Three U.S. soldiers die in Iraq, toll nears 4,000

[Joanne98]

Source: Reuters

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Three U.S. soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq on Saturday, pushing the U.S. death toll closer to the 4,000 mark in a bloody start to the sixth year of the war for U.S. troops.

The three deaths, which brought the number of U.S. soldiers killed since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 to 3,996, came just days after U.S. President George W. Bush said the United States was on track to victory in Iraq.

In a speech marking the fifth anniversary of the war, Bush acknowledged the "high cost in lives and treasure" but said a U.S. troop build-up in Iraq had reduced violence there and opened the door to a major victory in the war on terror.

The war is a major issue in the U.S. presidential campaign, with Democratic presidential candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton calling for an early troop withdrawal timetable.



Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSL0157942120080322

[bronxiteforever]

1. RIP Soldiers

:cry:

[Flagg]

2. 'Bring 'em on', cried the Chimp

[saigon68]

18. Bonjour Flagg, that's the AWOL CHIMP

[alcibiades_mystery]

3. Welcome to the Desert of the Real...

...

[Imagevision]

4. M$M parroting McCain; "the surge is working" besides we're too busy with the election coverage...

[ryanmuegge]

19. Which is shit anyways (the election coverage).

The way the media has covered this election has made me embarrassed to be an American.

[chelsea0011]

5. According to Fearless Leader their deaths were romantic.

RIP loved ones

[dipsydoodle]

6. Uncle Dick , Uncle Dick........

wot's cause and effect ?

Somewhat strange that he didn't mention that the "reduced violence" related to violence attributable to a direct result of the invasion.

[0007]

7. Bring em home before we start another big 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


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

[lebkuchen]

16. Cheney dismissed such views a long time ago

never mind that you hold the majority opinion.

[LynnTheDem]

8. "major victory in the war on terror"

How did so many supposedly first-world people get to be so fucking dumb???

Just wondering.

[ohio2007]

9. Rare Mikey Monsoor memorial footage

comment excerpt;
m1010cucv (1 day ago)
It has been announced that Mike's family will be receiving his Medal of Honor at a ceremony at The White House. Mike's actions that earned him the Medal of Honor saved a friend of mine's life and I can not in words describe the debt of gratitude that I owe him and his family for the person that Mike was and he will always hold a place of Honor in my family. I never met Mike but I know several of his brother SEALs and he was in good company.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfK2BQCIIes&eurl=http://www.blackfive.net/main/


Fair seas and following winds Mike


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bnm-4kSLKdI&feature=related

[BlueManDude]

10. We're fightin' 'em there so we don't have to fight 'em here, morans.

[trusty elf]

11. ....

[goodgd_yall]

13. That says it all. n/t

[AnotherMother4Peace]

12. K&R - for our soldiers lest they be forgotten - This story was 4th (behind a dog story) on AM news

[lyonn]

14. There is no way anything guided by george could be anything but

a total failure. This article backs up this assumption. The attacks by the U.S. on check points run by our so called new friends, the Sunnis, is a good example. The U.S. cannot get rid of this incompetence quick enough to save lives, how effin sad and disastrous.

[Faygo Kid]

15. Make it four. So far today.

Meanwhile, the war continues. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/23/world/middleeast/23iraq.html?hp

And we hear nothing about it. Nothing.

Just the right-wing spin machine bludgeoning all of us with the Rev. Wright crap.

[lebkuchen]

17. Just more 19 y.o. cpl's and spc's

Bush says their expendable.

[saigon68]

20. WHO WILL BE # 4000

To die for Halliburton

[blues90]

21. Why don't they just tell the damn truth , it's well over 4,000

We get this number handed out as if it's real and no one ever says a thing about it .

They don't count the ones who died who were wounded and on their way out of Iraq .

Rummy said this himself when questioned .

Everything is a lie wrapped in a lie and wrapped in another lie .

[orleans]

22. first thing that came to mind:

"Ripped open by metal explosion
Caught in barbed wire
Fireball
Bullet shock
Bayonet
Electricity
Shrapnel
Throbbing meat
Electronic data processing
Black uniforms
Bare feet, carbines
Mail-order rifles
Shoot the muscles
256 Viet Cong captured
256 Viet Cong captured
http://youtube.com/watch?v=53zLkeIXZvg