Deadly Day in Iraq

[Aimster]

5 U.S troops killed in attack by Iraqi milita
13 killed in helicopter crash (cause unknown)
2 U.S soldiers killed in Iraq on Saturday

 

[2Xtreme21]

How many more need to die? 🙁

 

[Lemon law]

Well lets see if I can figure out how many more years it will take for the Iraq war to equal the 58,000 we lost in Vietnam---well we have already lost 3000 so only 55,000 left to go.
At a rate of 20 per day thats 7300 a year. And at that rate its going to take 7.5 more years---and GWB&co only has two years left in office.

I think I now understand why GWB&co had to come up with the new plan of surge.---so little time left---so much to do to secure the administration's place in history.
58,000+or bust.---------------SUUUUUUUUUUUUUGRE.

Yes folks, with only 715 days or so days left---he needs to get US deaths pumped up to more like 77 per day---with our help---GWB&co. just might be able to do it.

 

[DealMonkey]

Wait! There's good news from Iraq too! Waitttt for ittttt... waittttt for itttt...

 

[tomywishbone]

Twenty boys died today. Twenty brave, loyal American boys. Those boys had moms & dads & brothers & sisters, and now they have nothing. Everything they had was taken from them. But what hell, those Iraqi citizens got to dip their finger in purple ink, and bush was able to land on that carrier deck... that's a fair trade. Madness.

Sieg heil bush, seig heil.

 

[techs]

I relied to this thread because so few other people had. It seems we are forgetting the troops dying there.
RIP

 

[tomywishbone]

*Update* The op was incorrect, the real number is 25, but it doesn't matter and nobody gives a fcuk.

25 U.S. troops killed in Iraq Saturday By BUSHRA JUHI, Associated Press Writer , 28 minutes ago. Sunday Jan., 21.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - The U.S. military on Sunday reported six more American troops killed in fighting the day before, raising the toll to 25 in the deadliest day for U.S. forces in Iraq in two years.

Four U.S. soldiers and a Marine were killed Saturday during combat in Anbar, the Sunni insurgent stronghold west of Baghdad, the military said. A roadside bomb also struck a security patrol northeast of Baghdad, killing one soldier.

Saturday's carnage also included 12 soldiers killed in a Blackhawk helicopter crash northeast of Baghdad, five killed in a militant attack in the holy Shiite city of Karbala and two others slain elsewhere in roadside bombings.

The parliamentary bloc loyal to the radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, meanwhile, ended its nearly two-month political boycott after reaching a compromise in which a parliamentary committee would take up the group's demands for a timetable for Iraqi forces to take over security and the withdrawal of U.S. forces.

"We announce our return to parliament, we will attend today's session, and the ministers will resume their work to serve the people," Bahaa al-Araji, one of 30 lawmakers loyal to al-Sadr, said during a news conference attended by Sunni parliament speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani. Al-Sadr also has six loyalist ministers in the 38-member Cabinet.

The decision appeared to be a way for both sides to save face while allowing al-Sadr's bloc, whose support is crucial to Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, to regain legislative influence ahead of a planned U.S.-Iraqi security crackdown in Baghdad.

"We are on the verge of a new era. We will be victorious and we will achieve the major change through unity and fraternity and be our army's regain of its strength, taking responsibility and fighting terrorism," al-Maliki said separately during a ceremony for military academy students.

The first reinforcements of U.S. troops have already started to flow into the region. A brigade of the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division, part of the buildup, has arrived in Baghdad and its 3,200 soldiers will be ready to join the fresh drive to quell sectarian violence in the capital by the first of the month, the American military said Sunday.

 

[Tom]

this is why Charlie Rangel is right, if this war is worth dying for, there ought to be a draft. And a tax hike to pay for it.

Then see how many people forget about it.

 

[shira]

Originally posted by: Tom
this is why Charlie Rangel is right, if this war is worth dying for, there ought to be a draft. And a tax hike to pay for it.

Then see how many people forget about it.

And the maximium draft age should raised to 45, men and women both. Then I'd like to see how many of those 30% currently favoring the war continue to support it.

 

[tomywishbone]

Oh I'm sorry. Bump.

 

[imported_dna]

Originally posted by: shira
And the maximium draft age should raised to 45, men and women both. Then I'd like to see how many of those 30% currently favoring the war continue to support it.

At this point it is not a matter of favoring it or not.

 

[ayabe]

According to the CNN scroller latest reports on the blackhawk crash seem to indicate it was brought down by a shoulder fired missle.