Insurgents launch more deadly attacks in Iraq (US Soldier Dead #1573)

[leftchick]

http://www.katu.com/news/story.asp?ID=76723

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi politicians, pressured by the United States, tried again Monday to end a nearly three-month deadlock over forming a new transitional government, with insurgents emboldened by the impasse launching well-coordinated weekend attacks that killed 29.

Three roadside bombs aimed at U.S. military convoys exploded in the capital Monday, including one in western Baghdad that killed an American soldier, said Army Lt. Col. Clifford Kent.

Another roadside bomb hit a convoy in eastern Baghdad on Sunday, killing one American soldier and wounding two, the U.S. military said. Iraqi police said two civilians also were wounded.

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Militants also launched two separate attacks Monday aimed at Iraq's oil industry in the north, setting fire to pumps near Kirkuk and opening fire on police guarding a convoy of tanker trucks, officials said. Two policemen were wounded and three insurgents arrested in a one-hour gunbattle over the convoy, police said.

[KoKo]

1. Thanks for the post...so many don't seem to care anymore...it's good

to see posts about the numbers even though they are probably higher than what the "Military Statisticians" report.

Most Americans could care less...it's "somewhere over there."

[leftchick]

3. US Soldiers' deaths don't even make headlines

they get buried in articles like this.

Fuck bush** :(

[leetrisck]

2. Prayers for all

One just doesn't know what to say anymore and it is as if nobody is listening.

[bvar22]

4. Hey. Didn't these guys get the memo???

"Hardly a day goes by without Bush, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice or another senior administration official speaking publicly about the "march of freedom'' and the success of the Iraq invasion in securing peace.

"There's a movement toward freedom around the world,'' Bush said in an interview with a Lebanese television station this past week. "I believe that a true free society, one that self-governs, one that listens to the people, will be a peaceful society -- not an angry society.''