5 U.S.-led soldiers killed, 3 others may be captured.
By on May 12th, 2007 at 9:45 am
5 U.S.-led soldiers killed, 3 others may be captured.
Five US-led troops were killed on Saturday in a pre-dawn insurgent attack south of the Iraqi capital that left three soldiers missing and feared captured, the military said. “As a result of this attack, five soldiers were killed in action and three are currently missing,” Maj. Gen. William Caldwell said, without specifying whether the dead were all US soldiers or whether the Iraqi interpreter was among those killed.
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5 U.S.-led soldiers killed…
no, 5 more counts of capital treason, get your terminology straight
May 12th, 2007 at 9:58 amObviously, only one thing to do in response: attack Iran.
Seriously, I really feel for the troops over there pissing away their lives for Cheney’s Haliburton. May he die a slow and painful death.
May 12th, 2007 at 10:02 amI’m really impressed by the military’s dedication to the mission in Iraq.
May 12th, 2007 at 10:03 amdo you think any of the three missing can take more than 2.5 minutes of waterboarding to save Iraqi lives
May 12th, 2007 at 10:07 am3393
May 12th, 2007 at 10:11 amSoldiers-resist. Say NO to the war machine by refusing to be used as cannon fodder for the Bush administration. The UCMJ states that military personnel have not only a right but a duty and an obligation to refuse illegal orders, which committing a preemptive and aggressive war against Iraq would certainly qualify as being a war crime. The true heroes are people like Lt. Watada and the members of the IVAW, who recognize that this war/occupation is being fought for absolutely no justifiable reason at all.
May 12th, 2007 at 10:12 amthe 3 missing are terrorists quite simply and should be treated as so – and should be held at Omantnaug prison and have military tribunerals like the 89 IRAIS in Cuba
May 12th, 2007 at 10:16 amWhat’s really depressing me today is the fact that we have 1.5 years left of Chimpy’s Admin (of course, if he’s impeached before that) — can you imagine how much more damage that be unleashed in this amount of time?
May 12th, 2007 at 10:18 amAnother thing I keep thinking about is how creative this admin is going to be about a Provocative Act involving Iran and when the bombing of Iran is going to begin. Also– how unprepared we are as nation for disasters (man made or not) because most of our resources are in Iraq. My mind is spinning today. Are we headed toward Martial Law?
That’s a rather disturbing comment, Mr. Tobey Tall. These soldiers should be quickly found and returned home (they must be tired, that’s for sure) and their captors executed immediately by U.S. forces. Arial warfare, that’s how it should be done.
May 12th, 2007 at 10:23 amI feel plenty of sympathy for the Iraqis, Mr. Tobey. But please, no inflammatory comments about our brave forces serving in combat. Only a small segment of the american military is evasive to proper combat procedure.
Your anger is with merit, though, sir. This is certainly not a good time for the world, and our commander-in-chief is not as flexible as he should be.
May 12th, 2007 at 10:42 amMr. Prezinit announced the surging success of Operation Drive Around and Get Shot will now expand to Operation Drive Around and Get Blown Up.
May 12th, 2007 at 10:59 amCompTROLLER V-1
they must be tired, — what about Iraqis, No water, no electric and there now being straved of food for 4 YEARS ???
captors executed are the captors BABY Killers like US troops ???
brave forces nothing brave in what there doing I call it stupidity
Ok my remarks are inflammatory but thats the way I feel – a few posts ago “14 iraqies Killed” Not one post of condolances from any poster here its as if posting condolances for Iraqis Civillians is a sign of treason or un american , inflammatory posts from the trolls as usuall
The war is getting worse , british troops are leaving America needs the troops for the South near Basra down there right now there putting up new buildings riggged with explosives , More bombs are going off in The kurds area the shit is going to start up there ,
And Georgie F()cking Bush is still saying Stay the course
IM SICK TO THE BACK TEETH OF THIS WAR . . .. My feelings are with the Iraqis and the Iraiqs ONLY – NOT Americans or the British Baby Killers either
May 12th, 2007 at 11:03 amErroll and Toby Tall,
Go F*&k yourselves.
May 12th, 2007 at 11:04 amthis war is about one thing only ” greed”
greed started the very first wars ever
the first wars were in Eygpt when civilisations learned to farm , with farming – greed was brought about , with greed came wars
before that we were all hunter gatherers
This wars about Neocon greed for Oil – unforgivable greed
May 12th, 2007 at 11:09 amSubject: Tobey Tall
Fighting a war requires flexibility, and everybody is right to call CINC Bush on being an inflammator with no care to adjust. He takes it as an insult to his manhood. Keep your voice loud. CompTROLLER V-1 had some disagreements, but in a tense situation like this, inflammatory comments due to frustration and dispair is common and forgivable.
May 12th, 2007 at 11:09 amCompTROLLER V-1
agreed – passions can run up and down somedays with this War
Its no good seeing from the Goose ALL the time without seering from the Ganda’s side time to time
May 12th, 2007 at 11:26 amA new up date on our military at home and on my flag..Upside down..Early morning knock on the door, someone wanting to fish..One new suprised visitor ask’s if my sign (vetran’s fish free off the dock) is true.? Yep! say’s I and add. Thank you for your service…The 40 something vet say’s Thank you and ask’s about my flag, do I need help.? Nope, my country doe’s. He agree’s…A half hour later he notices the back of my pick up and say’s ” who ever own’s that pick up deserves a medal for the bumper sticker’s saying impeach and more…That would be me I say and he add’s..He got out of the service of 20 year’s last week because the ” madman bush think’s more of his ego than his troop’s lives.”….I send out Blessings to all today…I grieve for all the lives lost in the bush madness.
Troll’s and reich winger’s beware, there are more people than you know who are distressed with this administration and willing to do what ever it take’s to uncover their evil as well as jail the wrong doer’s…
May 12th, 2007 at 11:35 amCompTROLLER V-1, you see unacquainted with the rules of engagement. The Iraqi resistance has every right to attack members of the occupying force. And, although Bush & Gonzoles have greenlighted the practice of torture against Iraqis, it is still against the Geneva Conventions. Still, would one be able to blame the Iraqis if they did torture the Americans? Even just to avenge their own?
This War was illegitimate from the get go. And a mandate to secure and to protect Iraq from the UN a year after the fact doesn’t make it legit. The premise for the invasion was false. And, if one cares to read the UN mandate, one can see that the US hasn’t been living up to it and is only keeping the Iraqi government from demanding a withdrawal by threats and intimidation.
Americans cannot be the servants of two masters. Either you are there to provide Freedom & Democracy or you are there to secure oil for US business interests. As it becomes increasingly clear that the reconstruction has been a farce and the bleatings of Iraq’s government are ignored by Centcom, one can see that America’s involvement is a two-faced one.
This is NOT a Just War. And nothing America’s troops do will be looked upon as good or fair or helpful. America has lost.
May 12th, 2007 at 11:40 amthe first wars were in Eygpt when civilisations learned to farm , with farming – greed was brought about , with greed came wars
8000 years later same shit different day
May 12th, 2007 at 11:43 amDoes anyone else ask, why are there only 8 guys taking on an Insurgent Stronghold. Maybe I’m misreading the article. I’m also tired of the wait till September to see if things have changed. I can’t wait to see how they fix the numbers to look positive on that one, they are already not counting suicide bombings. And even if they don’t, do you actually think the Republicans are going to vote any other way? Are they going to “defect” and cross the party line to end this. Maybe the few who are coming up for election in 08 but most won’t. And they need to stop this crap about if we leave the whole region will get into a fight, a Shia Sunni war. Iran and Syria and Jordan and Saudi Arabia have learned from the US, you just fund wars and give arms to your friends.
May 12th, 2007 at 11:51 am15 more months, can the nation take it. If things keep going that will be 1,500 more dead service men and women and probably another 10,000 with injuries.
The deaths of American troops is escalating along with the escalation. It makes sense. We have just given them more targets. I hold the enabling Republics responsible for every American death from now until when we finally get out. They are murderers one and all. And why do they sit back and watch our troops be slaughtered? Because they hope if they hang in there long enough the Iraqi’s will be stupid enough to sign a bill that gives the US and British oil companies 70% of the oil profits in Iraq for 30 years. IT IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN! So Republics, are you going to continue to murder our young men and women or are you going do the right thing and bring them home. The choice is yours. You will pay for your choice in 2008.
May 12th, 2007 at 11:53 am“Arial warfare, that’s how it should be done.”
Sure, just bomb the hell out of the country. Kill everyone in sight. If we can kill everyone in Iraq, we can then move in and take over their oil fields. The thing the Republics don’t get is every time we kill an innocent Iraqi (to the Republics, none are innocent, they are all Muslims and therefore our enemy) we create 3-4 more terrorists. People who hate us for what we have done to their country and their family. Anyone who says they feel safer now after invading Iraq seriously needs an intervention because they are certifiably insane.
May 12th, 2007 at 11:57 amEven withdrawal still means ripping Iraqi oil off point to other language that gives U.S. military authority to protect American diplomatic facilities and American citizens, even if combat operations are ended, thus potentially using U.S. troops to protect American oil workers or companies pumping Iraq’s oil, be it from foreign insurgents or angry Iraqis. The war is about oil and oil only.
Bush wants the Oil now , the Democrats want to withdraw then steal the oil on their watch
Both parties are going about this the wrong way
May 12th, 2007 at 12:04 pmComment by david
Tensions are running high, and CompTROLLER V-1’s system patch confers that. The U.S. made it clear that it would not be going after the general citizens of Iraq, or in any war for that matter. “America Wins” or “America Loses” shouldn’t be the objective. The goal is to sustain Iraq – economically, politically, and militarily. The types bombings that U.S. forces don’t approve of and are not coordinated with, are hampering that effort, including stale civilian leadership. The ability to get these unpredictable bombings and other corruption under control (including these U.S. contractors) would jumpstart the effort dramatically.
That is the systems opinion – you’re anger is completely warranted. The U.S. CANNOT have an open-ended commitment to Iraq.
May 12th, 2007 at 12:10 pmResidents are adamant: the bomb was planted “by the Americans”; one of them says, “The night before the bombing, the Americans were surrounding the bridge, and right after the bomb exploded, we heard the noise of a jet.” If this is true, it would fit a perceived – by a overwhelming majority of Sunnis and Shi’ites alike – American strategy of inciting sectarian war: Shi’ites are now forced to pass through turbulent Adhamiyah if they want to go, for instance, to al-Mustansariyah University (also recently bombed), which is considered in Baghdad as a “Shi’ite” university.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IE02Ak01.html
May 12th, 2007 at 12:24 pmHacker bob’s comment at #13 does not make for a very eloquent or persuasive argument. There is no doubt that the invasion of iraq violated the UN Charter, the Geneva Convention, and the Nuremberg Principle of an illegal and unprovoked war based upon preemption. One wonders how many more Americans must die in another needless war- perhaps 58,000?- or how many innocent Iraqis must die before warmongers like hacker bob will admit that the United States has no right occupying Iraq. I stand on what I wrote at #6. The most heroic thing that those in the military can do today is to say that they will no longer participate in the subjugation and oppression of the Iraqi people, just as those in the 2006 documentary Sir! No Sir! said that they were no longer going to assist in the subjugation of the Vietnamese people.
May 12th, 2007 at 12:36 pmSoon, there will be another obsene milestone with 4000 dead Americans. And there is nothing to indicate that anything is going to change in the near future.
God damn Bush&Co.
#26, I just saw Sir!No Sir! this week — powerful. I was young during that era, but I was aware of what was happening. The video brought it all back.
May 12th, 2007 at 12:48 pmMy heart goes out to those three troops. To see them sacrificed in this way for corporate profits rather than defense of country makes my teeth grind. Merciful treatment of our troops was never guaranteed, but as long as our nation remained a strong advocate for humane treatment of captured combatants and led the world in this respect, they had a chance. They didn’t ask for their chances to be ruined by psychopathic scumbags who never served and will never, EVER find themselves or their families in these horrible circumstances.
May 12th, 2007 at 1:05 pmMarie
I am glad that Sir! No Sir! was able to have that effect upon you. That film had a powerful impact upon me, as I was one of those people who ended up stationed in Vietnam those many years ago. I am always surprised how so few blogs which claim to be liberal have seen fit to mention this very relevant documentary on their web site.
Also, the number of Americans who have died in Iraq have already surpassed 4000 because the civilian contractors who have been killed in Iraq number close to 800.
May 12th, 2007 at 1:16 pmArial warfare, that’s how it should be done.
May 12th, 2007 at 1:55 pm——————
Comment by: CompTROLLER V-1, another “little Eichman.”
This maybe a new tactic by the Iraqi insurgents to capture US soldiers to be used as bargaining chips eventually. This tactic worked for the North Vietnamese, so Iraqis are trying it.
May 12th, 2007 at 2:07 pmI hope the insurgents follow the rules of no torture like we do……uh oh.
May 12th, 2007 at 2:31 pmThis “strategy” of placing more troops in small enclaves is going to result in more and more of these scenarios playing out.
May 12th, 2007 at 2:37 pmAnother failed mission. The path to victory is GFO.
Is it safe to stroll in Baghdad now, Senator McCain?
May 12th, 2007 at 2:51 pmDear God,
Please DESTROY all right wing fascist CONSERVATIVES…
May 12th, 2007 at 8:26 pmMessage to Iraqi captors of American soldiers:
You have been warned. I expect you to stick strictly to the Geneva conventions in your treatment of our soldiers just as do in our treatment of…. opps, oh….er… never mind….
May 13th, 2007 at 12:38 amMajority of Iraq Lawmakers Seek Timetable for U.S. Exit — By KIRK SEMPLE — “New York Times”
Message to all Americans:
Which part of fcuk off don’t you understand?
May 13th, 2007 at 12:42 amWhat punishment befits US GameBoy Warcriminals who invade and destroy nations without any justification whatsoever, organise oil-piracy for fascist world domination, threaten the world with nukes, torture children in front of parents to ‘extract’ false confessions, murder their parents, rape 12 year old girls in gangs and then set her on fire after killing her family in front of her, kill civilians for fun, bet beers if they can snipe a child from 100m, piss on dying civilians who they just shot to pieces, raze cities, deliberately bomb hospitals and schools, hunt civilians from choppers with nightvision and missiles, violate with laughter every clause of the Geneva convention, run concentration camps?
Yes, this is a knotty problem – but only if you are another sick skYanki mindfucked bastard without morals – to the rest of the world, the answer is very clear + simple – eliminate these vermin with extreme prejudice!
One sure way to slow down a rapist … is castration
GameBoyz believe war is a video-game, where every imaginable barbarity can be committed without consequences – well, they were half right – as these 3 meatballs will discover, they will be on video, but it’s no game!
… and when choking on own balls, laughter will be remote
… not pretty, but, what goes around comes around, and reality bites back with a vengeance
Unity and Victory to the heroic Iraqi Resistance !!
May 13th, 2007 at 7:23 amShame + Defeat to degenerate United skYanki Losers!
What punishment befits US GameBoy Warcriminals who invade and destroy nations without any legal justification whatsoever, who organise oil-piracy for fascist world domination, who terrorise the world with nukes, who crush children’s testicles in front of their parents to ‘extract’ false confessions, who murder civilians randomly for fun, who rape 12 year old girls in gangs and then set her on fire after killing her family in front of her, who bet beers if they can snipe a child from 100m, who piss on dying civilians they just shot to pieces, who raze and starve whole cities, who deliberately bomb hospitals and schools, who hunt civilians from choppers with nightvision and missiles, who violate with laughter every clause of the Geneva Convention, who run concentration camps?
Yes, this is a knotty problem – but only if you are another sick skYanki mindfucked bastard without morals – to the rest of the world, the answer is very clear + simple – eliminate these vermin with extreme prejudice!
One sure way to slow down a rapist … is castration
GameBoyz believe war is a video-game, where every imaginable barbarity can be committed without consequences – well, they were half right – as these 3 meatballs will discover, they will be on video, but it’s no game!
… and when choking on own balls, laughter will be remote
… not pretty, but, what goes around comes around, and reality bites back with a vengeance
Unity and Victory to the heroic Iraqi Resistance !!
May 13th, 2007 at 7:32 amShame + Defeat to degenerate United skYanki Losers!
PS: the following comment has been CENSORED x1 on this board – why? Is it just to hide complicity in ongoing warcrimes? Where is freedom of speech in your so-called ‘democracy’?
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What punishment befits US GameBoy Warcriminals who invade and destroy nations without any legal justification whatsoever, who organise oil-piracy for fascist world domination, who terrorise the world with nukes, who crush children’s testicles in front of their parents to ‘extract’ false confessions, who murder civilians randomly for fun, who rape 12 year old girls in gangs and then set her on fire after killing her family in front of her, who bet beers if they can snipe a child from 100m, who piss on dying civilians they just shot to pieces, who raze and starve whole cities, who deliberately bomb hospitals and schools, who hunt civilians from choppers with nightvision and missiles, who violate with laughter every clause of the Geneva Convention, who run concentration camps?
Yes, this is a knotty problem – but only if you are another sick skYanki mindfucked bastard without morals – to the rest of the world, the answer is very clear + simple – eliminate these vermin with extreme prejudice!
One sure way to slow down a rapist … is castration
GameBoyz believe war is a video-game, where every imaginable barbarity can be committed without consequences – well, they were half right – as these 3 meatballs will discover, they will be on video, but it’s no game!
… and when choking on own balls, laughter will be remote
… not pretty, but, what goes around comes around, and reality bites back with a vengeance
Unity and Victory to the heroic Iraqi Resistance !!
May 13th, 2007 at 8:39 amShame + Defeat to degenerate United skYanki Losers!