US Soldier killed in Baghdad Bomb Attack

[bluestateguy]

This looks new...

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=4YNZCVTNHRTBICRBAEZSFFA?type=topNews&storyID=3811292

Thu November 13, 2003 02:19 AM ET

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An American soldier has been killed in a roadside bomb attack in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, a spokesman for the 1st Armored Division said Thursday.
The spokesman said a roadside bomb struck a passing Humvee vehicle in Baghdad Wednesday, wounding two soldiers. One of them later died, he said.

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. One, two ten a night

One more soldier not coming home from this insanity

I now know how my husband's parent generation felt in the 1960s

Oh and it does not matter if bushco and the media try to hide them from us, we see them, and we bonor them

Oh and reading the update if anybody does the math, this is the first year of the war, in Nam it did not reach this intensity until oh, 1967-8

[theHandpuppet]

4. Too bad LIFE Magazine....

... isn't still around to give the American public a real eyeful of what bloody war truly costs. I'm old enough to remember the real-deal photojournalists whose graphic, shocking pics of the Vietnam War jarred the conscience of an entire nation.

Compare that kind of journalism with the few sanitized images proffered by the American news channels and those "everything is happy-dappy!" reports from Dr Bob (I'm waiting for Howdy to show up at any moment) and what you have is a war that's just as smartly packaged as a video wargame, though the real war in Iraq would appear to be considerably less bloody.

That's the way America seems to like its wars these days -- "tidy", to borrow a euphemism from Herr Donald, because real war is never so. The tally of body bags being flown home in those "transport tubes" is just as surreal to John Q. Public as the soaring figures of our national debt. Give us platitudes and Jessica Lynch and unlimited credit so we may carry on in our blissfully unaware mass psychosis. Hell, at some point even Dorothy knew she wasn't in Kansas anymore.

Ah well. We won't worry our beautiful minds with such untidy thoughts, as Babs Bush would no doubt recommend. After all, we've got KobeLaciRosie 24/7 on cable and as far as Iraq is concerned, let's all click our heels together three times and repeat, "There's no place like home."

[bluestateguy]

2. UPDATE

The spokesman said a roadside bomb struck a passing Humvee in Baghdad Wednesday, wounding two soldiers. One of them later died, he said.

"Yesterday we had two soldiers wounded in an IED (improvised explosive device) attack in Baghdad. One later passed away," said the spokesman.

The latest death brings to at least 156 the number of U.S. soldiers killed in action in Iraq since President Bush declared an end to major combat on May 1.

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[NickB79]

3. So, have we passed 400 yet?

I thought they were damn close to 400 soldiers dead after the last copter shoot-down.