Another Marine killed in action west of Baghdad (#1833)

[leftchick]

:argh:

Another Marine killed in action west of Baghdad
(AP)

7 August 2005



BAGHDAD - A US Marine was killed in a suicide car bombing in a village west of Baghdad, the US military said on Sunday.


The Marine, assigned to Regimental Combat Team 8, 2nd Marine Division, was killed on Saturday in Amiriyah, a few kilometers (south) of Fallujah, the statement said. Fallujah is 65 kilometers west of Baghdad.

The Marine’s name was not released. The death brings to at least 30 the number of American service members to die in Iraq since the beginning of this month.


http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/focusoniraq/2005/August/focusoniraq_August38.xml§ion=focusoniraq

[wakeme2008]

1. The sad part is the title "Another Marine"

:cry:

[uppityperson]

2. 1832 an hour ago.

rip

[cloud75]

3. sadly he's just another marine...how much blood before people wake up n/t

[ConfuZed]

5. When they start losing hundreds per day....

[0007]

12. When there is no more blood to give and the soup lines are a mile

long, and electricity is on for about six hours a day. Then you just might get the attention of the FAUX viewers and the sleepy heads in America.

[Botany]

4. Blessings & prayers on his spirit, family, and friends.

A US Marine :patriot:

Bring 'em on shouted the chickenhawk
but when they die he does not squawk.

He needs that vacation a nice long time
to laugh w/ friends and forget about his war crimes

This war has been been in the works for over 10 years
by a group of punks who when they had the chance to serve
did not because of their fears.

Another G.I.s live is now snuffed out in some roadside ditch
..... and the person responsible is a cowardly little son of a bitch.

[EST]

17. AAAA fu***ng men!!

[TacticalPeek]

19. Double amen.

President AWOL is a cowardly little son of a bitch.


:grr:

[niallmac]

6. Another family shattered

another comrade in shock and heading for therapy at a VA near you. Another small town america wakes up to the death of a home town boy or girl. Another grave. Another empty seat on a plane or bus or theater or class room and you or I will never guess why.

[cliss]

7. At this point,

how does this mirror VietNam? I believe we started out with relatively few casualties. Slowly but surely, the deaths started to go up. VietNam had resorted to guerrilla warfare (sound like Iraq?).

We were in VietNam for 10 years. I believe we lost about 58,000 US troops. Now it took a while for Americans to get riled up. The US almost became a civil war over this. That's what it took to finally get us out of that IndoChina mess.

(by the way, RumsFailed and Cheney were lurking in the background, like the tarantulas they are). And here we are again.

I'm wondering: will the US population predictably act like the last time around? Or will the 'rage' factor be shorter this time, because of the Internet? Because that's what's going to put a stop to this.

The Generals wanted to keep going in VietNam. They would have sacrificed 580,000 US troops. They were unwilling and unable to get out.

[alcibiades_mystery]

11. This is nothing like Vietnam

Much more like the Russians in Afghanistan, but without the tremendous outside support that the Mujahadeen there received from the West.

The American military in Vietnam was consistently hitting KIA number of over 200 a month from the time of large deployment (1965), and at the height of the war (1967-1969), was hitting 400-500 dead a month. We haven't seen anything on that scale in Iraq. Moreover, the American military was not just fighting a guerilla war in Vietnam. The People's Army of Vietnam fielded regulars and engaged the Americans in conventional maneuver warfare, especially during the period of 1968-1970. The Iraqi insurgents have no regular army apparatus or logistical chain, and cannot engage the Americans with traditional tactics (granted, the PAVN had a hard time with this as well, but was able to adapt maneuvers to terrain).

Let's not forget that the Russians wiped the floor with the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan until they were able procure effective anti-aircraft technology and thereby restructure their anti-aircraft tactics (espcially against the Russian helicopter forces). One of the main reasons that Reagan supplied the Afghan mujahadeen with Stinger missiles was because the Russians had almost defeated the insurgency. It was the introduction of this technology that allowed the insurgency their to flourish. That was five years into the occupation. We are two and a half years in to the Iraq occupation. We'll see what happens.

[Kipling]

8. Can we call it a war yet?

How much can it take?

[alcibiades_mystery]

9. Please tell me that doesn't say Regimental Combat Team 8

We have a DUer whose son is in that unit. Of course, that unit is very big, but damn do I have my fingers crossed now. In any case, some mother's son...Goddamn this fucking war.

[deadparrot]

10. RIP.

...

[Olney Blue]

13. How many more will die?

:cry:

[leftchick]

14. one more is too many

but I fear it will be thousands more.

:(

[Barkley]

21. A: 'the answer my friend is blow'n in the wind, the answer is blow'n in

the wind."

Bush is under pressure to either increase the troops size (which would make Hillary and Kerry look correct and Rummy wrong) or completely withrawl which would make him look very weak to his right wing idiots.

Keeping the the status quo is becoming less and less acceptable.

[NebraskaDem]

15. One more is too many

:shrug:

[chiffon]

16. Sooo sad. Just sad.

RIP

[Guaranteed]

18. So, who was the "hero" that carried out that suicide bombing? nt

[High Plains]

22. Nice try, but I think they locked that thread for a reason...

[Guaranteed]

23. The post was made well before the thread was locked. nt

[deutsey]

20. Yep...the insurgency sure is losing steam, ain't it?

:evilfrown:

[Spock_is_Skeptical]

24. bring them home now! damn

[Rose Siding]

25. 21 years old from Lexington, KY

This could be the one...

snip>
LEXINGTON, Ky. -- A 21-year-old Marine from Lexington was killed in Iraq over the weekend, the man's former headmaster said.

Chase Comley's truck or tank apparently encountered some type of bomb, said Clayton Chambliss, headmaster of Sayre School, where Comley graduated from high school in 2002.

Chambliss, who has known Comley since he was in first grade, said he was told of the Marine's death in a call from the man's aunt. She told him that the Marines notified the family on Saturday night.

http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050808/NEWS0104/508080395/1008/NEWS01

[rainbow4321]

26. Another sad story: Stryker Brigade GI killed a day after 19th birthday

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/235683_stryker08.html

A Pennsylvanian serving with Fort Lewis' Stryker Brigade in Iraq is among the latest casualties of war, killed Thursday in Iraq by a sniper -- a day after he turned 19.

Pfc. Nils G. Thompson of Confluence, Pa., died while patrolling at an Iraqi police station in Mosul. He served with the 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, the Stryker Brigade from Fort Lewis. Thompson was deployed five months ago.

<snip>

Thompson's family told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that he adapted easily to farm life, helping his father post fences and tending to cattle and sheep. Thompson graduated from Turkeyfoot High School in June 2004. He joined the Army that August as soon as he turned 18.

His family by then, however, did not share his enthusiasm for military life. "The war was on, and we were afraid," Frances Thompson told the newspaper. "But we all stood behind him and supported him."