Posted on 01/27/2007 12:49:07 PM PST by leadpenny
No location in Iraq given. Just breaking.
On air person is now saying three separate locations.
Please let me know when you here where..
There must be a briefing going on and they are getting the daily report.
they are aiming for our soldiers now because they can feel the bone in our back slowly cracking apart. they are putting us away. they have won this war.
I'm not finding anything.
Mao told then Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, back in the early nineteen seventies, that the USA would not remain a world power for long, if it could not lose 50 thousand soldiers without being driven from the geopolitcal battlefield.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- The U.S. military reported the deaths of seven more American soldiers Saturday, while Sunni insurgents bombed another market in a predominantly Shiite district, killing at least 13 people in a bid to terrorize Baghdad before a U.S.-Iraqi crackdown.
The U.S. deaths raised to at least 12 the number of service members killed in the past three days. The most recent seven deaths were the result of roadside bombs, two in Diyala province, two in Baghdad and three others at an unspecified location north of the capital.
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2007/01/27/D8MTRPU80.html
No official news release yet
Oh, please. They've changed their tactics just like good terrorists do. One thing doesn't work, so they try another. Defeatists make me sick. It ain't over 'til it's over.
I feel your frustation, but as long as our soldiers are over there fighting, making such a statement is irresponsible, to say it mildly.
Looks like we're the ones who need to change tactics.
The number of deaths this month is about average.
http://icasualties.org/oif/US_chart.aspx
Although Mao had a point, it should be remembered that we are a democracy, while China is (was) a totalitarian dictatorship.
I read somewhere - forgot where - that the American public is not anti-casualties as much as anti-losing. It's is specially sensitive to casualties in a war where there doesn't seem to be any progress.
I think this is very true, as the Iraq war lingers on with no end in sight, the public will react negatively to every single casualty. And the media will pander to this sentiment and by doing so exaggerate it.
Things aren't going well over there, actually I think it's much worse than the media portrays. The media focuses on the "atrocity de jour" without focusing on the long-term implication to American interests of losing the war. Contemplating that is what's scary. As a freeper said - forgot which one - losing wars have consequences.
That said, prayers for the fallen and their families.
Killing Irani agitators is a start. I agree with you.
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