US: 3 American troops killed in northern Iraq

[Lone_Star_Dem]

Source: Associated Press

BAGHDAD - The U.S. military says three American soldiers and an interpreter have been killed in a bombing in northern Iraq.

A command statement says the deaths occurred about 10:45 p.m. Tuesday in Nineveh province. That's an area where Sunni insurgents are active and includes the city of Mosul, where operations against al-Qaida have been going on for weeks.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080625/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_us_deaths

[EFerrari]

1. I cant' even respond to these stories any more.

So way beyond anger and grief. What is beyond anger and grief.

[Journeyman]

2. What's beyond anger and grief? . . .

Either resignation or resolve.

We'll choose well, we'll see the need to steady our resolve, but what of our less-contemplative contemporaries, and more importantly, what of the coming generations?

In a thread earlier today about the 100 years of oil leases so many cretins seem to feel is our right from this IraqAttaq and ongoing debacle, someone wrote that the saddest realization they've made as an adult is that the "Greatest Generation" spawned a host of assholes who seem to believe the world is theirs to kill and ravage as they desire. And if the children of a time that believed it had done right and well have proved so unworthy of the advantages they inherited, what of those who follow in the wake of such criminality and greed, who will inherit a vastly diminished realm and all the attendant anger it will incur?

[UpInArms]

4. the average US citizen has been disenfranchised by their government

and will continue to be until we rise up and make more than just polite letters to them.

We complain about the strongly worded letters sent to this mal-administration's minions - isn't that basically (although we have been in the streets) what we, too, are doing?

I think anger and mobilization may have to be the next step.

[maddezmom]

3. 3 Americans killed, Shiite fighting in south

Source: AP

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb killed three American soldiers and an interpreter north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said Wednesday, and Iraqi police reported 14 Shiite gunmen were arrested after fighting south of the capital.

In Baghdad, meanwhile, American soldiers using specially trained dogs sifted through the wreckage Wednesday of an office in Sadr City where a bomb killed 10 people, including four Americans working to restore local government in the former Shiite militia stronghold.

The Iraqi Defense Ministry spokesman suggested that Iraqi officials — and not the Americans — were the main target.

At least 25 service members have died this month, with eight deaths coming since Friday. May's death tally of 19 was the lowest monthly toll of the Iraq conflict.



Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080625/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq;_

[alcibiades_mystery]

5. Welcome to the Desert of the Real...

...

[paparush]

6. Everything I read says that Iraq is not a top issue in this election.

That just deflates the hell out of me.

I know, people are hurting domestically after 7.5 years of war on the poor and middle class.

American Denial.

Accept nothing less.