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Blasts rocked five churches in four Baghdad neighborhoods early today in a spurt of violence at the start of the holy Muslim month of Ramadan. Elsewhere an Iraqi government official was assassinated, a U.S. soldier was killed, a hospital worker died in a mortar blast and a police officer was killed in a grenade attack.

That's the sumamry for hte whole story found here.

The whole story is here:
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/...6/iraq.main/index.html
 

Tripleshot

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I could almost swear I saw Bush on an aircraft carrier declare "mission accomplished". If so, why are we still there inciting this kind of reaction?
 

gizbug

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Get your facts straight before you post on here.....and facts aren't what you hear on CBS nightly news. :disgust:
 

Engineer

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Originally posted by: gizbug
Get your facts straight before you post on here.....and facts aren't what you hear on CBS nightly news. :disgust:

huh?

5 troops died today. Nearly 1,100 have died so far. What's not factual about that?

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Darkhawk28

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Originally posted by: Engineer
Originally posted by: gizbug
Get your facts straight before you post on here.....and facts aren't what you hear on CBS nightly news. :disgust:

huh?

5 troops died today. Nearly 1,100 have died so far. What's not factual about that?

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Didn't you get the memo? Only Fox News is accurate. :roll:
 

Concordia

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<sarcasm>
Just as it is Bush's fault the troops have died in Iraq. We should blame Bush for all the deaths that have happened on American soil when people drive to work and die on the way to work. How dare Bush make our economy so bad that we have to go to work. I mean there must be 1000's upon 1000's of deaths during Bush's time in office because people have to go to work and died on the way there. Damn you Bush every time someone dies it's your fault.
</sarcasm>
 

Engineer

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Originally posted by: Concordia
<sarcasm>
Just as it is Bush's fault the troops have died in Iraq. We should blame Bush for all the deaths that have happened on American soil when people drive to work and die on the way to work. How dare Bush make our economy so bad that we have to go to work. I mean there must be 1000's upon 1000's of deaths during Bush's time in office because people have to go to work and died on the way there. Damn you Bush every time someone dies it's your fault.
</sarcasm>


</sarcasm>But Bush didn't order you to go to work. <sarcasm>


 

Aimster

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Nobody is dying in Iraq. It is all a conspiracy by the democracts. The United States army never loses a man. We are the best.

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daveshel

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Originally posted by: gizbug
Get your facts straight before you post on here.....and facts aren't what you hear on CBS nightly news. :disgust:

Hmm, I seem to have missed the part of this post that came from CBS.
 

Concordia

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Originally posted by: Engineer
Originally posted by: Concordia
<sarcasm>
Just as it is Bush's fault the troops have died in Iraq. We should blame Bush for all the deaths that have happened on American soil when people drive to work and die on the way to work. How dare Bush make our economy so bad that we have to go to work. I mean there must be 1000's upon 1000's of deaths during Bush's time in office because people have to go to work and died on the way there. Damn you Bush every time someone dies it's your fault.
</sarcasm>


</sarcasm>But Bush didn't order you to go to work. <sarcasm>


But its Bush's fault I'm not rich so I have to go to work how else can I support a family. I mean Bush could care less about the poor. He may not have ordered me but he sure did force me.
 

Darkhawk28

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Originally posted by: Concordia
Originally posted by: Engineer
Originally posted by: Concordia
<sarcasm>
Just as it is Bush's fault the troops have died in Iraq. We should blame Bush for all the deaths that have happened on American soil when people drive to work and die on the way to work. How dare Bush make our economy so bad that we have to go to work. I mean there must be 1000's upon 1000's of deaths during Bush's time in office because people have to go to work and died on the way there. Damn you Bush every time someone dies it's your fault.
</sarcasm>


</sarcasm>But Bush didn't order you to go to work. <sarcasm>


But its Bush's fault I'm not rich so I have to go to work how else can I support a family. I mean Bush could care less about the poor. He may not have ordered me but he sure did force me.

Ah yes, another neocon using a second account.... more than likely.

 

jpeyton

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Originally posted by: BarneyFife
70% of the troops support Bush. Let them die for oil. I don't care.

Seriously, if you're stupid enough to follow your fearless leader to your death, you deserve no better.
 

daveshel

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Originally posted by: Darkhawk28
Ah yes, another neocon using a second account.... more than likely.

That or they have a really good boot camp for noobs these days.
 

Sultan

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Originally posted by: jpeyton
Originally posted by: BarneyFife
70% of the troops support Bush. Let them die for oil. I don't care.

Seriously, if you're stupid enough to follow your fearless leader to your death, you deserve no better.

So I was talking to this BBC reporter the other day who had been to Iraq plenty times. His opinion is that most soldiers who arent "brainwashed" (his own words) otherwise, believe they are part of a colonial occupation.

He also believes that the US will have to leave Iraq as a military retreat, because the Iraqis are fierce nationalists and would not tolerate US occupation. Therefore this insurgency which he says is just in the "2nd gear".

I agreed with his viewpoints, especially since he said that before the invasion, Saddam had been the problem. After his removal, there is STILL a massive insurgency, and people like Al-Sadr, or Zarqawi, who were nobodies suddenly emerge to take the place of Saddam as the problem to a free Iraq.

Form what opinion you wish from the above :)
 

Red Dawn

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Originally posted by: Sultan
Originally posted by: jpeyton
Originally posted by: BarneyFife
70% of the troops support Bush. Let them die for oil. I don't care.

Seriously, if you're stupid enough to follow your fearless leader to your death, you deserve no better.

So I was talking to this BBC reporter the other day who had been to Iraq plenty times. His opinion is that most soldiers who arent "brainwashed" (his own words) otherwise, believe they are part of a colonial occupation.

He also believes that the US will have to leave Iraq as a military retreat, because the Iraqis are fierce nationalists and would not tolerate US occupation. Therefore this insurgency which he says is just in the "2nd gear".

I agreed with his viewpoints, especially since he said that before the invasion, Saddam had been the problem. After his removal, there is STILL a massive insurgency, and people like Al-Sadr, or Zarqawi, who were nobodies suddenly emerge to take the place of Saddam as the problem to a free Iraq.

Form what opinion you wish from the above :)
Yeah we should let them have at each other and then come back when they are done butchering each other, which they seem to be good at, and regain control!
 

BBond

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Now, if they 'had at' each other and a clear Iraqi government was formed from the civil war that George Bush and his neocon madmen fomented, why would we go back and take control of a sovereign nation???

Aren't we trying that now with disastrous effect???

What makes you people think we can just march into a nation and take over without a just reason?
 

kage69

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Seriously, if you're stupid enough to follow your fearless leader to your death, you deserve no better.

That's pretty harsh, and even though I kinda agree it should be mentioned that letting them do that also drags the rest of us along for the ride. Adventures like this should require near-absolute approval for this reason. It seems terrorists don't really give a damn about political divisions amongst Americans, they just see American targets.
 

imported_Aelius

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Originally posted by: kage69
Seriously, if you're stupid enough to follow your fearless leader to your death, you deserve no better.

That's pretty harsh, and even though I kinda agree it should be mentioned that letting them do that also drags the rest of us along for the ride. Adventures like this should require near-absolute approval for this reason. It seems terrorists don't really give a damn about political divisions amongst Americans, they just see American targets.

I have to agree with this view.

I also want to add that, as an ex-soldier, I know for a fact that these young kids are fully brainwashed. This would obviouslly have an effect on how they preceive their C&amp;C.

The ones who are least likely to be like that are mostly reservists who don't go through the constant brainwashing that regular forces do.

Now I'm not saying that brainwashing these young kids is bad. There's a method to that madness. It saves their lives because it allows them to be more detatched and be able to act under increadible stress but all I'm saying is that it will effect how they see authority. Especially authority at the very top.
 

kage69

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I have 3 buddies currently in Iraq, and all of them are professional, intelligent guys who - while resenting being in Iraq rather than Afghanistan - are doing their jobs and keeping more or less quiet about it. One informs me that several other Marines in his unit 'act like brownshirts sometimes' (his words). I'm really kinda proud of him - he's half Iranian and has said before 'if Bush had to pick anyplace, Iran should have been it.' :)


What branch were you in Aelius? Just curious...