arewenotdemo]

42. excellent points

thank you

[0007]

8. Pile 'em higher

Grass Bush

Pile the bodies high in Austerlitz and Waterloo Iraq
Shovel them under and let me work--
I am the grass; bush; I cover all.

And pile them high in Gettyburg Baghdad
And pile them high in Ypres and Vedum Mossoul and Al Fallaujah

Two years, ten years, and passengers ask the conductor:
What place is this?

I am the grass bush.
Let me work.

Carl Sandburg


Support the war - Donate a Son a daughter
The GOP working for a better America
God Bless America

[leftchick]

9. I am not finding a link

CNN did not spend more than a minute on the report. On to Tax filings from the putz. :eyes:

[maddezmom]

15. here is the link..you can still edit

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060414/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_marines_killed;_

[leftchick]

17. thank you mm!

I got sidetracked with something else. Everytime I google I get distracted. :crazy:

:hi:

[saigon68]

22. BRING EM ON" shouted the AWOL WAR CHIMPANZEE

lol

[saltpoint]

10. Those soldiers were someone's daughters or sons, friends, or co-

workers, or neighbors, or someone in a classmate's homeroom in high school.

The friends and the families of these fallen Americans will shortly receive notice of these deaths, and this on Good Friday, on Easter Weekend.

I don't know even one of those friends or families, but it's my thought that they deserve better from their government than to have a goddamned letter from Don Rumsfeld notifying them that their loved one has been killed in Iraq.

This is the context where all ill-begotten wars fail. It's not just a military or strategic issue against "insurgents." It's an emotional minefield, and Bush has no idea in hell where to step next.

This presidency is over with.

[bdamomma]

13. this is sickening

this administration all need to go to International Criminal Court!!! Damn them all. Damn them all for taking our sons, daughters, wives, and husbands in their sick plan. This regime should be hung.

[bluestateguy]

11. And I will once again say "I told you so" without shame...

And I will rub it in the faces of the apologists for this war, everytime a soldier is killed, everytime a helicopter "crashes", and everytime there is a car bombing.

[alcibiades_mystery]

14. No doubt thousands of "al-qaeda Islamofascist insurgent terrorists"

were killed in the battle...

:sarcasm:

[Barrett808]

16. Link: 2 Marines killed, 22 hurt in western Iraq

2 Marines killed, 22 hurt in western Iraq
Associated Press

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Two U.S. Marines were killed and 22 were wounded, two of them critically, in fighting in western Iraq, the U.S. command announced Saturday. Two of the wounded were in critical condition.

A U.S. statement said the casualties occurred Thursday as a result of "enemy action" in Anbar province, but did not give a specific location or provide details of the fighting.

It said one Marine, assigned to I Marine Expeditionary Force Headquarters Group, died "at the scene of the attack." Another Marine, assigned to Regimental Combat Team 5, died at a medical facility in Taqqadum, the statement added.

Eight wounded Marines, all assigned to Regimental Combat Team 5, were evacuated by air to a medical facility in Balad. Two were listed in critical condition and six were reported as stable, the statement said.

Ten wounded Marines from Regimental Combat Team 5 were evacuated to a medical facility at Camp Fallujah. Four were held for observation and the others were treated and returned to duty, the statement said.

Four other Marines assigned to Regimental Combat Team 5 received minor wounds, according to the statement.

Names of the dead and wounded were withheld pending notification of their families.

http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/14337216.htm

[brentspeak]

18. Rest in peace

[ninkasi]

19. I am sick

to think of so many lives ruined, all because the arrogant, corrupt, miserable excuse for a human being wanted to be a war president. I think of the pain the survivors and their families will go through, and have no doubt that those who make it will find that the war criminal will have no pangs of conscience at cutting their benefits and access to medical help.

I am sick of the enabling members of Congress, who forget their duties to protect the Constitution, and represent US, and instead blindly let Bush get away with anything he wants. They are willing to let him destroy the country, instead of standing up for we, the people. I detest them all. They all make me sick.

[saigon68]

25. Don't be sick

Get angry at the DINOs who voted for this shit out of COWARDICE

and now REFUSE to do anything about it.

[ninkasi]

27. Oh, I am, believe me

They are also responsible for this tragedy. The DINOs who have been afraid of seeming too soft on terrorism, and who have gone along with this madman instead of standing on principle, share in the blame. They have been more interested in protecting their jobs than fulfilling their obligations to the oaths they swore when taking office.

How amoral does a person have to be, to be willing to send men and women to their deaths, or horrible injury, in order to hold onto a job? Perhaps they found a way to justify their cowardice to themselves, but I couldn't have done it. Just about 100% of us here knew that the WMDs were a fiction, and just an excuse for Bush to have his war.

There is plenty of evidence that he wanted to invade Iraq even before he stole the presidency. There was absolutely nothing to tie Saddam Hussein to Osama bin Laden, but there was evidence that they were antagonistic toward each other. The sheer immorality of men and women playing with our men and women's lives to satisfy their own political ambition is reprehensible.

Many have not spoken up until it seemed safe to do so. These are not the kind of people we need entrusted with public office. I blame Bush and his administration for many things, but the DINOs earned my contempt all by themselves.

[saigon68]

35. Good points

THAT'S EXACTLY HOW I FEEL

John Kennedy wrote "PROFILES IN COUARAGE"

no courage in the bunch

This bunch of COWARDLY DINOs SHOULD SLINK BACK TO THEIR HOLES

YES BIDEN YOU TOO LIEBERMANN

[xchrom]

20. i guess they are finding the weapons of mass destruction

one by one?

[fryguy]

21. "Mission Accomplished" and "Last Throes" - my ass.....

With a mission without definable end or attainable goal, its time to bring our troops home before we loose more of them and, more importantly, they loose more of themselves.

[rodeodance]

23. "died "at the scene of the attack."--so, they got attached.

[wellstone dem]

26. My neice goes to Iraq in July

These posts used to leave me sad, but I cannot begin to say how they make me feel now. My head feels numb. And she isn't even there yet. How do the wives, children, mothers and fathers stand this.

[Breeze54]

32. I feel your pain....

I can't stand it.
I'm so enraged I have trouble putting it into words...

[cornermouse]

29. That's what embedded reporters will do for you.

Report the news at least a day late.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

30. Dear God, get our children out of there. K&R, we need to keep this in the

front of our memories. The less we think about it, the easier it is to accept. I will not accept this going on.

[mvd]

34. Agreed! It was devastating that we went in, and now..

what are we fighting for? We all know that any "democracy" created in Iraq won't be to *'s liking.

24 more needless casulties!

[ckramer]

31. Bring them on!

[leftchick]

33. any mention of this on TV news tonight?

I missed it if there was.

[saigon68]

36. Nothing on the news--- Its all about the DUKE LACROSSE RAPE

The sheep aren't worried about a few marines who had their heads OR LEGS blown off today.

They want to hear about CONDOM USE IN A RAPE at DUKE.

[leftchick]

44. I know what you mean

another distraction so we don't have to think of "that war". Wait till we strike Iran! How the fuck are they going to distract from that?

[saigon68]

50. They are waiting for "ANOTHER OUTRAGE"

like the Pentagon attack

[UrbScotty]

37. Why? WHY?

;(

[annabanana]

39. the deaths of our sons are not newsworthy

the pain of the mothers, fathers, widows and widowers, children left behind.... inconsequential.

[DawgHouse]

40. More families devastated by an illegal war.

:( Bring them home, NOW!

[genie_weenie]

41. It'll be 3000KIA just in time for Christmas

And each of the last 2 years of the Rain of Terra, will add another 850KIA, 5000WIA (2000non-RTD).

So, whomever steps in on 20 Jan 2009 will have 5000 dead service members, 16,000 serious wounded, and 22,000 others with "minor" physical wounds.

And the next 20 years will bring to light untold numbers of psychologically impaired young men and women and lest everyone here doesn't know it a bunch of troops with internal parasites and other undiscovered illnesses from being exposed to some toxic crude over there.

[UpInArms]

43. ...

:cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry:

:noicontoexpressmysorrow:

Period	US	UK	Other*	Total	Avg	Days	
5 	220	5	2	227	1.88	121	
4 	715	13	18	746	2.35	318	
3 	579	25	27	631	2.92	216	
2 	718	27	58	803	1.89	424	
1 	140	33	0	173	4.02	43	
Total	2372	103	105	2580	2.3	1122

[Massachusetts]

45. 2 Marines Dead 22 Marines Wounded in Iraq

RIP Troops.
drip, drip, drip, drip,drip, drip, drip, drip,drip, drip, drip, drip,drip, drip, drip, drip,drip, drip, drip, drip,drip, drip, drip, drip,drip, drip, drip, drip,drip, drip, drip, drip
The End Game Ain't Gonna be Pretty!

[Ezlivin]

46. Forward he cried from the rear and the front rank died.

Forward he cried from the rear
And the front rank died.
And the general sat and the lines on the map
Moved from side to side.

"Us and Them" - Pink Floyd

[LuckyLib]

48. Look for more of these. There are secret operations going on

in the Iraq provinces that are not (and won't be) going well. "Quagmire" only begins to describe it.

[sarcasmo]

49. Again with the media reporting only the bad news.

Sarcasm alert on and right wing spin alert on.