WARNING: This is not a Dem bashing thread: VERY BAD day in Iraq

[ShaneGR]

Chaos is starting to take hold over there. Troops are on edge and the place is falling into a world of hurt. Nevermind all that, (insert Dem Candidate) is a terrible person because (insert whatever dirt you found on a pro-republican webstie).



http://msnbc.com/news/870749.asp?0cv=CB10

KHALDIYAH, Iraq, Sept. 18 — Guerrillas ambushed a U.S. military convoy Thursday with a remote-controlled bomb, sparking a heavy gunbattle in which a 3-year-old boy was wounded in the chest and two trucks were destroyed. Two American soldiers were wounded, the U.S. military said in Baghdad, although it was not immediately known if the casualties were from the ambush or a later attack several miles away.

IN THE NEARBY town of Fallujah, witnesses said an American patrol opened fire on a wedding, killing a 14-year-old boy, after mistaking celebratory gunfire for an attack.

Can we get our troops out of there already?

[BrotherBuzz]

1. Things aren't going swimmingly in Afghanistan either

[ShaneGR]

3. Haven't seen much lately on Afghanistan

I know there has been some action on the Afghan border.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

19. Possibly 4 troops captured by taliban

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=120404 :-(

[jimshoes]

2. If the bushies ever ever had the foresight to prepare

an exit strategy or two, NOW would be a good time to contemplate using it. As in, starting tomorrow.

edit: spelling

[ShaneGR]

4. O-H-I-O!!!!!

Greetings from Akron.

[jimshoes]

6. OHIO

Hi sgr2, Suburb of Cleveland, near the airport.

[liberalhistorian]

8. Hello fellow Buckeyes, I'm in

Painesville, twenty miles east of Cleveland! sgr2, I LOVE your I Know What You Did Last Election poster! Did you do that yourself?

[ShaneGR]

12. Thanks! But I didn't do it

Just linked to it from that website.

Good to see ya!

[molly]

11. I used to live in Akron

I understand my old watering hole - Tangiers - is being remodeled.

[ShaneGR]

13. Not sure

But that place is pretty ancient now. I'm sure it needs it. I haven't been there in a couple of years.

[zbdent]

17. Completed.

Haven't visited.

I'm a transplant from the Pittsburgh suburbs.

Worked in Brecksville in the mid 80s, thought the world ended just past the Richfield Dairy Queen, until you hit the Summit Mall.

Til I met my future wife.

[jenk]

5. they're still not coming clean about what happened there this afternoon

I still suspect we lost about 8 troops, but they're very tight lipped about this incident. Every news source outside of america is reporting 8.

[WillyT]

14. Yep, All They're Willing To confirm So Far Is 3 Troops !!!

Hell, has anybody even seen ONE casket come back to Dover AFB???

:shrug:

[nostamj]

15. that's because it would be admitting to 11 dead ? wounded

there were TWO attacks. they admit to the one where three were killed. and while they show the burning vehicles, they say NOTHING (CNN, MSNBC, CBS, ABC - that I've heard tonight) about even the WOUNDED from that attack...

even with HURRICANE FORCE distraction today, they CAN'T admit to that one. (gonna be another run of 'accidents' over the weekend)

[Carmerian]

18. When the Khaldiyah attack first popped up

...one of the photos at Yahoo was of a decapitated and charred body lying on the ground, with a U.S. soldier standing near. Now I can't find that photo. This is the attack the military is claiming had only two injuries and no deaths. Something's not right.

[Brucey]

7. This stuff is getting very tiring, giving me that old Viet Nam

hopeless angry feeling. What can we do?

[liberalhistorian]

9. Same thing that was done during Viet Nam,

(and that I wish I had been old enough to do, but I was born in '65), protest, protest, protest, in every way and form and place you can think of, keep the politician's feet to the fire, and educate as many people as you can!

[FlemingsGhost]

10. I wouldn't know. My TV is in love with Isabel.(n/t)

Dems

[Beetwasher]

16. A New Major Offensive By the Resistance Perhaps?

Just a horrible thought...