Two US soldiers killed and one wounded in Iraq

[maddezmom]

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two U.S. soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division were killed and another wounded in an attack northwest of Tikrit on March 16, the U.S. military said in a statement on Saturday.


It said the soldiers were killed and wounded in an "indirect fire attack" on Contingency Operating Base Speicher, which is northwest of ousted former President Saddam Hussein's hometown.

The wounded soldier is being treated in a local military medical facility. The names of all the soldiers are being withheld pending notification of next of kin," the military said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060318/wl_nm/iraq_soldiers_death_dc_1

[northofdenali]

1. ..

:cry:

[saigon68]

14. 'BRING EM ON" shouted the AWOL CHIMAPANZEE

As he played with his food in his high chair.

[Erika]

2. And we are there because?

It's the corporate slaughter of U.S. troops for corporate globalist profits. It needs to called what it is.

[ismnotwasm]

3. More broken hearts

It never stops

[babylonsister]

4. We need to figure out what we all can do to stop this. Seriously. nt

[Erika]

5. W will continue the wars in Iraq & Afganistan as long as profits

to the corporatists continues. We pay the bill, in $ and lives, and the corporations reap the profit. Bush world. It seems fair to him.

[JohnnyRingo]

6. Wouldn't want the place to fall into "chaos" now would we?

Three years later and mothers still await the call that will change the family's lives forever.

Three Godamned years and all they can spout is "a dozen elections" that amount to nothing and the freakin' "schools are open".

I heard on a news show that it was amazing that the Iraqi security force did so well at their latest war game because "they aren't good at this kind of thing".

Think about that. The country that had the fifth largest army in the world and pushed the Ayatolla back into Iran....isn't good at combat!

They can tell that to those mothers tomorrow when they call to inform them of their loss.

[madmark]

7. rest in peace, you died in a shitty war doing your duty; nothing could

be harder to do.

[acmavm]

8. These people haven't got a damn chance. They are rotated in and out

of that country two, three times at least. They don't have the protective gear to protect themselves. They don't want to be there so some of them are doing some pretty bad and stupid stuff which just makes the Iraqis hate them, even those just trying to do their time and get the hell out.

They are there because of lying greedy bastards who won't admit that they screwed the pooch because they'd rather our military men and women die than they 'lose face' and have to admit they were wwwrrrrooonnnngggg. (Actually they were lying.)

And now they're gonna send MORE troops over there. 300 Guardsmen from Nebraska, some troops that have been on stand by in Kuwait. Lord knows how many more they'll scrape up from who knows where. And if that isn't bad enough, these bloody fingered bastards keep talking about 'pre-emption' against Iran.

We are so screwed.

[0007]

9. Pile two more on!

Grass Bush

Pile the bodies high in Austerlitz and Waterloo Iraq
Shovel them under and let me work--
I am the grass; bush; I cover all.

And pile them high in Gettyburg Baghdad
And pile them high in Ypres and Vedum Tikrit and Al Fallaujah

Two years, ten years, and passengers ask the conductor:
What place is this?

I am the grass bush.
Let me work.

Carl Sandburg


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[theHandpuppet]

10. What the hell is an "indirect fire attack" anyway?

Is it possible for military spokespersons to speak English?

RIP, soldiers. I only wish we could have stopped this damnable war and brought you home safe. :(

[bemildred]

11. Probably mortar fire.

The Iraqis seem to be improving their aim of late, but it's hard to be sure out here in TV land.

[theHandpuppet]

15. How is getting killed by a mortar "indirect fire"?

Sorry -- but I don't get this.

[bemildred]

16. "direct" == you can see what you shoot at.

"indirect" == you can't see what you shoot at.

Thus, for example, shooting an assault weapon, RPG, or ATW is "direct fire".
Shooting artillery, rockets, or mortars is indirect fire.

This is still not quite right, since it is really the high trajectory that is
the issue, the fact that you don't aim at the target, but rather you compute a
ballistic trajectory that brings the bomb down on the target.

[PassingFair]

12. Two Thousand Three Hundred and Seventeen

http://icasualties.org/oif/

And growing.

How many Iraqi's?

We may not EVER know.

And the piggies here still
defend * and his policies.

I am becoming an unpleasant
dinner companion.

[grytpype]

13. Killed in their base.