5 More US Troops Dead - How bad is it? Read this from the NYT.

[stopbush]

The New York Times
March 31, 2004
5 U.S. Soldiers Are Killed in Bomb Attack West of Baghdad
By JOHN F. BURNS and JEFFREY GETTLEMAN

BAGHDAD, Iraq, March 31 — In the deadliest day in weeks for coalition troops in Iraq, five American soldiers were killed today when a bomb exploded under their vehicle west of Baghdad today, the United States military said.

In a separate incident in downtown Falluja, a mob attacked a group of foreign contractors, shooting four people to death, burning their two vehicles, dragging their bodies through the streets and hanging the charred corpses from a bridge.


The steadily deteriorating security situation in the Falluja area, west of Baghdad, has become so dangerous that no American troops or Iraqi security staff members responded to the attack today. There are a number of police stations in Falluja and a base of more than 4,000 marines nearby. But even while the two vehicles burned, sending plumes of inky smoke over the closed shops of the city, there were no ambulances, no fire engines and no security present.

Here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/31/international/worldspecial/31CND-IRAQ.html?hp=&pagewanted=print&position=

[not systems]

1. This is Bremer is getting ready to run.

US out now!

How do you tell a father his daughter was the last soldier to die for a lie?

[dennis4868]

2. didn't Kerry in 1971 say.....

How do you tell a father his daughter was the last soldier to die for a lie?

[diamond14]

3. 10 year old boy: "Where is Bush? Let him come here and see this!"

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Nearby, a boy no older than 10 put his foot on the head of a body and said: "Where is Bush? Let him come here and see this!"

Many people in the crowd said they felt as if they had won an important battle. Others said they thought that the contractors, who were driving in four-wheel-drive trucks, were working for the Central Intelligence Agency.

"This is what these spies deserve," said Salam Aldulayme, a 28-year-old Falluja resident.

After the attack, residents told The A.P. that the burned cars contained weapons and that some of the bodies were dressed in flak jackets. The A.P. television network showed one American passport near a body and a United States Department of Defense identification card belonging to another man.

[wtmusic]

4. No doubt it will be upstaged by * allowing Condi to testify

n/c

[Mari333]

5. Please help Michael and the other kids over there please

and call your congresspeople and senators right now and demand our kids be sent home I beg you for my sake, my husbands sake, Michael who is in Baghdad right now under mortar attack daily, and please call for all our kids there please call them and tell them to bring the troops home now
please

[Jacobin]

6. Apparently, they have taken back part of their country

The commanders over there have instructions to keep the troops in bunkers and not to travel unless absolutely necessary, so that the body count won't mess up Smirky's re-selection chances.

Our troops are basically surrounded in bunkers by highly pissed off and well armed Iraqis.

Begs the question of who has conquered whom.