3 U.S. servicemembers die in Iraq

[sabra]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2006-12-27-iraq-casualties_x.htm

3 U.S. servicemembers die in Iraq

BAGHDAD (AP) — Two soldiers and a Marine died in separate incidents across Iraq, the U.S. military said Wednesday.
The Marine, assigned to Regimental Combat Team 5, died Wednesday from wounds sustained from combat in Iraq's western Anbar province, the military said in a statement.

One of the soldiers died Dec. 23 from a non-combat injury at Logistics Support Area Anaconda, a U.S. military base near Balad, 80 kilometers (50 miles) north of Baghdad, another statement said. The soldier was part of the 13th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary).

Another soldier died from injuries sustained in a vehicle rollover on Tuesday, the military said. The incident, which was under investigation, occurred on a dirt canal trail during a combat reconnaissance mission south of Baghdad, it said.

[saigon68]

1. "BRING EM ON" shouted the AWOL CHIMPANZEE

[0007]

7. Egads!

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

[saigon68]

14. THEY ARE WOSING

[0007]

17. Beautiful fuckin' beautiful......LOL!!

[SpiralHawk]

2. "I am so sorry. This is interrupting my vacation." - Commander AWOl

"Too bad about the dead soldiers and stuff, but we can't stop now when republicon oil & munitions profits need to be boosted to even higher levels."

- Commander AWOL Bush & Dick 'Five Deferments' Cheney

[SharonRB]

3. Three Michigan soldiers were killed also

Three Michigan soldiers died of wounds suffered when an improvised explosive device detonated near their vehicle during combat operations in Iraq, the military said Wednesday.
Spc. Chad J. Vollmer, 24, of Grand Rapids; Pfc. Wilson A. Algrim, 21, of Howell; and Pvt. Bobby Mejia II, of Saginaw died Dec. 23 in Salman Pak, Iraq, of their wounds, the Defense Department said.

They were assigned to the First Battalion, 125th Infantry from Big Rapids.

[ninkasi]

4. More families grieve

but to Smirk, it's 3 more notches on his macho belt. He doesn't realize that sending others to die for his ego makes him a coward. He is a bully, and a coward, and what's happening in Iraq is both criminal and immoral. I hope the families and loved ones of these troops can in time find their pain diminished a bit. They will live with the very real consequences of Bush's War for the rest of their lives.

[thereismore]

5. How many have died since shrub postpone any decision about Iraq? nt

[BenDavid]

6. 2983

but according to tony snow, it is just a number. oh what a wicked web we weave, when we practice to deceive (in order to invade a country)

"If any question why we died ~ Tell them because our fathers lied" ~ Rudyard Kipling

[DrDebug]

18. 2996. Dubya is going for the 3000 before the end of the year n/t

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

8. Servicemembers

is that suppossed to be a euphemism? if space is limited why not say troops.

i would never say i was a former servicemember.

[Supersedeas]

9. Nothing to see here--Feed them more updates on missing climbers

[lebkuchen]

10. Germany-based 2nd BCT casualty was a determined soldier

A Germany-based soldier killed in Iraq on Sunday has been identified as Pvt. Evan A. Bixler, a member of the 1st Battalion, 6th Infantry Regiment.

Bixler, a 21-year-old, Racine, Wis., native, died in Hit of wounds received from indirect enemy fire during security operations, according to the Defense Department.

His unit, part of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, is based in Baumholder, Germany.

After graduating high school in 2003, Bixler was denied entry into the Army for medical reasons, family members told The Associated Press.

“Evan was devastated at the time,” his mother, Lisa Bixler, told The Journal Times of Racine.

Then, in June 2005, the high school friend he had hoped to enlist with was killed in Iraq, his mother said. In March, he told his parents he wanted to seek a medical waiver to enlist, according to the AP report.

...

“The recruiter said to him, ‘You know, Evan, I’ve had people work this hard to get out of the Army; I’ve never known anyone work this hard to get into the Army,’ ” Lisa Bixler said.

Bixler enlisted in the Army in April, arrived in Baumholder in late August and deployed to Iraq in November, according to the Journal Sentinel newspaper in Milwaukee.


More...

[saigon68]

11. Too bad Bixler died for nothing

more than corporate war profits.

[lebkuchen]

12. I wonder why the parents are so proud.

That he pursued his dream to be in the army during a war to fight a ghost enemy? The three months of training he got before being sent to "the front" wasn't much help. 1-2 months later, and he's hit. Twenty-one, and now he's dead.

I don't know about you, but my later years have been my best. If Evan's best years were being at war, so be it. Seems like a huge waste of human potential to me.

[saigon68]

13. Well put !! I have been preaching this for 3 1/2 years now

Every one who dies in this malstrom has had their 15 minutes of fame.

This guy would have probably spent his life selling cigarettes in a convenience store.

This way he went out like a comet.

Live fast, die young

In ten years NO ONE--- and I mean NO ONE will give a shit.

[lebkuchen]

15. I wonder if

his parents had him tracked, perhaps inadvertantly, for this end. Studies show that children rarely rise above their parents rank and expectations. Maybe the son sensed that his parents had no higher hopes for him than an honest, low-status job, and he wanted more, but had no understanding of how that might be achieved other than to become a name on a wall of dead "heroes."

I can't understand this "proud" business on the part of some parents who lose a son/daughter to Iraq/Afghanistan.

Unless the US restructures itself to a democratic system of higher education (rather than the current one based on ability to pay), many of its youth will see no way to achieve their 15 min. other than to "suicide" themselves for our wealthies' glorified causes of self-enrichment.

[Kingshakabobo]

16. Yep........

50,000 plus kids pushing up daisies because of the Viet Nam war........now what? My co-worker just took a wonderful vacation there. They have Kentucky Fried Chicken there too! What a waste.