Three Soldiers Killed

[protect freedom impeach bush now]

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=3545048

U.S. Seeks Agreement on Iraq; Three Soldiers Killed
Thu October 2, 2003 04:07 AM ET

By Andrew Marshall
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Guerrilla attacks in Iraq killed three U.S. soldiers within a few hours, the Army said on Thursday, as Washington pressed on with diplomatic efforts to garner help in stabilizing the volatile nation.
A U.S. Army spokesman said a soldier from the 4th Infantry Division was killed Wednesday evening in a rocket-propelled grenade attack on a convoy driving through the hostile town of Samarra, in the heart of the restive "Sunni triangle" region.

A female soldier from the same division was killed earlier Wednesday and three soldiers were wounded when guerrillas detonated a remote-control bomb as a convoy drove past in deposed dictator Saddam Hussein's home town of Tikrit.
U.S. troops based in Saddam's sprawling former palaces in Tikrit come under regular grenade and mortar attack but Wednesday's ambush was one of the boldest yet. The bomb was planted just 300 meters (yards) from the palace gates.
In Baghdad, an attacker with a small-caliber handgun ambushed soldiers after dark Wednesday in the upscale Mansur neighborhood, killing one and wounding another, the Army said.

The attacks brought to at least 84 the number of U.S. soldiers killed in action since Washington declared major combat over on May 1, according to Pentagon figures

more.........

[leftofthedial]

1. Awwwww shit!

Make this nightmare end!

[clar]

2. It just keeps getting worse

and we pay it less and less attention. Americans have retreated into a state of denial. Even here at DU, these announcements get little of the attention they deserve. I feel so impotent. What can we do?

[this_side_up]

3. This has to stop

but since it looks like it won't, then I hope every
member of BushCo and their entire families and all
of their friends and anyone else who is sucking up
money from this....I wish you all neverending
nightmares galore. This is probably bad karma for me
but I don't care: All of you are responsible for
all of the deaths in Iraq.

On a positive note: my neighbor has seen the light;
awakened from her Republican-induced trance and is
incredibly pissed. NOW she understands what I've been
saying since Nov 2000.

[proud patriot]

4. It really must stop

I feel ill everytime I hear of injury
let alone deaths :-(

[not systems]

5. These 3 and their families deserve sympathy.

Not Rush.

[camero]

6. You know it's getting bad

When they don't even name the soldiers that are killed anymore in the papers. It's almost as if they are saying, "There's too many for us to use the space to name."

I think there is going to be and "Iraq Wall" after this is over. Let's get Bush out now.

[Lexingtonian]

7. how saddening....

One of the ones killed the day before yesterday was from a town near mine. They showed his father, a mournful gentle little man with glasses, with tears in his eyes on the evening news last night. He had that forgiving but lost look to him. The 20 year-old who looked very innocent and kind in the recruitment photo was his only son. You know he'll never really get over it. The newscasters were graceful but terse and quickly went on to other things.

So that's where we are. It's gone wrong and the consolations there are are wearing very thin. Two more died yesterday, three more today, and decent common people don't see a mission in it anymore.

That elderly little man just made me hurt. It really felt like a profound sin to hurt a kind and gentle soul like that, to rob him of the one person he must have loved and given him reason for some overt pride. We lost not one but two to that one bullet or grenade. And that is the sort of offense, repeated hundreds of times already and with many more to follow, that is turning out to be the substance of this Iraq adventure.

Three more today. Three more.