[Pharmboy]

Wonder if the 4th AD was getting close to Saddam? Just a thought...

[PeyersPatches]

Hoo Ah for our troops!

[Plutarch]

U.S. soldiers killed 46 Iraqis and captured eight in a series of attempted ambushes on U.S. convoys…

[HiJinx]

46 dead, 18 wounded, and 8 captured for a total of 72 that didn't get away. How many ambushes, I wonder?

[pctech]

IT'S ABOUT FREAKING TIME!!!!!!!

[fish hawk]

46 Iraquis enter paradise only to find there are no virgins waiting. Note: many more to follow soon.

[somemoreequalthanothers]

It's a pleasant change to have reports of enemy dead instead of just our own casualties all the time.

[steveegg]

Outstanding. I'm going to have to break out my Ba'ath Reunion Tour merchandise soon to go along with the Taliban Reunion Tour stuff (VBG).

[Ex-Dem]

Wow, I thought I had accidentally come across an old thread from March. Good stuff!

[jriemer]

Now that the Armed Services has started to announce body counts again with the sucussful repulse of two ambushes today, a well oiled propaganda machine will only start up and get into high gear.

We need a FR betting pool for when the media starts carping about "Ruthless American Killers in Iraq", "Innocents Bear Brunt of Retaliation for American Dead" and the like as it will be only a matter of time.

[Mr. Silverback]

Huah! Get some for me, 4th ID!

[Constitutional Patriot]

I'm waitnig to hear the DNC/Not In Our Name/Moveon.org protest over such a senseless slaughter of Iraqis.

Score another one for the good guys!!!

[ppaul]

US troops kill 46 Iraqis Terrorists

Good.

[FairOpinion]

Here is a fairly detailed description:

I think we have to excerpt this, so I won't post the full article, but it goes into a lot of detail.

http://www.boston.com/dailynews/334/world/Rebel_attack_turns_into_massiv:.shtml

Lt. Col. William MacDonald of the 4th Infantry Division said attackers, many wearing uniforms of Saddam's Fedayeen militia, opened fire simultaneously on two U.S. supply convoys on opposite sides of Samarra.

After barricading a road, the attackers opened fire from rooftops and alleyways with bombs, small arms, mortars and rocket-propelled grenades, he said. U.S. troops responded with rifles, 120mm tank rounds and 25mm cannon fire from Bradley fighting vehicles.

U.S. fire destroyed three buildings the attackers were using, MacDonald said.

''It sounds like the attack had some coordination to it, but the soldiers responded, used their firepower, used tank and Bradley fire and other weapons available to them, to stop this attack and take the fight to the enemy,'' he said.

When the smoke cleared, 46 Iraqis were dead, 18 were wounded and eight were captured, MacDonald said. Five American soldiers and a civilian were wounded, he said, adding that none of the injuries were life-threatening.

''We have been very aggressive in our convoy operations to ensure the maximum force protection is with each convoy,'' MacDonald said. ''But it does send a clear message that if you attempt to attack one of our convoys, we're going to use our firepower to stop that attack.''

Shortly after the firefight, four men in a BMW attacked another U.S. convoy in Samarra with automatic rifles, MacDonald said. The soldiers wounded all four men, and found Kalashnikov rifles and grenade launchers in their car.

MacDonald said the attack was the largest faced by his Task Force Ironhorse whose mission includes the hunt for Saddam. Military officials in Baghdad said they haven't reported a deadlier attack since May 1, when President Bush declared major combat over.

U.S. officials have only sporadically released figures on Iraqi casualties, and wouldn't say whether there has been a deadlier firefight that went unreported.

[Ben Chad]

How does one say DIE SUCKA in Arabic?

[cake_crumb]

They got too full of themselves and chose the wrong targets. God bless our troops!

[PISANO]

I sure hope they CONTINUE to wear their UNIFORMS!!!! Will not hold my breath though. Not a bit of honor in these terrorists souls.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Taking-care-of-business bump!!

[nwrep]

A chorus of Democratic condemnation emerged from the unwashed forums in DUmmyland this afternoon, as soon as this news of the US military killing 46 Iraqi Fedayeens became known.

Initial cries of "civilian slaughter" and disappointment at such few US casualties in the action (at last report, of our guys were wounded) gave way to disbelief over the military characterization of them as "ambushers" and "Fedayeen". Some posters claimed most of the 46 were civilians, while others dismissed the news as propaganda by the US military in the wake of President Bush's visit.

Here is a post that sums up the prevailing attitude in that America-hating outlet:

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The Circus at FOX news is saying that they were fedayen fighters, Ha!

Just because these guys were dressed in black in the middle of the night, to FOX it means that they were Fedayen fighters. Which is ludicrous but convenient for the propaganda machine to divert attentionaway from the fact that these were plain iraqi's.

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One poster compared this to the beginning of Vietnam, while another linked to the Breaking News story posted here on Freerepublic as evidence that "bloodthirsty Freepers" are loving this.

My response: Yes, us patriots here do love it when our guys kill our enemies.

[OrioleFan]

Interesting how they attempt major attacks after Hildabeast left saying that there was little support in America for our Iraq policy.