SEVEN US Soldiers DEAD in the last 2 Days!

[leftchick]

One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty Two Dead so far for a criminal War! Has this been brought up at all on TV??? :grr:


:(

25-Jul-2005 1 | US: 1 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Samarra (near) - Salah ad-Din Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
24-Jul-2005 6 | US: 6 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Ernest Dallas Jr. Not reported yet Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Baghdad (southwest part) Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Baghdad (southwest part) Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Baghdad (southwest part) Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Baghdad (southwest part) Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Balad (near) - Salah ad-Din Hostile - hostile fire - mortar attack


http://icasualties.org/oif/prdDetails.aspx?hndRef=7-2005

[acmavm]

1. Except for places like this you'll have a hard time finding mention of

the casualties anywhere.

Yahoo is about the most 'mainstream' source that I've seen that will put up stories about the deaths of our men/women in Iraq.

[leftchick]

2. I checked Yahoo and google

Nada! Zip! Nothing!!!

[acmavm]

5. Yahoo will probably pick it up later. I don't ever check google.

What pisses me off is the 'support the troops' shit that they always throw at everyone, even if it's a guy caught on film shooting an unarmed wounded man. But then when they make the supreme sacrifice, albeit against their will, no mention. In that case, they don't give a damn.

[Justice]

3. So sad

[ClintonTyree]

4. Not important...........

protecting Karl Rove is job one at the moment. These dead soldiers would understand. Their Commander in Chief is under siege by the "Liberal Media".
Honestly, how much longer do we wait to withdraw out troops? How many more will have to die before King George realizes what a fantastic fuck up he's been? How long before the American people DEMAND a withdrawal of our troops from a war that was predicated upon the lies of our government officials? HOW LONG?

[DemonFighterLives]

6. Bring them home now!

Seems the war news has been getting more quiet every day. I guess we are supposed to be led to believe all is well there, free and fair elections were held, democracy is on the march.
:argh:

[G_j]

7. "This is Now an Unwinnable Conflict"

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0724-02.htm

Published on Sunday, July 24, 2005 by the lndependent/UK

Iraq: This is Now an Unwinnable Conflict

As he completes another tour of duty in the chaos of Iraq, award-winning reporter Patrick Cockburn charts how Bush and Blair's 'winnable war' turned into a mess that is inspiring a worldwide insurgency

by Patrick Cockburn

The Duke of Wellington, warning hawkish politicians in Britain against ill-considered military intervention abroad, once said: "Great nations do not have small wars." He meant that supposedly limited conflicts can inflict terrible damage on powerful states. Having seen what a small war in Spain had done to Napoleon, he knew what he was talking about.


For future historians Iraq will probably replace Vietnam as the stock example of the truth of Wellington's dictum about small wars escalating into big ones.

The war in Iraq is now joining the Boer War in 1899 and the Suez crisis in 1956 as ill-considered ventures that have done Britain more harm than good. It has demonstrably strengthened al-Qa'ida by providing it with a large pool of activists and sympathizers across the Muslim world it did not possess before the invasion of 2003. The war, which started out as a demonstration of US strength as the world's only superpower, has turned into a demonstration of weakness. Its 135,000-strong army does not control much of Iraq.

The suicide bombing campaign in Iraq is unique. Never before have so many fanatical young Muslims been willing to kill themselves, trying to destroy those whom they see as their enemies. On a single day in Baghdad this month 12 bombers blew themselves up. There have been more than 500 suicide attacks in Iraq over the last year.


..more..

[lynettebro440]

9. And the best the news speaks to the idiots

out there is some Aruba missing person and Paris Hilton. No one cares anymore until it touches them personally. Then they care. It won't matter until everyone has lost someone "over there." It's a repeat of my 60's all over again. At least back then we saw the count on the evening news, US dead: Viet Cong dead: We aren't even doing that now. Sad, very, very sad.

[leftchick]

12. Thank you for the link G J....

I am printing it up to read in the car today. I am taking off for vacation and will be computerless for a week. I can only imagine the body count when I get back next week.

:cry:

[G_j]

14. thank you for your fortitude

you are such an asset to this board.

and enjoy your vacation to the fullest! You deserve it.
(should I say, try to stay cool?)
:-)

[leftchick]

15. I am going to NY State

no one has air conditioning there! At least the lakes are cold! Thank you G j and see ya when I get back.

:)

[G_j]

18. hey, that is my home turf

mostly,
born in Schenectady, later lived in Saranac for awhile.

That would a nice place to be right now.

see you later (but take your time and enjoy!)
:hi:

[TomClash]

8. Seriously

I usually insert a bad joke in response to Leftchick's casualty posts. But I'm not in the mood today, particularly after Myers called the service in Iraq "noble" urging others to sign up.

We should call for a selective draft of all 18-35 year old children of all Republican politicians nationwide. How about it?

[leftchick]

11. Sounds good to me....

Though I believe they have upped the age limit to 42 years old. Hear that you Komputer Kommando Freeper Freaks?!?

[TomClash]

20. I was being kind

by trying to limit the age to 35. But really why should old freepers be spared?

[Vinca]

10. The brave men and women dying for Dubya's folly are

becoming footnotes. How often is a dead soldier on the front page of the paper or the top story in a news broadcast? It reminds me of Vietnam. After awhile there were so many casualties they all blurred together and everyone forgot they were real people with real lives. It's happening again. They're turning into numbers.

[leftchick]

13. ....

[newportdadde]

16. First I've heard of it.

You know if I stay off of DU for a few days I would have no idea this stuff was happening.

[Lars39]

17. I update the deaths on my vehicle every time I go to town

in the hopes folks will actually start noticing the numbers.
It's absolutely sobering to see the numbers rise. :(

[KoKo]

19. Heard that two convoys were attacked over weekend but no death toll

was listed...I guess the Media has been told to lock it down. War is going well and we are bringing Democracy to the Middle East. At least Tony Blair was raving on this morning on C-Span speaking exactly like the Chimp.

Enjoy your vacation "left chick." ...upstate NY! Haven't been there in years but loved it when I was. :hi: