Mayhem in Iraq Today. FOUR GIs Dead... *graphic*

[leftchick]

Time to catch up on those attacks that have "dropped sharply" since the election.
I know your TV won't be telling you this so I will.....

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050405/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq&cid=540&ncid=1480

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Four U.S. troops were killed in clashes and bombings across Iraq, the U.S. military said Tuesday, and videos posted on the Internet showed militants purportedly beheading an Iraqi soldier and killing a reported informer.

A joint U.S.-Iraqi attack on dozens of insurgents in eastern Diyala province on Monday left two American soldiers and one Iraqi soldier dead, U.S. military spokesman said. Two U.S. soldiers were also wounded in the attack, which continued into Tuesday.


In Baghdad's southern Dora neighborhood, an abandoned taxi exploded on an expressway near a U.S. patrol on Tuesday, killing another U.S. soldier and wounding four others, said Sgt. 1st Class David Abrams, a spokesman for Task Force Baghdad.


Another explosion targeted a joint Iraqi-U.S. convoy in Baghdad's Amiriyah neighborhood, said al-Amil police captain Talib Thamir. Abrams said a blast occurred but he did not have any details.


A U.S. Marine was also killed Monday by an explosion in the sprawling, western province of Anbar.



This undated photo provided by the Kentucky National Guard shows Sgt. James Alexander Sherrill, 27, of Ekron, Ky. Sherrill, a member of the Army National Guard's 2113th Transportation Company based in Paducah, Ky., was killed in Bayji, Iraq, Sunday, April 3, 2005, when a homemade bomb exploded near his military vehicle. (AP Photo/Kentucky National Guard)










Smoke rises beside an armored U.S. Army vehicle after it was struck by an insurgent rocket or rocket-propelled grenade when the troops responded to the scene of a car bomb in the Amiriyah section of Baghdad, Iraq Tuesday, April 5, 2005. The car bomb targeted a joint Iraqi-U.S. convoy, police said. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)




U.S. Army soldiers arrive at the scene of a car bombing shortly before they came under insurgent attack in the Amiriyah section of Baghdad, Iraq Tuesday, April 5, 2005. The car bomb targeted a joint Iraqi-U.S. convoy, police said.(AP Photo/Karim Kadim)




.....more at Yahoo Iraq Photo link....http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?g=events/iraq/082701iraqplane&a=&tmpl=sl&ns=&l=&e=31&a=&t=&prev=30

[BlueEyedSon]

1. I dunno how much more of this "freedom on the march" I can take....

:cry:

[Guckert]

2. Let Freedom "Reign". and don't forget Liberty.

[Just Me]

3. *sigh* and the war-profitteering neoCONs want more wars.

They will spend more human blood to funnel wealth into the hands of a few,...lots more.

[maxsolomon]

4. what was "graphic"?

the blood?

america needs to see GI guts & limbs blown all over some open-sewer street in ramadi to understand that THERE IS NO POINT TO THIS.

[leftchick]

7. I agree but.....

DU rules require that I put a warning in the header. So I did like a good DUer. :)

Could not agree more that this is what ameriKa needs to see to stop the insanity. I won't hold my breath.
:(

[seemslikeadream]

5. Please don't distract me leftchick

I'm desperately trying to find out what Laura's wearing to the funeral
:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm:

[leftchick]

8. omg....

thanks.... :puke:

[Vinca]

6. It's been bothering me that the entire world has focused on 2 lives

over the past few weeks: Terri Schiavo and the Pope. What makes one life more valuable than another? Each of the people dying in Iraq is as important, but they don't even make the first page of the newspaper anymore. I'm disgusted by it all. We had no business going there in the first place and there doesn't appear to be an end in sight. Meanwhile, the President and his cronies work to keep feeding tubes in dead people.

[Just Me]

9. US gvt refuses to do Iraq civilian body count unless it serves their,...

,...political agenda.

Here's what I find REALLY weird. Terrorism is defined as violence or threat of violence against civilians for political purposes. What has the US gvt been doing for the last fifty years? What is the US gvt doing now?