Attacks Kill Three U.S. Troops, 33 Iraqis

[SodoffBush]

Thank god for the Super Bowl. Americans couldn't care less about Iraq's deteriorating by the half hour.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20050206/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

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Strong detonations rumbled through Baghdad at sunset, and police said insurgents had fired mortar shells near Baghdad's international airport.

A U.S. Marine was killed Saturday during "security and stability operations" in Bail province south of Baghdad, the U.S. command said. Two American soldiers were killed in a roadside bombing Friday night near the town of Beiji, about 155 miles north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said Saturday.

A roadside bomb killed four Iraqi national guardsmen early Saturday in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city. Gunmen stormed a police station in the northern city of Mosul, killing five officers, police said.

Elsewhere, insurgents assassinated a member of the Baghdad city council, Abbas Hasan Waheed, and a member of Iraq's intelligence service in two separate drive-by shootings.

Bombs and clashes killed seven Iraqis in Samarra and Tal Afar, north of Baghdad, and in Ramadi, to the west.

Eight bodies were found Saturday in Anbar province — five in Ramadi and three in the town of Baghdadi — and residents said they were believed to be Iraqis who worked for the Americans or Iraqi security services.

The extremist Ansar al-Sunnah Army posted a video on an Islamist Web site Saturday showing seven people being shot. The group said the seven were Iraqi National Guardsmen captured two days ago in an ambush west of Baghdad.

[rainy]

1. I hate GW

[0007]

2. Bring the troops home today and stop this stupid killing

[ckramer]

3. "It's worth it!" The little George shouted

[Oversea Visitor]

4. As long as bush is in the WH

I dont think there be a withdrawal. Resign to 4 years of killing.

[acmavm]

5. It's easy to ignore what you don't see, and what is basically ingored

by most of the press.

And hey, the Iraqis are bad guys who are fighting our glorious troops in their own country. How dare they do that? And our sons, daughters, fathers, mothers, aunts, uncles and cousins in uniform, they're fighting to spread freedom! As in 'let freedom reign'. And the Iraqis just had free elections. Nevermind that they didn't elect a government and forget the fact that no one knew who the hell they were voting for. And so what if the different sections of the population are starting to demand the top spot if there ever is a new government, possibly igniting a civil war. None of this matters because so far is only a relatively small number of families in this country who are devastated and heartbroken. And dead Iraqis, who cares about them? They're not worth worrying or crying about.

If there is Karma, this frigging country is in for some God awful paybacks. The lack of feeling and guilt in a large chunk of the population is appalling. The poor soldiers and their families are all dead, dead for a lie and oil. And hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians are too. And people go around pretending that we have some kind of claim to the moral high-ground.

What the hell are we going to do? Besides sit idly by and watch this administration attack more countries under the guise of 'speading liberty'.

[Cha]

6. Makes me sick!...superbowls..

$50 million inaugerals..mindless consumerism..a chimp giving a sotu full of scams and lies..

[murray hill farm]

7. Bush will get his one day.....

and i hope it is soon and if not soon, then let it be slow and painful...or..better yet...long imprisonment without legal representation and indefinite where he can get a taste of his own brand of torture...i really hate him.

[TacticalPeek]

8. WMD? That was just a convenient deception, suckers! Hahaha!

[TomClash]

9. The Neocon Soldier's Creed

1. Dying is part of their job

2. Thank you for dying so I can drive my SUV and improve my energy portfolio

3. Good luck shopping at funeraldepot.com

4. We're paying them more when they die - what more do they want?

5. We call them brave men but we really think they are chumps

[teryang]

10. This is the republican system- war, war profits, and reaction

...reaction in the form of diverting the resources and dismantling the laws that favor people other than the corporate rich.

[Mark E. Smith]

11. All This So Iraq Could Elect A Pro-Iran Theocracy?

Bush's Iraq war is a blunder of historic proportions. The Iraqi election, which the right here seemed to put so much stock in, turned out a massive anti-US vote, empowering Shi'ite Islamic fundamentalists whose first order of business will be to demand we get our asses out of their country and invite in Iran to deal with their traditional Sunni enemies. The consequences will be both long-lasting and devastating to our interests in both the Middle East and South Asia.

My question is this: Did Bush really think the Iraqi election would help our interests there, or was it just a politically expedient attempt to make it appear that he actually had something going on during the 2004 elections here? To me the resulting victory of Grand Ayatollah Ali al Sistani and his followers was obvious, and even someone as inept as this president should have been able to foresee this result.

Bush will go down in history as one of the worst leaders to ever guide the fortunes of a major power.

[SodoffBush]

12. Excellent question, Mark

I've wondered the same.

[NNN0LHI]

13. We must find the one legged terror mastermind al-Zarqawi

Even if he turns out to be John Dimitri Negroponte's alter ego dammit.

Don