Iraq Bombings Kill Three U.S. Soldiers

[Flagg]

Iraq Bombings Kill Three U.S. Soldiers
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By MATT MOORE, Associated Press Writer

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Roadside bombs have claimed more American lives, killing three U.S. soldiers in separate attacks in Baghdad and Sunni Muslim areas to the north of the capital. At least six soldiers were wounded in the attacks, one critically.


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In the biggest attack, one soldier from Task Force Iron Horse was killed and four were wounded in a roadside bombing in Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad. One of the wounded was critically injured and the other three were in guarded condition, the military said.


A soldier from Task Force Olympia was killed and another wounded by a bomb Monday evening in Tall Afar in northern Iraq (news - web sites). A soldier from the 1st Armored Division died and another was wounded in a bombing Monday in central Baghdad.


The latest deaths brought to 541 the number of Americans who have died since President Bush (news - web sites) launched the Iraq war on March 20. Most of the casualties have occurred since Bush declared an end to active combat May 1.


As the casualties mount, the United States and its allies are preparing to hand over sovereignty to the Iraqis by July 1, despite disagreements over the best way to choose a new government.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040217/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq&cid=514&ncid=514

[Dookus]

1. ugh...

at what point do we call this what it really is? A civil war.

[dbt]

2. Remember how most of the world tried to tell us

not to launch a war of aggression against a largely unarmed foe? Remember the AMERICANS who were out in the streets telling us not to launch a war of aggression against a largely unarmed foe?

Remember how quite a few gray-heads on this very board tried to warn us of Another Viet Nam?

We all live in a Rogue Nation now. Nixon is doing the Happy Dance.

:cry:
dbt

[markses]

3. Only one of these reports is new

The one soldier killed in baquoba and the one killed in Baghdad were reported yesterday. The soldier killed in Tel Afar is a new report.

[pippin]

4. The numbers actually

544

15 to date in February, 2004

47 in January, 2004


http://lunaville.org/warcasualties/Summary.aspx

Most of the deaths have occurred since Bush declared "mission accomplished." When will he and his band of brigands start asking themselves what's all this for?

[catmandu57]

5. 1000 will come much faster than 500

If nothing changes soon. Maybe then people will wake up.

[loudnclear]

6. When did this happen? Today, Tuesday or yesterday?

No dates given.

[catmandu57]

11. It's a mix

read Markses post #3.

[KalicoKitty]

14. Link

Iraq Bombings Kill Three U.S. Soldiers



http://www.nynewsday.com/news/ny-woiraq0217,0,2932604.story?coll=nyc-topnews-short-navigation

[UpInArms]

7. kick

:kick:

we can only end this madness with the end of the madness of the reign of King George III

[ignatius]

8. Our local paper, the Indianapolis star, rarely puts these

death in the paper anymore. Like Bush, if you don't see the caskets, or talk to the parents, then it must not be true.

I have written to the paper, shaming them on their poor reporting, but I get the distinct feeling they don't care.

Regime change begins at home.

[proud patriot]

9. :-(

:-(

[dArKeR]

10. Iraq: No let-up in anti-occupation attacks

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/5DF52EBA-F882-45FB-9B21-E831B5C8280C.htm

[Cooley Hurd]

12. We'd better brace ourselves...

The KIA numbers will be going up dramatically once the troop rotation is completed (green troops in place of the experienced troops). And the possibility of civil war is greater every day. All it would take is a political assassination in Iraq to set the powder keg off.

Our presence there is no longer a positive force. We're despised by all parties and, despite having 110,000 troops there, we cannot stop a civil war. We have to get our troops out ASAP.

[Barkley]

13. The occupation needs to be at the center of the Pres. campaign

Instead Bush and Kerry are still fighting the Viet Nam war.

[markses]

15. Bush and Kerry are not "still fighting the Viet Nam war"

The questions about the Vietnam war go directly to the central question of who can best deal with the occupation (which is to say, the effects of Bush's ill-conceived and illegal invasion) of Iraq. These questions about Vietnam service are not mere historical quibbles, but rather concrete and current questions of vision, of integrity, of qualification.