Three U.S. Troops Killed in Iraq (NEW, not a dupe)

[BuckeFushe]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&e=1&u=/ap/20031123/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

<snip>MOSUL, Iraq - Iraqi teenagers dragged the bloody bodies of two American soldiers from a wrecked vehicle and pummeled them with concrete blocks Sunday, witnesses said, describing a burst of savagery in a city once safe for Americans. Another soldier was killed by a bomb and a U.S.-allied police chief was assassinated.

The U.S.-led coalition also said it grounded commercial flights after the military confirmed that a missile struck a DHL cargo plane that landed Saturday at Baghdad International Airport with its wing aflame.

Nevertheless, American officers insisted they were making progress in bringing stability to Iraq, and the U.S.-appointed Governing Council named an ambassador to Washington — an Iraqi-American woman who spent the last decade lobbying U.S. lawmakers to promote democracy in her homeland.

Witnesses to the Mosul attack said gunmen shot two soldiers driving through the city center, sending their vehicle crashing into a wall. The 101st Airborne Division said the soldiers were driving to another garrison. About a dozen swarming teenagers dragged the soldiers' bodies out of the wreckage and beat them with concrete blocks, the witnesses said.
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Yup, we're making things so much better in Iraq, things are going so well.

[BuckeFushe]

1. Dupe

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2. Dupe

Especially on this matter, folks generally check the front page of LBN before posting news that's already been posted.

[BuckeFushe]

3. I am sorry I screwed up

flog me for a mistake. The damn story horrified me, and I completely missed it. The title was similar to the other one, but this is a completely new and horrific act, and it apparently was caught on film (Drudge front page).

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[BuckeFushe]

6. Three U.S. Troops Killed in Iraq (NOT a dupe, new)

[zinsky]

7. How Will the Conservatives React?

This will be interesting, since the conservatives came unglued at Clinton, when the Army Ranger was dragged through the streets in Somalia in 1993, even though it was Bush Sr. that put them in harm's way in the first place.

If the conservatives don't react to this hideous incident with condemnation of Bush Jr., we will know that they are hypocritical, partisan opportunists who have no moral compass at all (of course, most of us here know that already!).

[VolcanoJen]

8. Dupe... locking

Please continue discussion within the original LBN thread on this subject, which can be found here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=236308&mesg_id=236308

Thanks!
VolcanoJen
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