Nine More U.S. Soldiers Killed in Iraq today. 13 killed so far this month

[LaPera]

In just the first 3 days of April, others missing could be dead...

And Bush just keeps on lying, the sick fuck loves the killing...He needs to be at war protected by being president while the country is "at war"...Chickenhawk bastard---Doesn't care how many die!!!

"Nine more American troops died in Iraq, the U.S. military reported Monday, five of them in a vehicle accident in a remote, rain-soaked western area. Their deaths brought the number of service members killed so far this month to 13 — nearly half the number who died in all of March.


Three more Americans — two Marines and a sailor — were missing in the Sunday accident in which a truck overturned near Asad air base, a U.S. statement said. All the dead were Marines, the statement added.


It gave no reason for the accident except that it was not a result of hostile fire. Heavy rains fell over the area during the weekend."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2006/04/03/international/i142245D05.DTL


Also Sunday, three Marines and a sailor were killed by "hostile fire" in Anbar province, which includes the Asad base, the military said. No further details, including the precise location, were released.


It was the first time that four American troops had been killed in a single attack since Feb. 22, when four soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division died in a bombing in northern Iraq.

[sce56]

1. And some Rethugs will say it was a vehicle accident so it don't count!

But if not for the war they would not have been there! You also did not mention the two crewmen of the AH-64 Apache Attack Helicopter SHOTDOWN saturday!

[patrice]

2. Why is a desire for Peace considered disrespectful of War Dead?

The Dead Want Nothing. What do people assume the Dead think or feel about anything as petty as what "we" say.

Is it Respectful to Ignore how MANY are dying?

The dead are heavy on a people's consciousness.

How can anyone ignore this?

This Terrible Truth . . .

[Carla in Ca]

3. And why did it take so long?

So many of us knew it wrong from the start, but look how long it has taken for others to finally wake up. We have had to suffer five of the most horrible years we have ever known, yet he is cheered at a baseball game today. I don't get it. My heart aches.

[patrice]

4. People don't stop to realize this about Bush's understanding . . .

There never have been any consequences, how could consequences be a part of their war strategy.

To some americans, ignoring the facts is strength and that makes "faith" and "values" or dreams real or true and that is all there is to it. Everything is over-simplified, polarized around their paradigm, not for its functionality (i.e. how effectively is makes things "real"), but due to certain acretians of social power.

I'm afraid it is a very regressive mind-set. Many of us have forgotten what we really want.

But it isn't the only out there. I know many people who are waking up and changing.

[madokie]

6. Once you cross that threshold nothing here matters anymore

I respect the living, they can still care.

[madokie]

5. I was just reading an article about the deaths in march were way down

that the Iraqi were busy killing each other and leaving our soldiers alone. Guess that didn't last too long.