U.S. Soldier Killed in Baghdad Explosion (NEW)

[bluestateguy]

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A roadside bomb killed one U.S. soldier and injured three others Saturday in an explosion near the Ministry of the Interior, the U.S. military said.

U.S. soldiers blocked off the site of the explosion, which had targeted a passing convoy, witnesses said. Helicopters circled overhead, and one took the wounded to a combat hospital.

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040605/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_explosion&cid=540&ncid=716

[freetobegay]

1. Same headline different day.

On a side note when it comes to G.W. Bushs death I am sure there are some here who will tell us we have to respect him because he was human, a husband, & a father.

[physioex]

2. I hope he takes his money and is never seen or heard from again...

Him, Dick, and the rest of his crooked neo-con administration...

[VolcanoJen]

3. Since saigon68 is probably in bed...

... I'll say it for him.

BRING 'EM ON!! SCREAMED THE GUTLESS, COWARDLY CHIMP-KING.

Or, something to that effect.

:-(

And the beat goes on...

[saigon68]

11. Thanks Jen !!! Old tired Vets have to sleep now and then

Even Mrs saigon is complaining about the casualties lately. After you've seen one Cluster Fuck--its hard to just sit back and watch a season of REPEATS

The Shameful Cowardly CHIMPANZEE is going to France tomorrow. I hope the press and public ignores the BASTARD

HE is NOT MY SYMBOL of Amerika--- and not at all Representative of the men in my family who actually served in the last 6 Amerikan wars simce 1917.

To the French people who see the COWARD I say

Nous sommes desoles que notre president soit un idiot. Nous n'avons pas vote pour lui.

Il est un lâche

[gottaB]

4. My condolonces

Watched PBS tonight. The talking heads were concluding that it had been a successful week for Mr. Bush and that things had gone well in Iraq. The smoke hadn't cleared from the footage of the charred vehicles. You could see the marines carrying off bodies. You could smell the death right through the tube.

And the talking heads insisted it was a good week. I got a sense that maybe their hearts weren't in it, that at some level they knew they were acting phony. I hope to God their hearts weren't in it--but who am I to judge? Is it so bad to die for a lie? Worse than dying for a fool? A psychotic delusion? An intellectual fad? A book, revered and fetishized, as the world it represents exceeds its finitude?

Oh, there were signs. There always are. Now I watch media tv with the express purpose of seeing the punditry flinch at their own thoughts, gag on their own words. Not much, a glance, twitchy finger, sagged shoulders--Ah, yes, the weight of the world, or a guilty conscience, or the posture of the downtrodden. It's an unmistakable slump. Do I delight in it? No, not even in being subversive. It's like eating stale bread and being glad you're alive--a dear, dear punishment, or penance, as you will.

So, my condolences to the friends and the family of the soldier who was killed Saturday. Surely there are people in this country who deserve that kind of sacrifice.

[FlemingsGhost]

5. How are we going to stop this madness?

I know! ... Let's deploy 40,000 more troops.

[Judi Lynn]

6. He may be number 824, if this link is current

Maybe a DU'er knows more about this link than I do. I found it at DU in a post:

http://www.icasualties.org/oif/

Eight hundred twenty four is 824 too many. God only knows what the real number is, anyway.......

Very, very sad. Why was it o.k. for him and all the others to suffer and die? Were they born to be wasted? Are they expendable? Are they less important than any of us?

[teryang]

7. Looks like lunaville

Thanks for posting this, I was looking for it.

[catmandu57]

12. It is Lunaville

they've changed over to Iraq casualties. I'm wearing tinfoil, I believe tyhere are many, many more dead that they are'nt reporting, but we won't find out about them for years.

[0007]

8. Bring the troops home - free Iraq

[Mari333]

9. all for nothing, and more families will wake up to hell today

all
for
nothing.

bring the troops home now.

http://www.bringthemhomenow.com

[Judi Lynn]

10. We're thinking of you and yours, Mari333, always. n/t

[Mari333]

13. Thanks Judi, I will believe Bush will end up dragged out in chains

I will believe it, every day.