Separate Attacks Kill 3 Soldiers in Iraq

[jadedcherub]

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20040711_1204.html
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The Associated Press


Three U.S. Soldiers Killed in Separate Attacks; Militants Extend Deadline for Filipino Hostage

BAGHDAD, Iraq July 11, 2004 — Insurgents ambushed two U.S. military patrols north of Baghdad on Sunday, separate attacks that killed three U.S. soldiers and an Iraqi civilian.


A roadside bomb attack on a U.S. patrol in the city of Samarra, a hotbed of violence 60 miles north of Baghdad, killed two soldiers Sunday afternoon and wounded three others, the military said.

An earlier attack on a U.S. convoy in Beiji, 90 miles south of the northern city of Mosul, began Sunday morning when a roadside bomb exploded. An enemy vehicle then raced toward the convoy, firing at the soldiers, who shot back and killed the driver, the military said.


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[NeoConsSuck]

1. But is the oil still flowing?

If so, corporate america and the chimp will sleep well tonight.

Unfortunately, three American familes won't.

[spinbaby]

2. Plus four dead in an "accident"

That's seven for today. Will the "liberal" media even bother to mention these deaths? I feel so bad for their families.

[rfkrocks]

4. Soldiers deaths don't matter anymore

if you read their names on TV rethug media companies won't play the show-these great GOP preachers of American soldiers fail to honor the dead in at least some notable fashion-its so sick that regular people reap the evil sown by Bushco-All these deaths follow the announcement buried in the media that there are actually 25,000 home grown Iraqis fighters and only 300 jihadists in Iraq (most of the jihadists are living with our "allies" Pakistan and Saudi Arabia)-that is serious trouble-will there be a helicopter taking people off the roof of the American embassy in Baghdad soon? The vietnamization of the Iraqis government forces is failing-civil war is around the bend with 135,000 us troops in front row seats-what will all the death and destruction of the past year come to? The war of choice has given us the hell of consequences

[DemoTex]

3. Bartcop says 1000 dead by election day (11/2) ...

I say at least 1100, maybe more. It is a carnage. It will get worse. Even the vapid little Bu$h admits that. He has to be scared as shit right now. Indictments loom. The World Court is pissed. His "base" is questioning his very sanity. Again I post part of William Butler Yeats' poem, The Second Coming:

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all convictions, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Did Yeats see the anti-Christ, or did Yeats see George Bu$h? Or is it the same?

[saigon68]

5. AT LEAST 1100

One day soon a real outrage will occur--

Not that I'm hoping for it---- IRAQ-NAM is an untenable, unwinable war--

Unless one kills all the ARABS like Hitler tried to "Cleanse" Europe.

[happyslug]

7. All the Iraqi have to average is 3 per day

And we would have lost 1000 men by the time of the Republican Convention.

[DemoTex]

8. You said what I was avoiding saying ...

There will be a "Beirut Barracks" or mini-"Tet/68" attack. Given the groundswell of Iraqi opposition, maybe even a full-blown Tet-68 style attack. Technological superiority has, again, bitten us in the ass. We never learn. At least the Chicken-hawks running the show never learn. But they didn't know shit to start off with. Eh?

[The_Casual_Observer]

6. They are fighting for our "freedoms"

Freedom to drive gas hog SUVs knowing that there is a secure and "unlimited" supply of ooole, secure in the knowledge that we have taken the fight to "them" instead of "here". God bless amurika.