U.S. Repositioning Troops in Iraq

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

By RYAN LENZ
Saturday, July 29, 2006

BAGHDAD, Iraq - The U.S. command said Saturday it will reposition about 3,700 troops from around Iraq in an effort to quell violence in Baghdad.

Meanwhile on Saturday, a car packed with explosives blew up in a residential district of Kirkuk, killing four people and injuring 13, police said. The U.S. command said three U.S. Marines died in action in western Iraq.

The bombing occurred around 2 p.m. in the al-Wasiti district of Kirkuk, about 180 miles north of Baghdad. It was the sixth car bombing this month in Kirkuk, where tensions are rising among Arabs, Kurds and Turkomen for control of the area's vast oil wealth.

The western regional commander of the Iraqi Border Protection Force, Brig. Gen. Jawad Hadi al-Selawi, was killed in Karbala, 50 miles south of Baghdad, police said.



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[VegasWolf]

1. US to move deck chairs. nt

[hobbit709]

2. Too many fires

not enough feet to stomp the fires out. If we calm Baghdad, the rest of the country erupts. if we try to control the country, Baghdad erupts. Soon both will erupt at the same time and who will be on the last chopper leaving the embassy?

[IndianaGreen]

3. Our Congress continues to vote for "Stay the Course"

How many Senators voted for the Kerry-Feingold resolution to bring all the troops home by year's end?

This war is lost, all that remains is the final tally of the dead and wounded.

[Monkeyman]

4. Don't remind of that one

We needed to leave Vietnam but as a vet there it broke my heart to remember all the brothers I lost for nothing