Roadside Bomb Kills 2 GIs in Central Iraq

[phillybri]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=1&u=/ap/20031114/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_425

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A roadside bomb left two soldiers dead, while an Apache helicopter killed seven guerrillas thought to be preparing a rocket attack on an American base, the U.S. military said Friday. Earlier, gunmen had killed a U.S. civilian contractor. The unrelenting violence has pushed Washington to look at speeding up the transfer of power to an Iraqi-led government.

[saigon68]

1. Dupe N/T

[scottcsmith]

2. It makes me sick

Every time an American (or allied) trooper gets killed, it's like a punch in the stomach for me. I feel so badly for the families of these brave young men and women who are being slaughtered in Iraq. And what about Iraqi deaths? Our "liberal" media doesn't seem to report on that part of the story.

I'd love for W. to be taken to one of the caskets being returned home to view the shattered remains within, so he can get it through his thick skull that his war is not going to accomplish anything in Iraq, other than the deaths of hundreds, and at the rate it is going, thousands of troops in Iraq.

I hope that the DOD is still giving military members life insurance coverage. During the first Gulf war I had $200,000 in life insurance coverage, provided free by the DOD.

But hey, as any conservative will tell you, more people die in car crashes on a daily basis, so what's the big deal if we lose a few soldiers every day?