U.S. Says 13 Killed in Iraq Chopper Crash

[pruner]

The Associated Press

BAGHDAD, Iraq Nov. 2 — The U.S. military command said Sunday that 13 soldiers were killed and more than 20 wounded when their U.S. Chinook helicopter was shot down near Fallujah.

http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20031102_317.html

[ComerPerro]

1. Well, if two deaths in a success means the mission is a success

According to Bush, at least, then that means that this attack irrefutably proves that this mission is going just as planned and that things could not be better in Iraq. I guess that this means Iraq is the safest place in the world for American troops.

[NewJeffCT]

7. Best day ever in Iraq

I agree - we'll probably get a spokesperson saying how the resistance is more desparate than ever now.

Will Bush go to his first GI funeral?

[qanda]

2. What is this picture all about?

The caption says U.S. Army 4th Infantry Division soldiers joke around with Spc. Jeffery Barnaby, center, as they celebrate his 26th birthday at the military base in Tikrit, 193 km (120 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday Nov. 1, 2003. Spc. Moises Rodriguez is seen at right. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

However, it looks like they are making fun of captured Iraqis. That is very disturbing.

On Edit: Why is it attached to such a terrible story?

[SahaleArm]

3. I think he's the guy in the middle.

Tied up.

[E_Zapata]

4. I don't even know how to assimilate that photo

It is beyond words.

We will learn in the coming days, years and decades what we have done to these children, our soldiers.

Why is the photo attached to this story? Because, in spite of a ruckus good fight in Iraq, we are having BIRTHDAY PARTIES!!! woo hooooooooooooooo

[izzie]

5. That pic was with the 13 dead? I donot get it.

:eyes:

[Clark Can WIN]

6. I can't stop crying

and I hate him. I have never hated any other human being. But I hate him.