Loud Explosions and Gunfire heard in Central Bagdad

[minkyboodle]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&e=2&u=/nm/20040327/ts_nm/iraq_dc

[Sugarbleus]

1. Seems like the TV has been showing less and less coverage of

these disturbances in Iraq lately....thanks for the link

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

2. Did you notice this?

"The Marine's death took to 400 the number of U.S. troops killed by hostile action since the start of the war last March to oust Saddam."

What, now we're only counting deaths by hostile action???

How many more have to die?

[minkyboodle]

3. it seems

that every different article has a different number of dead listed these days. I have decided to go by the lunaville one and hope to god that there aren't more that I don't know about. Its unbelievably tragic.
Scott

[Gloria]

7. Funny, I heard a BBC World Servicereport today or yesterday saying 400....

it woke me up!

[Minstrel Boy]

9. How is it that they ALL start singing from the same songbook?

This numbers game is maddening and dishonours the dead. It's only because we pay attention that we're on to them.

[UpInArms]

12. the NYT has an accurate count tonight

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/27/international/middleeast/27LIST.html?ex=1080968400&?en=a768ac36fdb29b5a&?ei=5062&?partner=GOOGLE

The Department of Defense has identified 589 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war. It confirmed the death of the following Americans yesterday:

BURGESS, Jeffrey C., 20, Lance Cpl., Marines; Plymouth, Mass., Wing Support Squadron 373, Wing Support Group 37, Third Aircraft Wing, First Expeditionary Force.

I count one more from today (Friday) so it should be 590

[oasis]

14. McLaughlin reported that there were over 14,000 wounded evacuees

from Iraq and the Pentagon has refused to put out wounded figures for the last three months.

Tonight's "McLaughlin Group" on PBS. Check local listing for replay.

[theHandpuppet]

18. Credit "The Today Show"...

... for reporting the accurate number of dead. I noticed this just a couple of days ago. At least they aren't getting creative with the numbers, like some other so-called "news" programs.

[lebkuchen]

15. When I write letters to papers, I cite the coalition force casualty count

as well as Iraqi civilian casualties. Each fatality, no matter from which country, is one more unnecessary death resulting in Bush's preemptive flight of fancy.

[NNN0LHI]

4. Its probably just some enthusiastic celebratory gunfire?

Yea. Thats the ticket.

Don

[yardwork]

5. Right! They're celebrating their freedom!

Uh-huh.

[minkyboodle]

6. Update

looks like it was a roadside bomb
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&e=2&u=/nm/20040327/ts_nm/iraq_dc

[dArKeR]

8. I didn't hear Kerry mention Dennis' name at the Unity Party. Why?

[jmatthan]

10. Dennis did not attend for his reasons

When he was interviewed by Amy Goodman, Dennis said what he had to say. He is still in the race for the President so as to show Kerry where the Democratic party should stand on issues of withdrawal from Iraq, health, trade, etc where he defers from Kerry.

He said that he continues to be in the race to focus on the issues that he has raised. He is not quitting just because he cannot win. He is there for a purpose and he clearly articulated that purpose. So obviously he was not going to attend a party which wants to crown Kerry as king when he is still in the race!!!

Correctly put, Dennis is the Democratic party's antidote for Nader. Kerry should listen and understand what Dennis is bringing to the agenda.

That is what I particularly like about Dennis - he stays the full course with his beliefs.

Jacob Matthan
http://www.findians.com/educated.html
Oulu, Finland

[tlcandie]

11. A compass for us to find our way....out of this hell we've created

if only the people could really see and hear it could be more than a dream.

[Voltaire99]

13. Kucinich is not "the party's antidote for Nader"

Dennis is a great man. Better, probably, than his diluted and bereft party deserves.

It's a mistake, however, to frame him as the Dems's "antidote to Nader," as if Dennis can cure progressives of their Nader habit--or as if he is some kind of magnet that can pull disillusioned idealists back into the camp.

Nader and Dennis are quite similar on the issues, but philosophically they're miles apart. Most importantly, Dennis doesn't follow Nader's critique of our two parties as a corrupt duopoly. Dennis thinks it's still possible to change the party, to work reform from within.

Is it? Maybe for the length of a campaign, in speeches, although the corporate media have given him little coverage and even less respect. And it's Dennis who's soon going to cave and endorse Kerry, despite holding views diametrically opposed to those of the nominee.

And it's Dennis who's going to see nearly his entire platform ignored in this next election.

At its best, this is bold, defiant principle. At worst, it's a kind of self-imposed ineffectuality. It arises from a refusal to look hard enough at how broken the system is. And it arguably can do mischief: by encouraging belief in reform when you ultimately plan to tell people to accept its opposite, Dennis provides idealists with a kind of false hope--a shibboleth of change, fated to end in acquiescence. And that's a tragedy.

[fishnfla]

16. can you explain to me what this has to do with roadside bombs in Iraq?

Why do you hacks alway jack serious threads with political bullshit?

[theHandpuppet]

19. Very well said, Voltaire

You've articulated my own feelings as well so I'll just thank you for the post.

[fishnfla]

17. dupe

[m-jean03]

20. Bring EM ON, sniggered the AWOL chimpanzee --

And bring it on, the resistance did.