Posted on 05/12/2007 5:40:51 AM PDT by navysealdad
BAGHDAD — Seven U.S. soldiers and an Iraqi interpreter came under attack Saturday morning in a Sunni insurgent stronghold south of Baghdad, leaving five dead and three missing, the military said.
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Prayers for them and their families.
No doubt the staff on both the NY and LA Slimes broke into cheers when this story broke. Cretins, one and all.
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The article is somewhat contradictory, but it seems that five are dead, and three are missing, with one of the missing possible the terp, who isn’t a U.S. soldier, but a contractor. Either way, the title you have is incomplete.
Prayers for those killed and missing, and their families. Prayers for all who serve, our very best.
Unfortunately, there will probably be a “film at 11.”
But none of the US networks will show it because its too gruesome.
My God, the media is up in arms about characters smoking in movies....
I pray for them. This wont be an easy road for them to travel.
It sickens me to hear of the missing. Thank you to the brave who have sacrificed it all. Prayers for the mothers this weekend.
We could have simply got rid of Saddam, ordered the Iraqi Army and police back to their posts, and put a secular pro-American strongman like Allawi in place and it would have prevented so many problems.
Bush is responsible for the abduction?
No... the terrorists who did this are responsible.
They and those who encourage them... which leads us back to the media and the surrender crowd.
Hey, AWW - let me take care of your car for you for a while.
After I key the paint job a few dozen times, slash the tires and crack your windows, I'll go to your neighbors and stir them up about that "pile of junk" that you have parked in your driveway.
Oh, why, oh why can't Austin Willard Wright take better care of his possessions, I'll opine to all who will listen.
Me, I'm just the car-looker-afterer guy. I got nothing to do with YOUR lack of pride in your stuff.
Al-Qaeda, Saddam, the U.N.?
Before in war there was always a good chance they would be treated humanely by their captors, but now other than ourselves and our allies that expectation has gone out the window when dealing with TROP. I have never believed in excessive violence before, and I have always been a live and let live kind of guy. But if there was a policy change that started mass carpet bombings of all these armpits of the world even I would just shrug my shoulders now.
We have given them every chance and warning to start behaving like a civilized organization of people, if these men die in the way I think they will then for G*ds sake pull the frigging gloves off and explain to them the harsh realities of reaping what they have sown.
I could agree on a secular presidential strongman for Iraq instead of a weak parliamentary government...
But regarding your other point:
ordered the Iraqi Army and police back to their posts
Which Iraqi Army and police would you have ordered back to their posts? The Fedayeen Saddam?
There was no army and no police in Iraq. They were anachronistic, defeated, dissolved and defacto nonexistant. Disbanding this paper army was no mistake. The mistake was we didn't create the new Iraqi Army earlier on.
SolidWood I respect you so I will make this clear.
We could have recalled the Iraqi Army, not Saddam’s secret police or the Fedayeen Saddam.
How could we have done this? By announcing members of unit X to return to base X if you want to return to duty. The Commandant of the Marine Corps reciently said Bremer’s decision not to do that was by far the worst of the war.
This was not Bush’s decision, Bush supported General Garner and the Army’s plan to use the Iraqi Army and retrain it. This was J. Paul Bremer failure.
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