Iraq police say body of missing U.S. soldier found

[RestoreGore]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070523/ts_nm/iraq_dc

Iraq police say body of missing U.S. soldier found
By Paul Tait

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi police said on Wednesday they had found the body of one of three missing U.S. soldiers while nine others were killed in attacks, setting May on course to be one of the bloodiest months for American forces in Iraq.

Twenty people were killed when a suicide bomber wearing an explosives-packed vest walked into a crowded cafe in Mandali, a mainly Shi'ite Kurd town about 100 km (60 miles) northeast of Baghdad, police said.

The town's mayor put the death toll at 11. Mandali is in the volatile Diyala province, a large, religiously mixed area which has seen some of the worst violence since 2003.

Police said the corpse of a Western-looking man pulled from the Euphrates River south of Baghdad on Wednesday was that of one of three U.S. soldiers missing since an ambush on May 12. The half-naked body had bullet wounds and bore signs of torture.

Captain Muthanna al-Maamouri, a police spokesman in the provincial capital Hilla, said there were wounds to the torso and shaved head of the body, which was wearing U.S. Army-issue pants and boots and had a tattoo on the left arm.

"This is one of the missing soldiers," he said.
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THIS IS NOT WHAT PEOPLE VOTED FOR LAST NOVEMBER DAMN IT!

I have been a registered Democrat all of my adult life since I was of age to vote. I will always carry Democratic principles in my heart because it is who I am. However, my conscience is bothering me now as I continue to read about Democrats in Congress who continue to shirk their duty as Americans and as representatives of people who did not vote for what they are giving us. And I am tired of the BS that they are afraid. YOU ARE UNITED STATES REPRESENTATIVES... Get some freaking guts!

I hate to say this, but this is truly the end of "Representative" Democracy in this country as we have known it, and if the people of this country continue to be distracted while all of this plays out around them then we have no one to blame but ourselves. I simply cannot bring myself to read the news anymore. All it lists are those killed in Iraq while they bicker for political expedience. Why do we cower in fear while people die? To not impeach all of those who brought us to this point with lies is nothing short of being accomplices.

HOW IS THIS SUPPORTING THE TROOPS? To watch them kidnapped and tortured as we torture?

[HockeyMom]

1. You are right

As a new Democrat (30 year Independent), this not what I joined the Party for. They need to get a SPINE and answer to the people who elected them.

[RestoreGore]

And people wonder why voter turn out in this country is so low?

This is a great example.

[AuntPatsy]

6. This should empower the people not to ignore their vote thus

at least acting like they are doing something to stop this madness, at least I would hope that it would, when I read that this soldier had signs of torture all I could think of was his parents and the horror and agony they are more than likely facing knowing their loved one suffered so...

[Brassballs]

2. This country was NEVER a democracy....it is a representative REPUBLIC

which means the public gets to elect their representatives,
but the laws and policy is determined by the elected officials,
and not by mob rule majority. You will have another chance to
vote in November 2008.

[RestoreGore]

4. Representative Democracy or Republic, take your pick

What we have now is neither.

[Brassballs]

3. I wonder if the soldier's captors practised Geneva Conventions

God help us if he/she was tortured and MURDERED in cold blood.

[jillan]

5. Great rant!! You expressed my feelings very well. n/t