Will they stop calling these infested piles of dung "the holy city"? These places are no more holy than the local landfill. They are Christless, lightless, unholy, Satanic hellholes where evil is celebrated and I am sick of hearing the lie that they are in any way holy.
Twenty families are about to recieve some heartbreaking news....God be with them.
God bless our troops.
Prayers.
"The holy city of...." "F" that crap.
I guess shock and awe, wasn't enough. Let loose the dogs of war, AND WIN THIS. Or come home.
At what point is Iraq officially all jacked up?
-"A brigade of the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division, part of the buildup, has arrived in Baghdad ... to quell sectarian violence"
This administration better get serious (and quick) about taking this 'enemy' on with real firepower to finally put an end to this crap, or else they'd better pack the f-up and bring 'em home!
I'm tired of seeing our best taken out and seeing NO RESULTS from those IRAQIs!!!!
Yeah - if we'd had real results, you wouldn't see these DAMN MILITIAS running around with all this firepower.
I'm not finding in this article a count of enemy killed. Gosh, it must have been inadvertent.
I think it's high time we sent our soldiers and Marines out there to kick some behind (after brushing up on their "thirteen rules of engagement, of course).
President Bush had better quit trying to win their hearts and minds and stomp the crap out of them, and he better do it immediately! Why send more of our troops in to be killed if we aren't going to give them the full force of the military to win this war!! He's more worried about them, than he is about our troops. Before anyone cries or whines that I'm being mean or anti-Bush, save your breath. I'm mad and I'm fed up seeing our troops die when we aren't giving them the support they need. The war is right, but the way he's fighting it is wrong!!
Prayers up for their loved ones. May God comfort them and give them strength in the difficult days ahead.
I apologize this isn't really "Breaking". It's the MSM reporting the total of those who died throughout the day.
On a local radio talk show this morning, was a man who claimed to be a 16-year special forces officer.
He said we are fighting a loser war in Iraq.
He said there are 40,000 now within the Green Zone, and so many thousands more within the FOBs (Forward Operating Bases).
He said we are fighting this war Vietnam style, a loser strategy. We send our fighters outside the perimeter, to be shot at and exposed to IED's, during daylight, and then they retreat back inside the FOB perimeter at night, allowing the bad guys to retake the city. Over and over, every day. Repeat process, every day.
What he suggested, is that a hard-core Special Forces General be the ground commander, and that our forces go out and take the city, and hold it, night and day. Snipers on the rooftops, patrols, with night vision technology. Fight a guerrilla war like guerrillas, on their level. Except that the hardcore Special Forces commanders have not been invited. If not, why not?
Any thoughts?
Quote " In south Baghdad, U.S. helicopters dropped Iraqi police commandos into the dangerous Dora neighborhood to stage a raid on the Omar Brigade, an al-Qaida-linked Sunni militant group, Interior Ministry spokesman Abdul-Karim Khalaf said.
Khalaf said 15 insurgents were killed and five captured during an intense battle at two abandoned houses taken over by Sunni gunmen, who he blamed for a series of kidnappings and killings in a bid to cleanse the once-mixed neighborhood of Shiite residents.
"We were provided with helicopter support by our friends in the multinational forces and we did not suffer any casualties," Khalaf said. U.S. aircraft gave covering fire, but the U.S. military did not respond to a request for comment on the raid.
Elsewhere in Baghdad, Iraqi police and hospital officials said a joint U.S.-Iraqi force searched a hospital in the volatile Sunni-dominated western neighborhood of Yarmouk.
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The Iraq's still need time to stand up, so that we may stand down. Let's hope it goes well, though we also know we have to prepare to face the worst, which these Soldiers families and freinds are now. May they find peace.
Dreadful. May these heroes all rest in peace. Prayers for the families.
Until today, US casualties had been the lowest for any month in almost a year, a third as high as at the same point in the immediately preceding months. Even with this horrible news today, US casualties are far below the same point in December, November, or October. There was not a word about this reduction in the MSM, and still not a word about overall trends.
These beasts are liars on the same scale as Joseph Goebbels when they deny that they misinform the American people to advance a totalitarian agenda. Let them suffer his fate.
So, what's holy about this city?
Time to go seize Mookie. Although if the man had any sense at all, doubtful, he'd have been on the road to Tehran or Oom several hours before this attack took place.
Just imagine their anger when we pick up Mookie himself. Just imagine how little I care about their anger.
Oh dear Lord, my heart and prayers go out to their families, friends and battle buddies.