Four U.S. Soldiers Killed in Iraq Bomb (NEW)

[bluestateguy]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050430/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Four U.S. soldiers were killed and two wounded by a roadside bomb near the Syrian border, and four American soldiers were injured when their Humvee crashed during a nighttime operation west of Baghdad, the U.S. military said Saturday.

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[lebkuchen]

1. I wonder how that humvee happened to crash

bad driving or roadside bomb?

Four more that America was willing to sacrifice...and for what?

[saigon68]

2. "BRING EM ON" shouted the clueless AWOL CHIMPANZEE.

As he played with his Toys in the SandBox.

[xchrom]

3. and the beat goes on.

rushing toward 2,000 i see.

[leftchick]

4. This Happened on THURSDAY!

They don't know why the US delayed announing these deaths??

~snip~

The roadside bomb attack in northwestern Iraq on Thursday targeted a Task Force Freedom convoy in Tal Afar city, about 93 miles east of the Syrian border, the military said on Saturday.

It was not clear why the military had postponed announcing these casualties, although such delays are common and officials say they allow relatives to be notified before news of deaths from a particular unit appear in the media.

Also Saturday, the military said four U.S. soldiers in a convoy were injured when their Humvee rolled into a ditch late Friday night near Abu Ghraib prison, west of Baghdad.

.... 1583 DEAD for what? Oil they can't get at? :(

Military Fatalities: By Time Period

Period US UK Other* Total Avg Days
4 146 1 5 152 1.69 90
3 579 26 27 632 2.93 216
2 718 27 58 803 1.89 424
1 140 33 0 173 4.02 43
Total 1583 87 90 1760 2.28 773

[TomClash]

5. Remember

No one else can get at the oil either.

They want to control it not produce it. Yet.

[llmart]

6. It wasn't announced because.......

the Coward-in-Chief had a bogus social security plan to sell.

[leftchick]

7. of course, silly me

what a fuckwit he is.

[UpInArms]

12. we know why they didn't release this announcement

on time - on Thursday.

They kept this information back so that the idiotboy could say "really good progress" was being made in Iraq.

:argh:

[Rose Siding]

19. Instead of asking about it, the AP buries it near the end of the article!

:(

[leftchick]

8. Six US soldiers killed in Iraq....

BAGHDAD, April 30 (Xinhuanet) -- Six US soldiers have been killed in separate attacks in Iraq in the past two days, the US military said in a statement on Saturday.

Four US soldiers were killed and two others wounded in a roadside bomb blast in Tal Afar town on Thursday, some 400 km north of Baghdad, the statement said.

Another two US soldiers, assigned to the 155th Brigade Combat Team, II Marine Expeditionary Force, were killed in a car bomb attack near Diyara, west of Baghdad, on Friday, it said.

Elsewhere, four US soldiers in a convoy were wounded when their Humvee rolled into a ditch late Friday night near Abu Ghraibprison, just west of Baghdad, according to the US military.

Over 1,585 US servicemen have been killed in Iraq since the US invasion of the oil-rich country in March 2003.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-04/30/content_2899415.htm

[hadrons]

9. Chris Matthews said the insurgents were fading ...

and he wouldn't lie

[0007]

10. Never ever known Chris Matthews to bring the wrong analysis

to his viewers.

[unhappycamper]

11. Our god is stronger than their god. We must be winning. . . .

This is so sad. I thought we learned a lesson in Viet Nam about telling the truth.

Perhaps that's the reason we don't teach our children about that war.

[democrank]

13. Are you sure this story is true?

Our president told us we`re makin` progress in Iraq. Spreadin` freedom. I`m sure if things were this bad over there, President Bush would get back in his Vietnam War fighter jet and straighten things out.

[Botany]

14. And yet the lies continue ......

....... a U.S. General said, "That this proves the rebels are getting weaker
and more desperate."

Thoughts and prayers to their spirits, family, and friends.

* & company better pray that their is no judgmental God.

:cry:

[UpInArms]

15. RIP soldiers

hidden from view for a more convenient moment.

Your deaths were concealed from the public for just a few days so that our feckless leader could grin and laugh and talk about "really good progress" and no one would question why FOUR more soldiers had lost their lives in his illegal occupation of another country.

Your coffins may be photographed on their return, but those pictures will not be released for another year or so because to see the daily return of the dead might cause the idiotson's poll numbers to drop even more rapidly.

I weep for all of the families that have spent their coins in blood to support the lies of their leader.

I weep for all of the families that have been torn asunder fighting to get the truth, fighting to hold onto their lives while their blood stains the ground.

[Massachusetts]

20. RIP indeed

Americans like to talk about (or be told about) democracy but, when put to the test, usually find it to be an "inconvenience." We have opted instead for an authoritarian system disguised as a democracy. We pay through the nose for an enormous joke-of-a-government, let it push us around, and then wonder how all those assholes got in there.
— Frank Zappa (1940-1993)

[LizW]

16. ICC site shows 8 U.S. soldiers dead in the last 2 days

No names listed at the site yet.

http://icasualties.org/oif/prdDetails.aspx?hndRef=4-2005

[NNN0LHI]

17. They keep signing up and Boosh will keep sending them to their deaths

That is a gimme.

Don

[bemildred]

18. Buy more cardboard cutouts. The big fool says to push on. nt

[leftchick]

21. US Statement about The Violence on Friday...

~snip~
Despite Friday's bloody toll, the U.S. military maintained that attacks are diminishing overall in Iraq.

:banghead:

[LeahD]

22. But this war was supposed to be measured in days and weeks

not months or years, and with little loss of life, because of our sophisticated weaponry. This administration is evil.

[dhinojosa]

23. Two more days till the second anniversary of "Mission Accomplished" .

Goddamn I hate what Bush has done to our troops.