50 US Soldiers Killed in Last Five Days

[deacon]

In a flurry of weekend press releases, the Department of Defense named another 20 US soldiers killed in Iraq. These deaths bring the total killed since November 8th to fifty. Such facts contradict the "official numbers" released to the unquestioning media.

http://www.antiwar.com/ewens/?articleid=3977

[madrchsod]

1. that reaches the daily average

in the Vietnam War-you know the one bush hid from. but he`s the "war president" now-he has a man date.

[Liberaltarian]

12. the only man date he has is with victor ashe...

bible study every sunday, followed by some really heavy petting.

[0007]

17. Oh! You mean the man that Jerry Falwell claims that we lie about?

[Chimpanzee]

30. Jerry Fallwell is the lyingest sack of shit - may he rot in hell n/t

[ogradda]

2. just watching abc news in pierce county wa

they said we've lost 10 since we started whupping on fallujah :(

[Hard Attack]

3. Bush Just this morning said everything is going well...

Didn't his radio address make it seem 'Rosy'?

This was just this morning..............

Bush Paints Rosy Picture of Iraq Situation

WASHINGTON - President Bush painted a rosy picture of the situation in Iraq , claiming significant progress Saturday in the U.S. military's battle in an insurgent stronghold

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041113/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_4

[Divernan]

11. Bush sees "rosy" where realists see blood red.

My deepest sympathies to 50 more American families devastated by senseless loss of loved one in the interests of Big Oil/Bush's ego.

[glarius]

4. Have you noticed CNN is showing the video of the Falluja attack with

musical background playing, like it's a movie....I find this disgusting!

[kazlab67]

5. I hate hearing about every soldier death.

As a veteran myself, every time I hear of a soldiers death in Iraq a tear forms in my eye for a moment. Every damn time.

[glarius]

8. Yes, I understand, especially when you realize that they are dying for

nothing....This is George Bush's little war...There is no reason for it...My heart aches for all the young American soldiers and Iraqi innocents dying needlessly...

[getoffmytrain]

20. I disagree...

the fact is, regardless of the roots of the war, the soldiers are there fighting it... I can guarantee to you that pretty much each and every soldier there will tell you that they are fighting for the guy next to him..

Soldiers don't walk around with a great big broad view in war... their war is generally confined to their personal experience and most will tell you they were fighting to keep themselves and the men next to them alive.

[tedzbear]

27. That is why they are easily malleable by the evil politicians who...

...send them to fight illegal, immoral wars like they are fighting now.

[glarius]

28. I agree with what you say about the soldiers and why they are fighting but

I still say, it is an unnecessary war, therefore, sadly, they are dying for nothing.

[NMDemDist2]

14. welcome to DU kaz and

:hug:

[newyawker99]

26. Hi kazlab67!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Demonaut]

6. release it on the weekend ......and maybe no one will notice except for

the families of the fallen......it's too inconvenient for the public to take notice.

[Dem2theMax]

9. Exactly. Another 'Friday night dump.'

And right after Cheney's news of the day.
Oh wait. That's Cheney's 'distraction' of the day.
My bad. ;)

[saigon68]

19. Except for DU there appear to be few organized efforts

to remember the cost in human lives of this Cluster Fuck.

P.S. that includes 100,000 or so Iraqis slaughtered for oil and Cheney the draft-dodger.

[llmart]

22. As long as they're someone else's son, daughter......

father, brother, than they don't care. Very little empathy left in this country. We're all too busy being capitalists. (Except for me and some of my friends and family.)

[PurityOfEssence]

7. There are more already, and there will be yet more to come

How do I know? The same way I know that they're simultaneously claiming it's going faster and with less resistance, as they're making excuses that many of the insurgents left before the encirclement was complete. Wounded who die in Germany or en route to various places won't be tagged to this offensive offensive, and others will be sprinkled around, delayed and otherwise tucked away.

Once again, conservatives--who worship the past--have learned nothing from it.

As John Lennon put it: "shovellin' smoke with a pichfork in the wind..."

[Is It Fascism Yet]

10. Yeah, and these soldiers wouldn't die

if not for Diebold cheating.

[bin.dare]

29. i am sorry but you are unfortunately dead wrong

a Kerry victory was not going to make much of a difference to the war effort. i'm sorry.

[physioex]

13. To me this election was about...

How much the American people can stomach. Let the bodies keep coming in, we'll find out where the boiling point lies.....

[Minstrel Boy]

15. "How high's the water, mama?"

"It's five feet high and risin'."

[dbt]

16. Wonder what CASH would have had to tell us about this war?

Ah, but he had quite enough misery in his last year; prolly just as well that he's gone to Rock And Roll Heaven.

:loveya:
dbt

[Maeve]

18. (switching songs in midstream) And the Big Fool says to push on

Time to go back to an old sig-line:

Is fearr filleadh as lár an áthe ná bá sa tuile.

It is better to back out of the middle of the ford
than to be drowned in the flood.

[JusticeForAll]

23. Can someone explain "ha, ha" on 3/25/2004?

Is this the evil WMD joke that * thought was so funny to create a short film about?

[Minstrel Boy]

24. "Those weapons 'a mass destruction have gotta be some place."

Yeah, I think that's it.

What a fucking world.

[jmcgowanjm]

21. Why your kids are dying in Iraq

US has established three bases to guard the Mosul-Haifa pipeline

http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=news_members&Number=293100108

And why this won't work;

TAJI, Iraq There's word that militants have attacked an
oil pipeline just north of Baghdad.
Witnesses report flames and heavy black smoke rising high
into the sky. The pipeline carries crude oil to a refinery in the
Iraqi capital.

Five U-S helicopters have been hovering nearby. But no
Iraqi security forces or firefighters have been spotted at
the scene of the fire.

Witnesses say insurgents have virtually taken control of the
town of Taji, which is about 12 miles north of Baghdad. They
say militants have been distributing leaflets warning people
not to leave their houses or open their
shops.

Copyright 2004 Associated Press.

http://www.kfor.com/Global/story.asp?S=2561251

courtesy of:
www.whatreallyhappened.com

[pinerow]

25. Other than that...the war seems to be moving right along...

nt

[Kukesa]

31. Kick! A sad one. n/t