Nine Troops killed in Iraq, its going to get a lot worst before it gets any better,

[madokie]

Baghdad rocked with loud explosions

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/IRAQ?SITE=OKTUL&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

BAGHDAD (AP) -- U.S. forces fired an artillery barrage in southern Baghdad Sunday morning, rocking the capital with loud explosions, while the death toll from a suicide car bomb attack in the Shiite holy city of Karbala rose to 68.

The blasts in Baghdad came a day after the U.S. military announced the deaths of nine American troops, including four killed in separate roadside bombings south of Baghdad and five in fighting in Anbar province, a Sunni insurgent stronghold west of the capital.

The size and the pattern of the explosions, which began after 9 a.m. and lasted for at least 15 minutes, suggested they were directed at Sunni militant neighborhoods along the city's southern rim. Such blasts have been heard in the evenings but are rare at that time of day.

In a brief statement to The Associated Press, the U.S. military said it fired the artillery from a forward operating base near Iraq's Rasheed military base southeast of Baghdad, but provided no other details.

[Hubert Flottz]

1. And who will ever know or believe how or why they died after the

Tillman case? The military is like Karl and Bush...they lie about everything too.

You can't trust our government since Bush came to town.

[madokie]

2. the thing that pisses me off to no end about all this is, We don't have a say in any of this

a small group of neoCON's, the WHIG makes all the decision with no input from our elected officials. If I was an elected official I would be hopping mad about now, being marginalized so.

[Hubert Flottz]

3. Patriots are few and far between in Washington.

Our leaders are in it for the money and the fame. The country means little to them. The founders would be in shock I'm afraid. They'd have to CARE, to be mad about it!

[madokie]

4. Very few indeed, as this war so aptly points out