Insurgents Kill 22 Officers Near Baghdad

[True_Blue]

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Insurgents in pickup trucks attacked a police station south of Baghdad late Sunday, prompting an hourlong gunfight that killed 22 Iraqi security forces and 14 attackers, a police official said.

The clash broke out about 10:30 p.m. in Mahawil, 50 miles south of Baghdad, police Capt. Muthana Khalid Ali told The Associated Press by telephone.

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[Why Syzygy]

1. Big ole SIGH ! ! !

What's the pay off?
Besides Chainyank and gwb and their saudi friends making a LOT of CASH?

How can real Americans endure this nightmare?

Why oh fucking why, as 'civilized' people, do we still go through this shit?

Hate to admit, I've tuned out of the 'war'.
Almost two years .. it gets worse by the day.

Anti-war protester .. VSM

[sonicx]

2. freedom is on the march!

the terrists are desparate. :eyes:

[rzemanfl]

3. Gee, do you think they got a bootleg copy of "Assault on

Precinct 13" and this is some sort of copycat thing? If the Iraqis would just listen to the first lady and not join these gangs things like this wouldn't happen.

[Laurab]

12. The first lady needs to get over there and talk to these gangs

THAT would take care of the problem.

[rzemanfl]

14. Today I read that the Iraqi officer who reported this battle

"misread the message." The whole thing never happened, oh yeah, I believe that...they were really ordering pizza and he got it wrong.

[ckramer]

4. Did these damn insurgents know there was an election held? /sc

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

5. Everything's under control... Move along.

[tabasco]

6. But the republicans dyed their fingers purple to show us ...

how swimmingly everything is going in Iraq ! They should have dipped their entire hands in BLOOD because they are responsible for this unraveling tragedy !

[googly]

7. Insurgents are mad as hell that people voted inspite of threats?

[tabasco]

8. Yeah, this type of thing never happened before those elections.

:wtf:

[diamond14]

9. WOW...the attackers are KILLING them almost 2 to 1....

on EVERY talk-show today, rummy...cheney, etc. ALL bragged about the fine abilities of the NEW Iraqi Security forces....what a GREAT job they'd done in Falluja, in the sELECTIONS, etc....great fighting forces....now losing 2 to 1.....this whole mess is SPIRALING OUT OF CONTROL....as the chimp fiddles....Iraq BURNS.....

[AlCzervik]

10. They're illing them faster then the military can train them

jeebus

[BikeWriter]

11. Yep, someone said recently there were only ~6,000 of them trained...

:(

[NIGHT TRIPPER]

13. how much does the U.S. spend each day on Iraq?

Anyone know?
is it 175 million?
Is this correct?

[ElectroPrincess]

15. Big time Cognitive Dissonance in the MSM

You tell me this tragedy when just this morning my Washington Post had on the front page "Iraqis Cite Shift in Attitudes Since Vote ... Mood Seen Moving Against Insurgency."

Well, hot damn - how can this be?!? Perhaps the Iraqi's behavior has not caught up with the attitude change?

I'll be waiting for those home grown vigilante forces to be forming any moment now. Well, unless the Washington Post and the rest of the USA MSM is trying to sell us a little PSYOPS Propaganda?

No, our government wouldn't mislead the American people ... would they?

:spank: