Seven U.S. soldiers killed in Baghdad accident

[sabra]

Source: Reuters

BAGHDAD, Sept 10 (Reuters) - Seven U.S. soldiers were killed and 11 injured in a vehicle accident in western Baghdad on Monday, the U.S. military said.

It said two suspects being transported in the vehicle were also killed. The military said the cause of the accident was under investigation.

While U.S. soldiers are periodically killed in nonbattle-related circumstances in Iraq, such a high toll from one accident on the ground is rare.

Read more: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L10808723.htm

[BadgerLaw2010]

1. Physics bites. Don't crash tanks.

[ananda]

2. accident, eh?

pothole? bombhole?

[David__77]

3. This whole fucking war is an accident.

There's not much else to say on my part...

[RussBLib]

8. The war is not an accident

It's not because Bush or any intelligence service was "wrong" about Iraq having WMD. Bush wanted to go after Saddam from the first day after he was inaugurated. They were merely looking for a rationale.

This was is ILLEGAL under the Geneva Conventions, and Bush, and Cheney, and Rumsfeld, are all WAR CRIMINALS! For some reason (complicity springs to mind) the Democrats don't have the balls to pursue it. I've just about had it with politics. The Republicans are all greedy bastards and the Democrats are enabling, complicit wimps.

Sometimes I think Ralph Nader was right. Republicans and Democrats, no difference. (ok, there are some differences, but they are so small as to be insignificant)

The American dream is over, baby.

[librarycard]

10. "mistake" is what Bush calls it

would be laughable if it weren't so tragic

[Missy M]

4. How sad....

that was quite a vehicle accident to have 9 people killed and 11 injured. Wonder what caused it.

[DS1]

5. new definition of 'accident'

Roadside bomb goes off causing driver to lose control and crash.

[The_Casual_Observer]

6. At first it was a "roll over" now it's "under investigation"

Next will be silence.

[superconnected]

7. interesting that two "suspects" died in the crash. That's a lot of people to die

in a crash. Even if it were a bus full of people, that's not normal at all.

[antiimperialist]

9. 9 soldiers killed in Iraq (NYT)

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Iraq.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

[bemildred]

12. Hmmm, now what could make a vehicle just suddenly flip and catch fire?

So we got 7 dead and 11 wounded soldiers in that one "accident", plus three more "detainees".

[rocktivity]

11. If they're "investigating" what the cause of the accident was

then how do they already KNOW that it's "nonbattle-related?"

:shrug:
rocknation

[0007]

13. Pile these seven poor souls on the big 'accidental pile'

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


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The GOP working for a better America
God Bless America

[plasticsundance]

14. Well of course it was an accident.

Think how it will throw the game plan when 7 soldiers are killed in combat when Pet-boy-raeus is giving his balderdash assessment to the Congress. :sarcasm:

[Roland99]

15. According to the "new math" those deaths don't count.

Sorry soldiers. You don't matter.



:mad:

[tabasco]

20. None of them matter. Rumsfeld called them fungibles.

Neocons use soldiers like toys.

[RamboLiberal]

16. 9 American Soldiers Killed in Iraq

Nine American soldiers died in Iraq on Monday, all but one killed in vehicle accidents in and around Baghdad, the military said.

The deadliest of the vehicle accidents, in western Baghdad, killed seven Multi-National Division Baghdad soldiers and wounded 11, and left two detainees dead and a third injured. The cause of the accident was under investigation, the military said.

In a separate accident, east of Baghdad, an American soldier was killed and two injured when their vehicle flipped and caught fire. A ninth soldier died of injuries sustained Sunday while on patrol in the Kirkuk area of northern Iraq.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=3581750

But never mind we're staying at least till Chimpy is out of office!

[brentspeak]

17. Is Britt Loon still saying that it's more dangerous to drive on USA highways than to serve in Iraq?

[saigon68]

18. "Bring em on" shouted the AWOL CHIMPANZEE

[daleo]

19. Two detainees killed as well (riding in the vehicle)

It seems natural to wonder whether a detainee had an explosive belt, and blew himself up while in being transported.