Attacks Kill Nine Marines In Iraq

[Qanisqineq]

Please let me know if this is a dupe. I haven't been online at all on Saturday and didn't see this anywhere.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A12454-2004Oct30?language=printer

Attacks Kill Nine Marines In Iraq
25 Civilians Are Slain In Separate Incidents

By Karl Vick
Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, October 31, 2004; Page A01

BAGHDAD, Oct. 30 -- Nine U.S. Marines were killed and nine wounded in violence on Saturday, the deadliest day for American forces in Iraq in almost six months. At least 25 Iraqi civilians were killed by a car bomb, an insurgent rocket and what news reports called reckless fire by Iraqi security forces.

Eight of the Marine deaths and the nine injuries occurred when a car bomb detonated next to a truck southwest of Baghdad, Maj. Clark Watson of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force told the Associated Press. The attack took place in Anbar province, which extends west from the capital to the borders of Syria and Jordan. A ninth Marine was also killed Saturday, officials, who gave no other details, said.

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All I can say is "OMG"

[JDPriestly]

1. And the explosives came from

an unguarded ammunition depot. Bush is to blame.

[saigon68]

13. SEES & HEARS NOTHING

[JDPriestly]

2. Never forget

These soldiers were in Iraq because Bush lied.
The Iraqi insurgents had the explosives for the car bomb that killed these soldiers because Bush did not send enough troops to Iraq and because Bush failed to order our troops to prevent Iraqi insurgents from stealing from Hussein's ammunition arsenals.

Bush is to blame for the deaths of these soldiers.
Bush must answer for these soldiers' deaths.

[Erika]

3. Yes, It is A Sad Day, 9 More Lost in Iraq but

W says be happy and don't worry. See www.icasualties.org.

He and Babs don't want to waste their "beautiful minds" on our dead kids. And they won't send theirs to Iraq. The corporate elitists.

[kokomo]

4. My neighbor lost her only child, her 21 year-old son, in Iraq

I want to feel sorry for her, but her estranged husband got on local TV and gave a rant condemning the liberal media for killing his son.
The mother traveled to Fort Campbell, Kentucky to touch Bush's hand.

The parents don't blame Bush at all, only the "damned anti-war protestors" who don't support our troops!

I feel sorry for the mother as she has to be grieving. She will never have any grandchildren. She keeps her son's bright red Mercury Cougar washed and waiting in her driveway under a U.S. flag she has flying from the gable of her garage. She is so in denial.

[Erika]

5. Someone Has to Tell Her Iraqis Are Hurting far

more than Americans are for Bush's incompetence. Our dead can be traced at www.icasualties.org. The Iraqis were never a danger to us.

[Spinzonner]

7. Please don't condition your compassion

on agreeing with her politically or even understanding where that comes from.

If you have compassion for any in her situation, have it for all. Being in denial may be mean she needs it even more, though she may not realize it, especially initially.

[H2O Man]

11. Good advice.

Now is not the time to have a discussion about politics with her.

[realcountrymusic]

16. what a fool grief can make us

you can't not feel sorry for parents who have lost a child

they are in the rage stage. it could break either way. when they are alone with their thoughts, you wonder what really runs through their minds.

rcm

[Voltaire99]

17. Feeling "sorry for her" can mean different things in this case

Sorry that she's lost her son? Of course. Nobody should lose a son in war.

Sorry that she and the ex and the son were all duped into wasting the soldier's life? Yes. The war is unnecessary, launched on lies, fought for ulterior motives.

Sorry that the parents are speaking slurs and calumnies against the peaceful? Yes. As dupes, they help perpetuate the war. And that is only endangering the lives of other soldiers and civilians.

Sorry, then? Yes, we feel sorry for all involved. We must remember the Iraqis have paid a far greater price.

Let us work to end this war before more hearts are broken.

[HR_Pufnstuf]

6. WATCH ALL THE ACTION HERE

http://dailywarnews.blogspot.com/

This site has to be nominated as the Best News Reporting of 2004.

[Qanisqineq]

8. Another sad note

when my husband was in Iraq there was an Iraqi that washed their clothes so he could earn money for his family. My husband learned this week that the guy was beheaded for working with the Americans.

[alphafemale]

9. So sorry to hear that.

Iraq was a place where that sort of crap was pretty much abolished.

Not anymore.

I guess * Inc. is more comfortable with a more suppressed Suadi type populace.

[lebkuchen]

10. And so it goes with * as president

Expect more of the same, lots more, if he sneaks back in.

[saigon68]

12. The word is RESELECTED by Scalia and the Thugs in Black

Whores to the Bush Criminals

[Ilsa]

14. Yesterday, they attributed the deaths only to "violence".

I guess they didn't want to get specific about it being from explosive devices. People might actually think it was the unguarded stolen explosives from al Qaaqa.

Bush and his war planners should be tried in court for manslaughter resulting from incompetence and greed at the very least.

[leftchick]

15. Very Different story from yesterday....

This original story sounds like they were trying to enter Fallujah and came under attack. I think we have sanitizers working full time for events out of Iraq this weekend...

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The U.S. military said nine Marines were also wounded in the fighting in Anbar province west of the capital which includes the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah. The statement gave no further on how or where they were killed.


The deaths came as U.S. forces are gearing up for a major assault on Fallujah, seen as the toughest bastion of Sunni Muslim guerrillas, ahead of crucial elections due by Jan. 31.


Fierce clashes erupted Saturday in Fallujah as an American military convoy entered the southeastern industrial Shuhada neighborhood and nearby Nueimiya village — an apparent probing foray on the city's edges. Explosions and gunfire rocked the area and smoke was seen billowing in the air, witnesses said.


Marines responded with heavy artillery fire after insurgents shot mortar shells from positions in the southeast of the city. About 4 p.m. a Marine Harrier jet bombed a mortar position inside Fallujah and strafed it with machine-gun fire, "neutralizing the target and any threat," said Marine spokesman 1st Lt. Lyle Gilbert