CENTCOM: Task Force Baghdad Soldier Killed (2159)

[sabra]

http://www.centcom.mil/CENTCOMNews/Casualty_Report.asp?CasualtyReport=20051227.txt

TASK FORCE BAGHDAD SOLDIER KILLED

BAGHDAD, Iraq — A Task Force Baghdad Soldier was killed by an improvised explosive device while on patrol in Baghdad Dec. 22.

The name of the Soldier is being withheld pending notification of next of kin.

The incident is under investigation.

[NanceGreggs]

1. The War in Iraq ...

... it's the gift that just keeps taking.

Imagine what kind of Christmas it will be for the family and friends of this soldier? They'll be in mourning while Bush, Cheney and the boys are yukkin' it up ...

[alcibiades_mystery]

2. Welcome to the Desert of the Real

....

[pfcpittman]

3. Yuck

Man it is only a few more mounths till I am going to have to go over there.

[alcibiades_mystery]

5. Keep your head down, brother

n/t

[pfcpittman]

6. thanks

[saigon68]

4. "BRING EM ON" shouted the AWOL CHIMPANZEE

"OH MY GOD MY SON IS DEAD", cried the NEW GOLD STAR MOTHER.

"OH GOODY ---- HALLIBURTON IS UP ON THE NYSE TODAY", cried the Chicken Hawk
KILLER CHENEY

[0007]

7. Stack em high

Grass Bush

Pile the bodies high in Austerlitz and Waterloo Iraq
Shovel them under and let me work--
I am the grass; bush; I cover all.

And pile them high in Gettyburg Baghdad
And pile them high in Ypres and Vedum Mossoul and Al Fallaujah

Two years, ten years, and passengers ask the conductor:
What place is this?

I am the grass bush.
Let me work.

Carl Sandburg

[AFSCME girl]

10. So true and so sad...

great post, 0007

AFSCME girl

[0007]

13. Thank you young lady! I appreciate you're compliment but

regret having to be so crude.

[llmart]

8. "It was worth it".....

and "I'd do it again" said the yellow-bellied coward-in-chief.

"They're in their last throes."
"We're turning the corner."

[seemslikeadream]

9. HOW MANY MORE GEORGIE, HOW MANY MORE?

HOW MANY MORE GEORGIE, HOW MANY MORE?


No Man Can Find The War

Photographs of guns and flame
Scarlet skull and distant game
Bayonet and jungle grin
Nightmares dreamed by bleeding men
Lookouts tremble on the shore
But no man can find the war

Tape recorders echo scream
Orders fly like bullet stream
Drums and cannons laugh aloud
Whistles come from ashen shroud
Leaders damn the world and roar
But no man can find the war

Is the war across the sea?
Is the war behind the sky?
Have you each and all gone blind:
Is the war inside your mind?

Humans weep at human death
All the talkers lose their breath
Movies paint a chaos tale
Singers see and poets wail
All the world kows the score
But no man can find the war

--tim buckley

[leftchick]

11. 2160

Military Fatalities: By Time Period

Period US UK Other* Total Avg Days
4 723 13 18 754 2.31 326
3 579 25 27 631 2.92 216
2 718 27 58 803 1.89 424
1 140 33 0 173 4.02 43
Total 2160 98 103 2361 2.34 1009

http://icasualties.org/oif/

[jwirr]

12. A cold chill just ran down my back. I know we need to

keep the deaths in the news but this is the first time I have felt it personally. My nephew was in Iraq in the first several months. He got his hand crushed so they sent him home. Yesterday he would have landed in Baghdad again. This is terrifying to hear that another one is dead but not to know who. Not only the family of this young man/woman but also all of us who must wonder every day. BRING THEM HOME.