40 US soldiers have been killed this month as the Iraq Study Group dithers

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/world/4336488.html

BAGHDAD, Iraq — Three U.S. soldiers and three U.S. Marines were killed during combat in Iraq, the military said Wednesday.

One soldier assigned to 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division, of the Army, and the three Marines assigned to Regimental Combat Team 7, died Tuesday from wounds sustained in "enemy action while operating in Anbar Province," the insurgent stronghold in western Iraq, the statement said.

At 11:30 p.m. Tuesday, two soldiers with the Army's Multinational Division died when their vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb in northwest Baghdad while conducting combat operations, the military said.

The deaths raised to 2,858 the number of American forces who have died since the U.S. invasion in March 2003. So far this month, 40 American service members have been killed or died in Iraq.

[rocktivity]

1. "The Iraq Study Group will now come to order..."

I know that law school students form study groups, but why couldn't they have called it a commission? "Study group" sounds so JUVENILE!

x(
rocknation

[TahitiNut]

2. Or they could call it what it is: ..

... "The REMF Clusterf*ck"

[Dhalgren]

4. Because this "study group" exists only to figure out a way to spin

the recommendation that everyone knows is the only one they can give: "How do you say 'Redeploy the troops' without sounding like you are quoting John Murtha" -OR- "Call John Kerry and ask him for the details of his plan that he proposed months ago." -OR- "What in Hell happened to our Armed Forces?"

[Dhalgren]

5. Actually, they are trying to figure out how to tell the Boss (Bush Sr.)

that Junior has to be put in a rubber room. Baker: "I am not going to tell him! Not THIS time!"

[shain from kane]

3. Still arguing about the shape of the table? n/t

[JudyM]

6. I just turned on c-spin and Congress is honoring the Cardinals for their WS win.

Fiddling while Rome burns...

:wtf:

:puke:

[NNN0LHI]

7. Here move those deckchairs over to this side of the Titanic for a while n/t