Three U.S. Soldiers Die in Clash with Sadr Militia

[PfcHammer]

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Three U.S. Soldiers Die in Clash with Sadr Militia

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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Three U.S. soldiers were killed in the Iraqi town of Diwaniya during clashes with the militia loyal to wanted Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, the U.S. military said in a statement Wednesday.

It said the U.S. troops were attacking two buildings in the town south of Baghdad used by Sadr's Mehdi Army to assault U.S. forces Tuesday when the soldiers were killed.

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[Flagg]

1. Bring 'em on, cried the AWOL chimp

[ugarte]

2. Mission accomplished

eom

[markses]

3. What does infantry do?

Closes with and kills the enemy!
Closes with and kills the enemy!
Closes with and kills the enemy!

[SpiralHawk]

4. ChimPEE will not take this provocation lightly

He will Smite the Infidels a mighty blow in retaliation. Not him, actually, he would never get his shoes dirty in a fight. But he will be only too happy to order our young men and women Onward as Christian Soldiers to flay the Evil Doers with Passion.

God save us all.

[markses]

5. That's four for today

Here's your fourth:

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L05467275.htm

BAGHDAD, May 5 (Reuters) - A U.S. soldier died south of Baghdad on Wednesday after his Humvee was rammed by a dump truck at the checkpoint he was manning, the U.S. military said.

It said in a statement the soldier of the 1st Armored Division died of injuries in what it described as an attack by the dump truck as it tried to burst through the checkpoint.

[David__77]

6. Sadr is laying low for now... I wonder what will be next.

The Sadrists are reined in as of now. But I don't think that the occupation can "govern" if he truly goes underground and into armed struggle. His death at the hands of the US would spawn certain events. Someone yesterday said that it's just like Vietnam. I don't think so. Perhaps like Vietnam but well before '68 or so. But the groundwork for nationalist insurgency is being well-laid by the bumbling governor general and his puppets.

[Just Me]

7. I wonder: Do we ONLY get reports when soldiers are killed?

I mean, is that like a Pentagon rule that only those attacks which actually involve a death can be issued and all other attacks which involve injury are to be shuffled away from the public?

[catmandu57]

8. I'm having a hard time wrapping my mind around the number

I think this makes 764? american dead overall, but I keep seeing 470 when I read the numbers.
Selective dylexia, that and there hasn't been a larger outcry about this, about why we're there in the first place, about all the wounded, about the rape of a sovereign country, about the way our standing in the world has plummeted.
On top of everything else the fool* wants another 25 billion, needs more but he'll take what is in petty cash.

[Just Me]

10. Well, apparently, the DoD manipulates even the number of dead,...

,...because multiple sources seem to indicate that it has a policy of excluding those who die on their way to a hospital.

Why is that legal? I mean, how can manipulating numbers like that be legal? That just seems so wrong.

[jeanmarc]

9. I thought the Iraqis would deal with Sadr?[nt]

[AlCzervik]

11. thats 24 then

in 5 days. It's f*cking sickening. How many of these soldiers signed on because it would be the only way they could go to college and maybe break the cycle of poverty?

[markses]

12. I still have only 23. Could you document?

1-May: 4
1 - 1 Task Force Olympia, killed in IED attack, Qarrayah;
1 Task Force Olympia, killed in IED attack, Balad;
2 - unit unnamed, killed in IED attack, Amarah

2-May: 9
2 - unit unnamed, killed in IED attack, northwest Baghdad;
1 - unit unnamed, killed in bomb attack near Kirkuk;
6 - 5 Navy Seabees and 1 US Army soldier attached to I MEF, killed in mortar attack, Camp Ramadi

3-May: 6
1 - 1AD, killed by small-arms fire, south of Baghdad;
1 - I MEF killed in action, al-Anbar province;
4 - 1ID killed in vehicle accident, Baghdad

4-May: 0

5-May: 4
3 - unit unnamed, killed in action Diwaniyah;
1 - 1AD killed when Humvee slammed by truck at checkpoint south of Baghdad

[AlCzervik]

13. i think your right

it's 23.