4 U.S. Marines, 1 sailor killed in Iraq. 96 total. * says "we're winning!"

[Bluebear]

BAGHDAD, Iraq - The U.S. military on Thursday announced the deaths of five U.S. troops in fighting in
Iraq, raising to 96 the number of American forces killed this month.

The four Marines and one Navy sailor all died in fighting in Anbar province, a hotbed of the Sunni insurgency against U.S. troops and their Iraqi government allies.

The latest deaths raised to 96 the number of U.S. forces killed in October, the highest toll for any month this year and on course to surpass the October 2005 total of 96.

Before that the deadliest months were January 2005, at 107; November 2004 at 137 and April 2004, at 135.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061026/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

[Chipper Chat]

1. Sweet Jesus we're being slaughtered in Iraq.

The world's mightiest fighting force is being eaten alive by ragtag Arabs. Holy Mary, Mother of God, let American voters go in droves to their precincts a week from Tuesday and cast a democratic ballot to cut this Vile Republican Hydra off at the heads - all nine of them (Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Snow, Limbaugh, Gonzales, Hannity, Coulter).
Aquarius - you cant come soon enough.

[Binka]

2. Amen Brother. Amen.

:cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry:

[Disturbed]

3. US Troops are expendable in this War for Oil.

The prize is apparently worth many more thousands of US Troops. Iraqi deaths and injuries? Not much of a concern. :nopity:

[acmavm]

4. First mistake is thinking of them as 'ragtag Arabs'. The dumbest thing

anyone has done since day one is think that these are some backwards thirdworld hut-dwelling ignorants. They have a civilizatin thousands of years older than we do. They've fought this occupation many times. They've always won.

[Chipper Chat]

6. The war-mongering xenophobic pubs never learn.

The smirk that was ALWAYS on Bush's face when he talked about foreigners, be it Arabs, Persians, or Mexicans, told the story. You're right - there are TVs in the middle east! And (I know I'll get in trouble for this) white Americans seem to be the least adept at spotting racism, whether it's on the giving or the receiving end.

[Binka]

12. Why Would You Be In Trouble For Stating The Obvious?

Rock on Chipper Chat! I :loveya:.

[lapfog_1]

5. if the serious injury totals maintain the ratio of 5 to 1

with deaths... that 500 to 600 soldiers a month that are missing limbs or have brain injuries from
IEDs that will last a lifetime. That's 7200 a year or more. If, as was previously announced by the chimperor himself, we are there for 10 years, that's a casualty total of 70,000. Or about half of all the armed forces we have in Iraq today. No army can sustain those casualty figures without serious consequences to the very integrity and continued existence of the army itself. As Abe Lincoln once said during our civil war, "It's like shoving flies across the room".

We are losing this war. Whatever becomes of Iraq and it's oil, it won't be up to us to determine or even have a say. This is a disaster and it might even be the beginning of the end of American economic and military power, just as Afghanistan was for the Soviets. We have already gone from the world's largest creditor to the world's largest debtor, and in many many other categories we have slipped from the top ranks of industrialized nations to positions near third world countries.

I cry for our soldiers and for our nation.

[lapfog_1]

9. Crap, I just thought of something else...

4 a day or so... that's just a whole lot of death notification details knocking on doors.

As someone who answered such a knock ( I was the only one home when they came to tell my family about my brother )... I really feel for these guys that have to do that. Usually two officers... and I'm guessing that each and every army base and marine base in the US is sending these guys out once ot twice every month, maybe a few are doing it once a week. That's just got to wear a person down.

[Ice4Clark]

7. RIP

25-Oct-2006 5 | US: 5 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET

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US NAME NOT RELEASED YET

US NAME NOT RELEASED YET

24-Oct-2006 1 | US: 1 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET

23-Oct-2006 3 | US: 3 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Hospital Corpsman Charles O. Sare

US Lance Corporal Richard A. Buerstetta

US Lance Corporal Tyler R. Overstreet

22-Oct-2006 6 | US: 6 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Specialist Carl A. Eason

US Specialist Nicholas K. Rogers

US Sergeant Willsun M. Mock

US Specialist Matthew W. Creed

US Specialist Nathaniel A. Aguirre

US Major David G. Taylor

21-Oct-2006 6 | US: 6 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Lance Corporal Eric W. Herzberg

US Sergeant 1st Class Tony Knier

US Corporal Joshua C. Watkins

US Lance Corporal Nicholas J. Manoukian

US Lance Corporal Nathan R. Elrod

US Lance Corporal Clifford R. Collinsworth

20-Oct-2006 2 | US: 1 | UK: 0 | Other: 1
SAL Captain José Argelio Soto Ochoa

US Staff Sergeant Kevin M. Witte

19-Oct-2006 1 | US: 1 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Lance Corporal Edwardo Lopez Jr.

18-Oct-2006 3 | US: 3 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Sergeant 1st Class Daniel A. Brozovich

US Jose R. Perez

US Staff Sergeant Jesus M. Montalvo

17-Oct-2006 11 | US: 11 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Specialist Daniel W. Winegeart

US Staff Sergeant Ronald L. Paulsen

US Specialist Joseph C. Dumas Jr.

US Corporal David M. Unger

US Corporal Russell G. Culbertson III

US 2nd Lieutenant Christopher E. Loudon

US Staff Sergeant Ryan E. Haupt

US Sergeant Norman R. Taylor III

US Petty Officer 1st Class Nathan J. Frigo

US Staff Sergeant Garth D. Sizemore

US 2nd Lieutenant Joshua L. Booth

15-Oct-2006 7 | US: 7 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Sergeant Jr., Lester Domenico Baroncini

US Private 1st Class Stephen Bicknell

US 1st Lieutenant Joshua Deese

US Sergeant Jonathan E. Lootens

US Captain Mark C. Paine

US Sergeant Brock A. Babb

US Lance Corporal Joshua M. Hines

14-Oct-2006 6 | US: 6 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Private 1st Class Keith J. Moore

US 1st Sergeant Charles M. King

US Staff Sergeant Joseph M. Kane

US Specialist Timothy J. Lauer

US Sergeant Jonathan J. Simpson

US Airman 1st Class Leebenard E. Chavis

13-Oct-2006 3 | US: 3 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Lieutenant Johnny K. Craver

US Private 1st Class Kenny F. Stanton Jr.

US Private 1st Class Thomas J. Hewett

12-Oct-2006 1 | US: 1 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Sergeant Gene A. Hawkins

11-Oct-2006 3 | US: 3 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Sergeant Justin T. Walsh

US Captain Shane T. Adcock

US Sergeant Nicholas R. Sowinski

09-Oct-2006 4 | US: 4 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Private 1st Class Shelby J. Feniello

US Lance Corporal Jon Eric Bowman

US Private 1st Class Phillip B. Williams

US Sergeant Julian M. Arechaga

08-Oct-2006 6 | US: 6 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Lance Corporal Derek W. Jones

US Captain Robert M. Secher

US Private 1st Class Shane R. Austin

US Lance Corporal Stephen F. Johnson

US Lance Corporal Jeremy Scott Sandvick Monroe

US Specialist Timothy Fulkerson

07-Oct-2006 4 | US: 4 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Specialist John Edward Wood

US Sergeant Lawrence Parrish

US Corporal Carl W. Johnson II

US Sergeant Brandon S. Asbury

06-Oct-2006 4 | US: 3 | UK: 0 | Other: 1
US Lance Corporal John Edward Hale

US Corporal Bradford H. Payne

US Corporal Nicholas A. Arvanitis

DK Konstabel Martin Hjorth

04-Oct-2006 6 | US: 6 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Corporal Benjamin S. Rosales

US Lance Corporal Edward M. Garvin

US Staff Sergeant Christopher O. Moudry

US Specialist George R. Obourn Jr.

US Specialist Timothy Burke

US Private 1st Class Dean Bright

03-Oct-2006 2 | US: 2 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Staff Sergeant Jonathan Rojas

US Staff Sergeant Daniel Isshak

02-Oct-2006 9 | US: 8 | UK: 1 | Other: 0
US Sergeant Joseph W. Perry

US Private 1st Class Michael K. Oremus

US Specialist Justin R. Jarrett

US Staff Sergeant James D. Ellis

US Specialist Raymond S. Armijo

US Specialist Kristofer C. Walker

US Private 1st Class Satieon V. Greenlee

US Staff Sergeant Joe A. Narvaez

UK Lance Corporal Dennis Brady

01-Oct-2006 6 | US: 6 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Sergeant Denise A. Lannaman

US Sergeant Mario Nelson

US Corporal Chase A. Haag

US Captain Justin D. Peterson

US Lance Corporal Christopher B. Cosgrove III

US Corporal Aaron L. Seal

[w8liftinglady]

8. My latest LTTE is dedicated to these brave guys.RIP

It Runs today.May we find justice for these unnecessary deaths in international court someday.

Our president says he never meant "stay the course"-even though this has been a consistent component of his,and his cohorts',rhetoric.Almost three thousand soldiers are dead,while the Republican Party tries to backtrack and deny.Twenty thousand soldiers are wounded and maimed,missing limbs,horribly burned,and scarred in their souls-while Republicans now say they are looking at a timeline-the same thing they crucified John Murtha over.It is election time,and the Republicans are paying lip service to the disgruntled masses.Too late,Republicans-your lying,amoral ways betray the Christianity you so vehemently profess to practice.The number of dead,injured soldiers betray your "desire" for peace and love among men.The TRUE numbers of poor,homeless,and struggling people in America betray your "desire" to help the poor.The sheer numbers of sick,uninsured people in this country-with our emergency rooms bursting at the seams,betray your "desire" to help the sick.You have betrayed your Christian base,Republicans,and now only cater to the super wealthy,who have also sold their souls for the almighty dollar.I hope the Democrats conquer the House and Senate this November,and investigate every one of these elected officials who have profited from this insane,immoral war.It is early voting time.Let these "servants of the people" be accountable for their crimes.

[Bluebear]

10. What a wonderful letter, lady. nt

[Binka]

11. Yes Wonderful Letter

As a mom of a wounded vet whom I might add is being pressured to go back please keep the heat up.

This beautiful kid does not need to PROVE anything. But they are telling him he does.