Another American killed in Iraq

[sabra]

Source: AP

BAGHDAD (AP) - Despite a general downturn in violence, another American soldier has been killed in Iraq.

A statement by the military today says the soldier was shot to death yesterday in an attack in southern Baghdad. The soldier's name is being withheld until the family is notified.

Read more: http://www.kplctv.com/Global/story.asp?S=7496802

[TwilightGardener]

1. God bless and RIP. The death toll is low this month, but that didn't

help this poor guy. Who wants to be the last to die to keep the hornet's nest quiet? None of this is worth soldiers' lives.

[LynnTheDem]

2. The death toll always drops this time of the year.

It's damned cold in Iraq in the winter.

It'll pick up again come Spring, and the rightwingnuts will drag out some "last throes" mantra to fool themselves with.

And more blood soaks into the sands.

[Solly Mack]

3. Another American killed in Iraq (what a headline)

tomorrow's will be - Yet another American killed in Iraq


then Yet even more Americans killed in Iraq


Ah..nothing like antiseptic death

but then Iraq/Afghan deaths have been just as sanitized