Roadside bomb kills four GIs and four Iraqi troops

[lebkuchen]

Deadly roadside bombings

The four Americans were killed in two separate bombings Friday night near Beiji, 155 miles north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said Saturday. Four Iraqi National Guardsmen died in a roadside bombing early Saturday in Basra, Iraq’s second largest city.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6913272/

Note to Lt. General Mattis: Apparently, Muslims-out-for-revenge feel the same way you do about killing, in this case, killing the occupational forces. In the future, should you feel the urge to blurt out another "bring 'em on" comment, please, sir, do our troops a favor and keep your mouth shut.

[Flagg]

1. 'Bring'em on !'

[leftchick]

2. 1447, and I don't think these 4 are included....

Military Fatalities: By Time Period

Period US UK Other* Total Avg Days
3 590 26 27 643 2.9 222
2 717 27 58 802 1.89 424
1 140 33 0 173 4.02 43
Total 1447 86 85 1618 2.35 689

To View Period Details Click The Period Number
Time Periods Defined
Latest Fatality: Feb 04, 2005


Military Fatalities: By Month
Period US UK Other* Total Avg Days
2-2005 7 0 0 7 1.4 5

:(

[lebkuchen]

4. MSNBC has just changed its story to 17 Iraqis killed, 2 US killed

The two American soldiers from Task Force Danger were killed in a roadside bombing Friday night near Beiji, 155 miles north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said Saturday. The military had said a second roadside blast in the same area killed two more American soldiers, but later said that report was wrong.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6913272/

[leftchick]

8. The US military is hiding the deaths as best they can...

eventually the truth will come out and it will be much worse than they are sdmitting to.

:(

[hector459]

11. I think those numbers are off. It's over 1500 by now. What's being left

out?

[VirginiaDem]

3. Article also has Sistani coalition way up over Allawi n/t

[mainer]

5. ditto on your note to Mattis

When he said, "it's a hoot to go out and kill," I kept imagining an enemy soldier yelling that as he took aim at a US Marine. Not such a hoot now, is it, general?

[mediaman007]

6. "That's too bad. Now watch this Drive!"

[Just Me]

7. Freedom to die on the march.

Too bad the neoCONspirators aren't walking in the shoes of those unto whom they violently delivered "freedom",...to die.

[bemildred]

9. "It's worth it" -- G. W. Bush

[LibDemAlways]

10. Chimp's unspoken qualifier:

"as long as it's not my ass on the line."

[bemildred]

12. True, "worth it" to whom is a good question. nt