Just In: Attack Kills 2 Americans Near Iraq Prison

[LilBlinbBlahIce]

Attack Kills 2 Americans Near Iraq Prison

 

[Moonbeam]

This reminds me to check up on how to spell quagmire.

 

[Engineer]

3 American soldiers killed in all....13 wounded!

For what.......

The deaths brought to 165 the number of American soldiers killed in Iraq since May 1 when President Bush (news - web sites) declared major fighting was over. During the heavy fighting before then 138 soldiers died. The latest deaths brought to 303 the number of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq.

 

[Aimster]

Originally posted by: Engineer
3 American soldiers killed in all....13 wounded!

For what.......

People usually die in a war ....

 

[Engineer]

Originally posted by: Aimster

Originally posted by: Engineer
3 American soldiers killed in all....13 wounded!

For what.......

People usually die in a war ....

Yep...they do...but the question of "For what......" was implying...."Why are we even there!?!?"...

WMD maybe....
To Free the Iraq people maybe.......
To make the Middle East stable maybe.......
Because he tried to kill my daddy maybe.......

 

[Bowfinger]

Originally posted by: Aimster

Originally posted by: Engineer
3 American soldiers killed in all....13 wounded!

For what.......

People usually die in a war ....

Which is why one only goes to war as a last resort.

 

[rchiu]

Originally posted by: Engineer
3 American soldiers killed in all....13 wounded!

For what.......

The deaths brought to 165 the number of American soldiers killed in Iraq since May 1 when President Bush (news - web sites) declared major fighting was over. During the heavy fighting before then 138 soldiers died. The latest deaths brought to 303 the number of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq.

Yeap, seriously......

After 303 American and thousands of Iraqis killed, hundreds of billion spent we can't even get the reason for the war straight.

 

[Moonbeam]

More were killed later in the day.

Quagmire! Bush punched the Tar Baby and our troops have to pay with their lives. Thanks George for the brilliant well thought through plan. "It made my balls feel good" <---------------The Bush analytical process.

 

[Aimster]

Originally posted by: Engineer

Originally posted by: Aimster

Originally posted by: Engineer
3 American soldiers killed in all....13 wounded!

For what.......

People usually die in a war ....

Yep...they do...but the question of "For what......" was implying...."Why are we even there!?!?"...

WMD maybe....
To Free the Iraq people maybe.......
To make the Middle East stable maybe.......
Because he tried to kill my daddy maybe.......

That's an easy question. Bush wanted to go to war with someone and who better than a weak Iraq with 10 years of sanctions to beat up. Of course they have WMD and they were behind 9-11 .. come on! Aren't you listening to the republicans.. they've only had 4 months of searching.. I mean they found almost all of the deck of cards but HEY we need more time to find just 1 trace of WMD ..... Saddam and Bin Laddin are buddies. Bin Laddan uses Islam as his cause to try to destroy the west and Saddan .. well he never did pick on the west but he might in the future because we all know he has the means to attack the U.S. He shoots at U.S planes flying over his country 10 years later ... he must be destroyed!!!!!!!!!!!

Seriously though, Saddam was never a treat to the west. Bush went after Iraq because he knew we would lose very few men if we attacked that country and was just itching to go to war with someone. If we attacked North Korea or Iran we would of lost well over 1,000 men in the first months of fighting. All he cares about is a re-election. China will be the new world leader .. 20-30 years. We f-d up by going to the Middle East. Afghanistan was a must I agree with that, but Iraq was not called for. With jobs going to India, and billions being spent a month .. and the economy doing poorly .. good luck to all of us.


You all who were touched by the hurricane and lost your power... it sucked didn't it. The people in Iraq went months without power/water. Wonder how pissed off they are.

 

[Drift3r]

To quote our brave leader ( a.k.a Deserter in Chief ) "Bring'em on !" let's see them try that agian ! Iraq will never attack New York again.

 

[konichiwa]

I thought Bush said that autocracy breeds terrorism and freedom shuns it?

Seems to me that there are FAR more terrorists attacks in Iraq now (freedom) than there were before (autocracy)

*sigh*

 

[VioletAura]

I hope all the pro-war and "shut up and support the president" people are happy.

 

[minibush1]

Does a violent weekend make an Iraq quagmire?

Mon Sep 22, 5:51 PM ET

By Brian Williams

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - After just one weekend in Iraq, I feel more besieged in Baghdad than all of my time in Vietnam.

There is a sense of menace and insecurity in this city that I have never encountered in covering conflicts from Afghanistan in the 1980s to Kosovo in the 1990s as well as the ever present Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

In those hotspots, at war or under occupation, there was also an ever present danger. But unlike Baghdad, there was an awareness of where the danger might be, what should be avoided, where you could eat, what street you could walk down and expect to come out at the other end.

In Baghdad, foreigners, from journalists to international aid workers, eschew the local haunts and kebab restaurants that dot the main streets and neighbourhoods.

Foreigners rarely walk Baghdad's streets at all and meals are mainly takeout affairs or eaten in hotels and other places protected by security.

On my first weekend, there was an assassination attempt on a leading woman politician, two U.S. soldiers died in an attack on the main prison and on Monday I woke to a suicide bomb attack outside U.N. headquarters.

Does a violent weekend make an Iraqi quagmire? No one knows as yet and it took years for the United States to fully realise their predicament in Vietnam.

But U.S. troops, who during Vietnam ranged far and wide over Saigon, now Ho Chi Minh City, almost like tourists, are confined to heavily barricaded bases or see Baghdad from checkpoints or tensely sitting on patrol vehicles.

In Vietnam, and now in Kabul, the military presence of the United States and its allies was omnipresent.

Helicopters were always overhead. Troops were on streets, convoys on roads. There was always a buzz of military activity. There was almost a comfort in the awesome firepower on display.

In Baghdad, a helicopter overhead is unusual enough to lift heads. Apart from checkpoints, streets can go for hours without the sight of a military vehicle.

And the attacks of the past weekend seemed to indicate a new confidence among guerrillas that brings back memories of Vietnam.

"The randomness has gone," one private security adviser said. "Whoever they are, they are now attacking on their terms, on their ground and at the time and place of their choosing."

That was how Viet Cong and North Vietnamese won the Vietnam war.

Kareem Omer, 52, a mechanical engineer, who recalls news reports of the Vietnam War, fears his country may be on the way to a bloody future before it becomes its own country again.

Store owner Sami Hamza Auda, 63, shared that view and said it all came down to oil and occupation.

"The Americans are here for the oil only but we are a united people. Remember we threw out the English as well and nationalised our oil," he said.