Five more U.S. soldiers
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R.I.P.
May 4th, 2007 at 4:57 pmOnce more:
May 4th, 2007 at 4:59 pm
More blood on the hands of the King, may he rot in hell.
My condolences to the families.
May 4th, 2007 at 5:01 pm5 more soldiers, plus the countless thousands and thousands and thousands of innocents who have been driven from their homes, maimed and murdered by this illegal, immoral, unconstitutional and ruinous war.
The politicians like to reduce these casualties on both sides to “unfortunate” losses. they reduce them to something less than human – “collateral damage”
A good read on this awful issue is:
“Collateral Damage is Murder”
May 4th, 2007 at 5:03 pmhttp://www.populistamerica.com/collateral_damage_is_murder
When will people rise up and and put the Emperor’s head on a spike for all the world to see and witness what should happen to truly evil men?
May 4th, 2007 at 5:04 pmHow many more until the surge is over?
May 4th, 2007 at 5:05 pmMay their families find peace and may the Bushites rot in the worst hell their imaginations can conjure~!
May 4th, 2007 at 5:10 pmRUC:
My sentiments exactly.
May 4th, 2007 at 5:13 pmAll deaths in Iraq are murder and on the hands and watch of the failed commander in chief of the once respected USA. Can we impeach him, can we try him for war crimes, can he be hung by his neck until dead like Saddam?
May 4th, 2007 at 5:27 pmAnd yet there are people who regularly post on this site who say that the deaths of these brave U.S. soldiers at the hands of these savage terrorists who plant these IEDs are “justified.” Sick.
May those who planted those IEDs rot in hell.
May 4th, 2007 at 5:31 pmAnd yet there are people who regularly post on this site who say that the deaths of these brave U.S. soldiers at the hands of these savage terrorists who plant these IEDs are “justified.â€
That was me. And I stand by my words. Thats how you say things, Ex. Straight.
May 4th, 2007 at 5:42 pmI agree RUCerious and Lady Z, it is a constant sadness and daily grief for us all….Blessings to their famelies and all who suffer bercause of the monster’s in our administration…
Called the # BnG and a lady said they are not taking any poll’s..Iasked her to give Conyer’s my message of support to Impeach bush and cheney any way please and she said she would…Gave my name and state as well..
May 4th, 2007 at 5:43 pmRon Paul slams the Bush administration’s “demented philosophy of conquest”
Check this republican slagging Bush right Off
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f75_1178279531
May 4th, 2007 at 5:46 pmThe thing is, Im not happy by any death, and Im the atheist here… ;)
May 4th, 2007 at 5:46 pm#11 Juan,
You and I have a fairly civil relationship. Thus, I withheld your name because I didn’t want to embarass you. Your posting saying that the deaths of these five and more than 3,000 other U.S. soldiers are “justified” is reprehensible.
May 4th, 2007 at 5:48 pmI don’t really give a fig personally about US soldiers who die. Those US soldiers voluntarily chose the profession of hired killers. They kill for thrills and money, not because they are defending their country. I care about civilians, especially children, of any nationality or religion.
http://mindprod.com/politics/iraqwarpix.html#IRAQWARPIX
May 4th, 2007 at 5:50 pmIf bush had not started this war, the people that planted the bomb’s would not of put them there and our troop’s would not be over there occupieing and getting blown up…Because of this administrations action’s 3,360 of our own have died and 650,000 Iraq men women and children have died. over 25.000 of ours wounded and no one know’s how many of their’s are wounded….Entire town’s, famalies and tribes of people are gone..How can any sane person condone this madness…Only troll’s with black heart’s and no souls like bush/cheney and rove…..That’s you, as of now Exley..Be gone.
May 4th, 2007 at 5:52 pmdear god or godess or whoever, why is this happening. We have a criminal in office, hell bent upon declaring himself a untiary executive with the powers of a dictator, AND WE CANNOT GET RID OF HIM????
The system is broken. The neocons have seen to it that they have inflitrated and abused all laws and all constitutional decrees
AND WE CANNOT GET RID OF HIM?
We must suffer with a less than intelligent man, who has thought himself one of the elite, for six years–and who has been DIRECTLY responsible for the deaths of our own, plus hundreds of thousands of Iraqi people who never threatened us. He lied to us–all of us, including his own base
AND WE CANNOT GET RID OF HIM?
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
May 4th, 2007 at 5:58 pmThus, I withheld your name because I didn’t want to embarass you. Your posting saying that the deaths of these five and more than 3,000 other U.S. soldiers are “justified†is reprehensible.
Comment by Exley
I dont think so. You said that in order to be inflaming, you meant scorn against me (Im kind of overreacting) . And, I know that the troop issue is very sensitive around here, so I wont push the issue farther, cuz that would be a lack of respect and common sense.
May 4th, 2007 at 5:59 pm… please spend the time to look at this is an Oil law animation – press play – This will explain everything in 1 minute
http://www.handsoffiraqioil.org/
I dare you all to watch how America is ripping Iraqs oil off ….. This is a minutes animation to make things Clear for us all
May 4th, 2007 at 6:01 pmJuan C you are not alone at least 85% of the world actually aggree with you and I – killing is not fun , death is not good to for anyone
But its better an American soldier gets killed than an Iraqi child in front of their parents , after all the soldier did sign up for doing the work of the Devil
May 4th, 2007 at 6:04 pmComment by Baboo — May 4, 2007 @ 5:50 pm
I’m against this immoral war as much as anyone…but your comment is reprehensible. Shame on you.
May 4th, 2007 at 6:06 pmIgnore Baboo. He/she is a neocon troll posting hateful, despicable comments on a progressive site. Those comments will then be thrown out as “proof” of how sick the left are, and how poisened the blogosphere.
If you are serious Baboo, you are one sick puppy.
May 4th, 2007 at 6:14 pmsomebody has to die in a war ( your God you choose)
1 / An Iraqi child with their chest blown apart and their heart ticking visibly from a large worn gash in their side you see the child eyes slowly close and the visible heart stop ticking, your coveredin head to toe in your childs blood all because of a cowardly American warplane Bomb
2. An American soldier in a IED attack Instantly who signed up for the stoopid unjust war all because he needed blood money
go on everyone your god who do you choose to die today
May 4th, 2007 at 6:15 pmBaboo, I respectfully disagree with your post.
May 4th, 2007 at 6:16 pmSome, not all, but some enlist as I did out of a mistaken loyalty to country, and thinking that there is something honorable about such service.
We were quickly shown in Nam the foolhardiness of that view, but it’s a tad too late to bail at that point. When a family member is dead, they’re gone.
But its better an American soldier gets killed than an Iraqi child in front of their parents , after all the soldier did sign up for doing the work of the Devil
Comment by Baboo
There is no better when it comes to see which people die and which dont. You are sounding like Exley.
May 4th, 2007 at 6:21 pm24 / come on everyone answer the hyprothetical question,
1 or 2 come answer , your God choose today, You cant can you , go on spin the question, come on make your mind up whos going to die today 1 or 2
I CHOOSE NUMBER 2
May 4th, 2007 at 6:24 pmBaboo,
May 4th, 2007 at 6:31 pmA lot of those being recalled are over 58 years old and some of those have had heart bypass surgery. An in-law of my brother-in-law was on oxygen and had two stents in his heart was called up to serve at 59. He had signed out of the Reserves 17 years before, but was left on the roster W/O pay as his unit was under target for strength. He managed to get formally discharged based on a letter from his cardiologist.
I’m glad those soldiers died.
May 4th, 2007 at 6:35 pmIt’s for the innocent Muslims killed!
It’s Justice!
Go Islamic State of Iraq!
I choose none, Baboo..Having lost my only child, who was an adult of 21 year’s I choose none..None need die in my name and only if under personal attack would I take up my arm’s to defend myself…We had no right sending the troop’s there..They must be sent home immedietly, bush/ cheney/ rove and all the war- monger’s should be prosacuted for war crime’s…All life is precious, no matter who or where…If some life forms appear unfit because of their evil they should rot in prison….
May 4th, 2007 at 6:37 pmBaboo – here’s an ‘n’ for the end of your name.
May 4th, 2007 at 7:22 pmIt is long past the point that this occupation should come to an end. Please sign this petition calling on the U.S. Senate to filibuster and end the war in Iraq.
May 4th, 2007 at 9:09 pmhttp://filibusterforpeace.org/_wsn/page2.html
To Tony Snow and the Admin they are just a number. I would like to ask Tony when he unfortunately dies from cancer if he would be all right being referred to as just another number of cancer victims.
May 4th, 2007 at 9:10 pmYou don’t impress me, Marco. I know you’ll just quote this, your own idiotic words,
and later say this is proof of how vile TP is.
I do not have to support the Troops. I’m not American. But I can say that the US has seldom had a proper code of military honour. Oh, yes, the Marines will boast Semper Fides and never leave one of their own behind. But where’s the honour offered to fellow soldiers on the other side?
The Geneva Conventions arose to replace the code of honour lost with the birth of mass armies under Napoleon. The brutal use of machine guns, gas, and aerial bombardment. Before that only despotic empires or barbarians enslaved, tortured and murdered soldiers.
Not only do American troops have a notorious reputation for ‘friendly fire’ incidents. They are also infamous for shooting first and finding out what they shot at later. That’s why so many civilian men, women, and children are killed by Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan. And the joke among NATO members is that the Yanks have the best equipment and the worst trained soldiers while [insert name of Nato member] has the worst equipment but the best trained soldiers.
Consider that many Americans fighting in Iraq are part-timers, reservists, and raw recruits who were rushed through basic training and tossed onto the streets of Baghdad because Bush needed a ’surge’. This isn’t a Hollywood movie: the enemy doesn’t speak English with an accent, the Iraqis are not villains when they hate the Americans nor are they angels if they claim to want to become Americans.
War is serious business. It’s deadly serious. And soldiering is a profession; it’s not something you pick up in two weeks and then learn as you go. And an occupation is the worst kind of military action because an American soldier is damned if he does and damned if he doesn’t. The enemy planting an IED by the roadside may be an al-Qaeda agent, or an Iraqi patriot, or a Saddam loyalist, or even a poor relative who lost family during the invasion and is seeking revenge. It makes Iraq a lose-lose proposition.
May 4th, 2007 at 9:30 pmExley says: And yet there are people who regularly post on this site who say that the deaths of these brave U.S. soldiers at the hands of these savage terrorists who plant these IEDs are “justified.†Sick.
You really have a narrow mind, Exley. Are you able to think outside of your little black and white world? I mourn every American soldier killed in Iraq. However, if the Iraqis were occupying the US you would be saying every Iraqi soldier’s death was “justified”. And damned if you wouldn’t be right.
May 4th, 2007 at 10:34 pmre: Five more U.S. soldierskilled in Iraq. May 4, 2007 4:55 pm
you mean, five more counts of capital treason against bushco, get your terminology straight
May 5th, 2007 at 8:06 amThe study also found that long and repeated deployments were increasing troop mental health problems. And it showed that more than 40 percent of Marines and soldiers said torture should be allowed to save the lives of troops.
THEN ITS OK TO CUT THESE BASTARD MARINES HEADS OFF AND TORTURE THEM ALSO
May 5th, 2007 at 11:42 amGreat News. The more dead american soldiers the better, Then these killing fields can stop, The american army is the biggest bunch of racist untrained misfits that ever there was
May 5th, 2007 at 12:28 pm