I don't like the looks of this

[NNN0LHI]

Iraqi fighters muster forces during a gun battle with U.S. forces in the streets of Karbala, 110 kilometers south of Baghdad Friday Oct. 17, 2003. A midnight clash with Shiite militants in the same location left three U.S. military policemen and nine Iraqis dead. (AP Photo/Greg Baker)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nyt/20031017/ts_nyt/4americansoldiersarekilledin2newattacksiniraq&cid=68&ncid=1480

4 American Soldiers Are Killed in 2 New Attacks in Iraq

Three American soldiers were killed in the Shiite holy city of Karbala late Thursday night and another soldier was killed in Baghdad this morning, military officials said today.

Two Iraqi security officers were also killed and five were wounded in the Karbala attack outside the headquarters of a Shiite cleric.

At about 11:30 p.m. on Thursday a patrol of American military police and Iraqi security forces was ambushed near the Imam Abbas Mosque in Karbala, about 50 miles south of Baghdad.

The patrol was investigating reports of armed men congregating on a road near the mosque after a 9 p.m. curfew, the United States Central Command said in a statement.

Three 101st Airborne Division military police soldiers were killed and seven were wounded in an exchange of small-arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades.

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[NNN0LHI]

1. Or this

Thousands of Iraqi Shiite's gather for Friday prayers in Sadr City, the largest Shiite Muslim enclave in Baghdad, Friday Oct. 17, 2003. Three American soldiers were killed and seven were wounded in a midnight clash at a Shiite Muslim cleric's headquarters in Karbala, south of Baghdad. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

[JNelson6563]

9. Don I think you should forward this to

WhiteHouse.org. I don't think they know about this. They keep telling us it's all good so they must not know otherwise, right? Right? I mean, it's not like they would lie to us!

Disgusted with the mess and the lies.

Julie

[TeeYiYi]

15. Those look like Al Qaeda to me . . .

Are you sure those aren't Al Qaeda. I'm pretty sure our pResident said they are luring Al Qaeda to Iraq like flies to flypaper. That looks like flypaper to me. And that one there toward the front looks like Osama bin Forgotten. I think those are thousands of Al Qaeda. Are you sure those aren't Al Qaeda? . . .

Al Qaeda :bounce: Al Qaeda :bounce: Al Qaeda :bounce: Al Qaeda :bounce: Al Qaeda :bounce: Al Qaeda :bounce: Al Qaeda :bounce: Al Qaeda

TYY

[morebunk]

19. Hey, we are occupying their country based on a bunch of lies...

Whatever happens is on the Bush administration's hands no matter how they try to spin it.

The first story I heard about this was that the Iraqis were Shiite armed to protect their mosque. They ventured away from the mosque into the street in front of the mosque and US and Polish soldiers fired on them, thus the ensuing gun battle. Of course, the original story was not repeated on the news, but that is how it was presented early this morning either on one of our main news channels (cable- i don't remember which one.)

[DisgustipatedinCA]

2. What's not to like?

The guy on the far right with the assault rifle has his arms open wide, no doubt to welcome us, just like the administration said they would. And look at the guy on the far left. He's no doubt signaling that the US is #1. No need to read the pesky words accompanying the picture.

[Fuzz]

4. Those are bags of flowers too

[Guaranteed]

3. But SURELY it looks worse than it really is. Right?

Those aren't REAL guns they're using. And look at them smiling!

[Mari333]

5. Isnt * golfing today?

yes, or fund raising. and I have to sit and pray for 9 more days that my son isnt deployed anywhere.
Come on Levin, call him back and tell him you are keeping him from going anywhere.

[NNN0LHI]

6. Here is "Bring them on" showing his concern for our dead soldiers

U.S. President George W. Bush and Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, right, laugh following a meeting and dinner together at the State Guest House in Tokyo as Bush makes his first stop on a nine-day trip to Asia and Australia, Friday, Oct. 17, 2003. Bush and Koizumi are focusing on trade issues and financing the ongoing war on terror before joining other Pacific Rim leaders at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit, APEC, in Bankok, Thailand on Sunday. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

[peekaloo]

8. Will they be dining together?

Japanese payback.....puke on DimSon.

Boosh sure has united them Eye-Racki's, ain't he?

[DisgustipatedinCA]

7. No, he's creating international diplomatic gaffes

I saw the tail-end of a segment explaining that someone (Bush, probably, but I didn't see all of the report) referred to the Japan trip as a "layover". This, after Japan pledged 1.5bn to Iraq/Halliburton, and they're considering sending troops.

Then again, he may have time to squeeze in a round of golf during his layover.

[blondeatlast]

10. You and your son are in my thoughts and prayers.

Not a day goes by that I don't pray for our children over there, and for their children as well.

Rumsfeld out.
UN in charge!

[DS1]

11. is that a new walking R2-D2 bomb on the right?

/sorry

[Solomon]

12. The real war is just starting.

Meanwhile, out in the outlying areas, pipelines are being blown up.

What a mess.

[Q]

13. I once posted...before the war...that even Bush* wasn't dumb enough...

...to try to fight an urban war and then occupy Iraq.

- Looks like I was wrong.

[dbt]

14. IRAQ NAM

Pass it on.

:cry:
dbt

[Aidoneus]

16. a sword?!

that picture in the first reply doesn't bother me as I know they're very politically active and the Friday gatherings are indicitive of this, but what's up with that fellow with the sword?!

[hatrack]

18. The sword reminds me of the movie "Gardens Of Stone"

I don't know if you've seen it, but there's one very telling bit of dialogue. In the scene, a young Lt. describes his tour in Vietnam and tells how a helicopter came back to base one day with a spear stuck in it.

Lt. - (dialogue paraphrase) "How do you fight a helicopter with a spear?"

Friend - "How do you fight someone who's willing to take on a helicopter with a spear?"

[twilight]

17. crippers!

They say these are Iraqi fighters eh? Well they appear to be fairly well-dressed citiznes that must bear arms it seems to me. Where are the uniforms - are there any? I did not know that men wore dress shoes and slacks when they were fighting.

This is a sad and frightening situation indeed. I find the whole thing to be a big friggin mess and * has gotten the USA into it. How will we ever get out of it?

DENNIS J. KUCINICH FOR PRESIDENT IN 2004 - that is how!!!!



U.N. IN AND THE U.S OUT OF IRAQ NOW!!!

Bring our troops home NOW!