Suicide bombing kills five American soldiers in Iraq in the deadliest attack in 13 months.
By on Apr 10th, 2009 at 11:57 am
Suicide bombing kills five American soldiers in Iraq in the deadliest attack in 13 months.
A “massive suicide truck bombing” today killed five American GIs and two Iraqi security guards, and wounded at least 60 people, in the northern city of Mosul, Iraq. “It was the deadliest attack against American soldiers here in 13 months and the second in Mosul since February, when four soldiers were killed in a suicide car bomb attack against their patrol.” So far this year, 50 Americans have been killed in Iraq.
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God, I wish this endless war for nothing would end!
April 10th, 2009 at 11:58 amWhat can you do when the enemy doesn’t fight fair?
But this needs to come to an end soon. All we are doing now is giving the extreme fringe a well definded target.
April 10th, 2009 at 12:10 pmwe’ve got to get out of there asap and put Bush on trial.
April 10th, 2009 at 12:16 pmRepublican nut balls armed to the teeth have killed more Americans than that this year already.
April 10th, 2009 at 12:16 pmMrBrown Says: There’s nothing fair in war, and you use what works when attacking military targets. I agree 100% with the rest of your comment.
April 10th, 2009 at 12:17 pmThats five more counts of murder to add to the charges that should be brought against Bush/Cheney. Enough!
April 10th, 2009 at 12:17 pmOur prayers are always with the men and women who were put in harms way for a nothing war!!!! Our prayers are also with them in the other armed conflict and around the world where ever they are.
April 10th, 2009 at 12:18 pmPresident Obama had better stay resolute about his withdrawal plan, for the warmongers and chickenhawks of the right will use these deaths (and let’s be honest, our troops dying is only viewed by the right in the context of how they can be exploited for political gain) as “proof” we must stay and “fight”.
In fact, let’s speed up our withdrawal, and f*** leaving 50,000.
Give the Iraqi’s the keys back to their country, Mr. President, and get us the f*** out of there!
April 10th, 2009 at 12:19 pmSee, right wingers? nothing to be sad about. Bush’s legacy lives on, killing our soldiers so you can feel a little less scared of the world.
Fear is the primary motivator for right wing cowards.
April 10th, 2009 at 12:19 pmIts going to get worse as we start pulling combat troops off the street. The surge has been a phony tactic that really hasn’t changed any of the causes for violence in Iraq. This whole disaster in Iraq has been a total failure, and the thugs who got us into this mess are going to walk away, and that is what really pisses me off.
April 10th, 2009 at 12:21 pmI am sure Bush is sleeping well tonight oblivious to the continuing destruction he wrought.
April 10th, 2009 at 12:22 pmI can’t say that I didn’t see this coming, but Gen Orderno just said that the agreement to remove troops from Iraq will probably have to be ignored.
Be prepared for many more Friedman Units and budget supplementals unless Obama starts to keep his campaign promises and stops letting the Pentagon dictate to him.
¶ AIO
April 10th, 2009 at 12:24 pmangels81 Says:
Its going to get worse as we start pulling combat troops off the street.
I really wouldn’t expect that within any upcoming Friedman Units.
April 10th, 2009 at 12:28 pmI just wish Obama would declare “Victory, war over” so we move on. And why not? That war was won once Saddam and sons were taken out.
The longer we stay in Iraq, the happier Al Queda is, free to run around Northern Pakistan and Afghanistan while we watch the Iraq’s desert sands soak up our nations wealth and our warriors blood like some huge sponge.
I mean, six years and counting while training their army, with the goal being so they can they stand up and we can stand down. How about a little “Tough Love” here.
April 10th, 2009 at 12:30 pmWe’re not the only people calling for withdrawal.
April 10th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
Wouldn’t it have been cheaper if we had just bought their oil straight up? So many lives would have been saved and maybe we could have invested that $1 Trillion in alternative energies…
April 10th, 2009 at 12:43 pmgummble-bee-itch Says:
…”Firdous Square, where six years ago a crowd cheered the destruction of a statue of Hussein.”
Those “crowds” were shipped in by the US for propaganda, and there really weren’t that many people there.
April 10th, 2009 at 12:49 pmMrBrown Says: What can you do when the enemy doesn’t fight fair?
Indeed. But then why should “the enemy fight fair”? Anhow can they?
The US created these enemies by invading Iraq for no good reason. ( with some help from the UK of course) That wasn’t ‘fair’.
The world’s best-equipped military going against one crippled by sanctions, with no air-force left and obsolete tanks. That wasn’t a ‘fair fight’.
Using Wille Pete in Fallujah, mass incarceration in Abu Ghraib and torture wasn’t ‘fair’.
The American Revolutionary Army didn’t ‘fight fair’ as far as the British were concerned (and by the standards of the day).
British Commandos didn’t ‘fight fair’ against the Germans–Hitler declared them ‘enemy combatants’, denied the protections of the Geneva conventions even though they were (usually)uniformed.
It was never a ‘fair fight’ to begin with.
The term ‘fair fight’ suggests a significant degree of equality and commonality between the combatants. To make the conflict a ‘fair fight’ the US would need to adapt to the enemy’s tactics and to its scale of operations and methodology. But they should have anticipated a low-tech guerrilla resistance from the start.
Thanks to the dogma-driven stupidity of, above all, Bush’s political and military cronies,the US set themselves up for an ‘unfair’ fight from the start and even when presented with the blindingly obvious wouldn’t adapt to the new but predictable phase of the ‘fight’.
And I doubt that they couldn’t adapt, because of the damage created by dogma in the first place and then it’s ongoing influence.
April 10th, 2009 at 12:54 pmCOrrectionL “And I doubt that they could adapt”
April 10th, 2009 at 12:55 pmCan we just say we’re sorry and leave?
April 10th, 2009 at 1:00 pmIt’s time to end Obama’s imperial colonial hostile military occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan. It’s also time to arm the crews of cargo ships, container ships and ocean freighters. Time to sink all the speedboats along the Somali coast; they serve no legitimate purpose: they are not for fishing, they are not for deep sea diving they are not for trade; they are only used for piracy.
April 10th, 2009 at 3:34 pmReally, it doesn’t matter when we leave. It’s going to be a huge mess whether we leave now, a year from now or six years from now.
We’ve had six years to train an army – where the hell are they? Seriously, if we took x number of Iraqis and trained them just like we train our own soldiers, in six years they should have a minimum 50,000 man army, ideally much higher.
I’m just wondering where they are. After we leave Iraq is likely to become a satellite state of Iran, so I don’t see the point in staying anyway. It’s not going to be the democracy crazy right wingers envision.
As for Bush, Cheney, et al. they need to be tried in an international court for international crimes and let the sentences be carried out swiftly.
April 10th, 2009 at 3:35 pmI really think Dick Cheney and some of the radical Repups paid some one, to pay some one, to have these recent round of bombings occur. Now this may sound crazy, but at this point I dont put any thing pass these people who have totally flipped out because Obama won. Think about it, They still have enough people on the ground in iraq to make something like this happen. These folk will say anything and do anything to destroy Obama. The Repups have gone competly ape! The media is treating this like business as usual, it is not. From My study of American history, I cant think of any other period in history when this kind of over the top behavior occured. It will get worst unless they are called on it every day. The comedy shows are the only ones calling it for what it is. The comedy shows are the real press.
April 10th, 2009 at 4:30 pmWE NEED TO GET OUT OF IRAQ NOW! Let the Iraqi’s handle their own business. GET OUR TROOPS HOME NOW! If only my rant was loud enough to reach President Obama’s ears!
If all the people that showed up for the inauguration turned up for an anti-war march – do you think it would be affective? Will the White House listen??? I think that’s what it might take. Same thing with prosecuting Bush and the rest of his crew.
April 10th, 2009 at 5:08 pmOn the Anniversary of the illegal and immoral invasion which occurred recently, the message was sound and clear: USA out! Occupier out!
April 11th, 2009 at 5:10 amIs Islam a religion of peace? This woman will be killed because she is speaking her mind and “the truth”.
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April 12th, 2009 at 10:43 amIt’s great that all of you wackos weren’t around during WWII. Can’t you at least be grateful that we have not been attacked since 9/11?
April 24th, 2009 at 4:35 pm