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[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Four U.S. Soldiers Killed in Roadside Blast in Baghdad
Saturday, April 22, 2006

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,192703,00.html

BAGHDAD, Iraq — A roadside bomb killed four U.S. soldiers in Iraq on Saturday, and the bodies of 12 Iraqis who apparently were tortured and killed in captivity were discovered by police, most of them on the streets of Baghdad. U.S. and Iraqi forces also fought an hour-long gunbattle with insurgents in Ramadi, a center of Iraq's Sunni Arab-dominated insurgency, and four militants were killed and two Iraqi soldiers wounded, American officials said.

Elsewhere, suspected insurgents also set off two bombs in a public market in northern Iraq, the second one timed to hit emergency crews arriving at the scene, and the blasts killed at least two Iraqis and wounded 17, police said.

The four U.S. Multinational Division-Baghdad soldiers were conducting a combat patrol south of the capital when the roadside bomb exploded and killed them. No other details were provided, including the name and rank of the deceased, while the attack was being investigated.

The deaths raised to 2,387 the number of members of the U.S. military who have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.



US President George W. Bush, whose relationship with Congress is increasingly strained, urged lawmakers to approve dozens of billions of dollars to fund military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.(AFP/File/Mandel Ngan)

[TomClash]

1. I will repeat my charge

Bush supporters like when US soldiers die. It makes them feel patriotic. It boosts their defense stocks. That's the twisted world they inhabit.

[CrazyOrangeCat]

2. We've got to get those poor kids . . .

. . . out of that NeoCon-created nightmare. We've got to take to the streets.

The Idiot-Chimp must be brought to justice.

:mad:

[PuraVidaDreamin]

3. Just Tuesday the number of soldiers lied to and died was 2377

10 more soldiers have been murdered by Bush's evil lies in just 5 days.


This photo was taken on Tuesday when Cape Codders for Peace and Justice
had a sit-in in Congressman Delahunts office asking him to sign on
to Jim McGovern's HR 4232. I had to change the number on my shirt
I had readied for the action Monday night from 2373 to 2377 the
next morning.

And while our rich congressmen talk and debate our
less fortunate sons and daughter keep dying.

[partylessinOhio]

4. From a link on that page:

"Astrid van Genderen Stort, the Mideast spokeswoman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, said there has been a "significant increase" in the number of Iraqis who are leaving their country, although the agency does not have specific numbers for the period since the shrine bombing.

Most of those leaving have gone to Jordan and Syria, and some to Egypt, she said.

In 2004, 358 Iraqis had registered with the UNHCR as refugees in Egypt, van Genderen Stort said. The number jumped to 828 in the period from early 2005 to late March 2006.

Iraqi embassies in the three countries say they also have no numbers on how many Iraqis have fled within the last two months. But overall, officials in Jordan say there are 250,000 Iraqis legally residing in the kingdom. Unofficial estimates put the number at 600,000, at least."

What has the Decider done to our troops and the Iraqi people?