U.S. Announces 9 Troop Deaths in Iraq

[brettdale]

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/04/28/ap3664953.html

U.S. Announces 9 Troop Deaths in Iraq

A car bomb exploded Saturday in the Shiite holy city of Karbala as the streets were packed with people heading for evening prayers, killing at least 58 and wounding scores near some of the country's most sacred shrines. Separately, the U.S. military announced the deaths of nine American troops, including three killed Saturday in a single roadside bombing outside Baghdad.

With black smoke clogging the skies above Karbala, angry crowds hurled stones at police and later stormed the provincial governor's house, accusing authorities of failing to protect them from the unrelenting bombings usually blamed on Sunni insurgents. It was the second car bomb to strike the city's central area in two weeks.

Near the blast site, survivors frantically searched for missing relatives. Iraqi television showed one man carrying the charred body of a small girl above his head as he ran down the street, while ambulances rushed to retrieve the wounded and firefighters sprayed water at fires in the wreckage, leaving pools of bloody water.

The Americans killed in Iraq included five who died in fighting Friday in Anbar province, three killed when a roadside bomb struck their patrol southeast of Baghdad and one killed in a separate roadside bombing south of the capital.

[mudesi]

1. It seems to happen every weekend

The longer it takes to impeach this president who doesn't dare end this, the more soldiers that will die.

This is my primary reason to support impeachment.

[butterfly77]

2. Now their favorite talking points are...

the " the surge is not fully in effect" "we are waiting for more recruits to make it into theater" and their favorite that Bush loves to use in his speeches is " WAY FORWARD" He can't even get enough recruits to do a surge and when they do get there, it will only be to make him look as though he is really fighting a war when in reality it is only and occupation.

I thought that when you surge you have a large group at once. People are dying for his so called legacy when everyone will still know he isn't not worth a damn...No matter how many books his neocon buddies write to try to portray him as some great leader.