Anti-U.S. insurgents disrupt Iraq road network

[Robbien]

BAGHDAD, April 17 (Reuters) - Insurgents blew up bridges over a main highway from Baghdad to southern Iraq, further disrupting the country's battered transport system, witnesses said on Saturday.

They said debris from blasts targeting at least two bridges closed the Baghdad-Hilla road, one of two highways leading to the port city of Basra.

The U.S.-led administration said in a statement that two highways, including the Basra-Hilla route, were closed for repairs and to help halt guerrilla attacks against U.S. forces and supply convoys.

The U.S. military said it had no information about blasts targeting highway bridges. But a traveller who came from Hilla said: "The guerrillas are after U.S. supply lines. American convoys are having to drive off the highway and go through rough terrain around the bridges."

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/OWE751830.htm

[CabalBuster]

1. This is not good....shades of Viet Nam n/t

[PurityOfEssence]

2. this puts us in the 700 Club, doesn't it?

(On edit: posted to wrong thread by accident)

Even with all of the quibbling and horseshit, there's no way to really duck that the deaths are over 700, right? Can we accept that now? At this rate, we'll crack four digits by Independence day.

This can't continue. Besides being wrong on every moral level, it simply isn't working.