4 From U.S. Killed in Ambush in Iraq; Mob Drags Bodies (Cries: "Where is Bush?")

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[Joe Hadenuf]

I don't know, my friend. But we had better slam the living $hit out of them now, or like the primitive filthy savages that they are (and always have been), they will take us for weaklings and we will reap a greater whirlwind from now on.

It's now morning here. Is the city still standing? Did we do anything??

[Joe Hadenuf]

There are thousands of Iraqis living in the USA who claim they want freedom --- why not send them back and let them work for freedom in their homeland? Why are they sitting back letting someone else do all that for them?

Darn good question FITZ. America probably has 100,000 Iraqi cab drivers alone. Most of them come here and have real attitudes and *do not* assimilate at all. You can tell how much they care about their homeland as they sit in America watching our people being brutally murdered and drug through their streets, while they hustle and rip off another Amercan fare.

[expatguy]

Oderint dum metuant.

[HairOfTheDog]

I am horrified for their families for the images they will endure. Hideous people did this.

[MeekOneGOP]

Patton was a GREAT one, alright !

[B4Ranch]

Where is the fear?

[expatguy]

There is none.

There was a time when the world respected and feared the United States. They respected our power and they feared us because they knew that we could unleash Hell on them in the blink of an eye and the push of a button.

Once given that power, we have become afraid to use it and our enemies know this and it emboldens them.

It is time that the United States remind the world that while we might be a paper tiger, we are a paper tiger with nuclear teeth.

[B4Ranch]

At sunset, nurses from a nearby hospital tried to take the bodies away.

Men with guns threatened to kill the nurses. The nurses left. The bodies remained.

Rewrite:

At sunset, no US soldiers from the nearby US military installations came to take the bodies away.

Men with guns had threatened to kill US soldiers. The USsoldiers never came. The US citizens bodies remained hanging from the bridge.

WHY? WHY? WHY?

WHY? WHY? WHY?

[MEG33]

We got them down.They are organizing to reenter the city.Would I love to bomb it to kingdom come after that display yesterday?Of course,but I am reacting emotionally.

We are going in in an organized fashion that provides us with maximum cover for our guys.Vent on..I understand the feeling.

[Happy2BMe]

Coalition Vows 'Deliberate' Response to Attacks

Coalition Vows 'Deliberate' Response to Attacks

By John D. Banusiewicz
American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, April 1, 2004 – A "deliberate, precise, overwhelming" response awaits the insurgents who killed four American contractors and five U.S. soldiers March 31, the coalition's military spokesman said at a Baghdad news conference today.

Army Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, deputy operations director for Combined Joint Task Force 7, promised an appropriate, if not immediate, military reaction. escorting a food convoy in Fallujah, Iraq, and those whose roadside bomb killed near that city on

"We are not going to do a pell-mell rush into the city (of Fallujah)," Kimmitt said. "It's going to be deliberate, it will be precise, and it will be overwhelming. We will not rush in to make things worse. We will plan our way through this, and we will re-establish control of that city, and we will pacify that city."

Kimmitt said the restraint shown by military leaders in the aftermath of the Fallujah attack – in which the bodies of the victims were abused and desecrated – may have prevented more carnage. "I think that there was a well-thought-out decision on the part of the Marines" not to rush headlong into the city, Kimmitt said, given the possibility that the insurgents could have had ambushes set up or might have used civilians as human shields.

"While (the desecration of the victims' bodies) was dreadful, while it was unacceptable, while it was bestial," the general said, "a pre-emptive attack into the city could have taken a bad situation and made it even worse."

But the lack of an immediate military response doesn't mean there won't be one, Kimmitt said. "We will be back in Fallujah," he vowed. "It will be at the time and the place of our choosing. We will hunt down the criminals. We will kill them or we will capture them, and we will pacify Fallujah."

At a Baghdad Police Academy graduation ceremony today for 479 new Iraq police, the coalition's civilian administrator also condemned the attacks, according to chief spokesman Dan Senor, also at the news conference. Senor read reporters a portion of Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III's comments.

"The acts we have seen were despicable and inexcusable," Senor quoted Bremer as saying. "They violate the tenets of all religions – Islam included – as well as the foundations of civilized society." Senor said Bremer promised the soldiers' and contractors' deaths "will not go unpunished."

Senor relayed Bremer's expression of sympathy to the families of all civilian and military Iraqi and coalition families whose loved ones "have given their lives in the war to liberate Iraq and free it from terrorism."

Bremer termed the attacks as "a crime under law and a crime against the future of Iraq," Senor said, and labeled the attackers as "cowards and ghouls" who represent the worst of society. Bremer also expressed his determination that Iraq's progress toward democracy would be undeterred by the attacks.

"These murders are a painful outrage for us in the coalition, but they will not derail the march to stability and democracy in Iraq," Senor quoted from Bremer's statement.

Related Sites:
Combined Joint Task Force 7
Coalition Provisional Authority

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[Happy2BMe]

Why? That's what the hell I'd like to know.

[Cindy]

JIHAD WATCH.org (AFP): "'BRIGADES OF MARTYR AHMED YASSIN' CLAIM FALLUJAH RESPONSIBILITY" (April 1, 2004) (Read More...)

[B4Ranch]

I am not reacting emotionally.

When I see an enemy of the United States who acts without fear of retribution, I see a firm need for definitive military action that will restablish such fear again.

My initial thoughts were to drop a few 2000 lb. bombs on the immediate area and remove everyone who was rejoicing at the deaths of our citizens from the face of the Earth. Man, woman, child, dogs, birds, everything!

Clean out 100% of the area 1/2 mile around the scene. Then the next time some Iraqi saw a terrorist placing a landmine on the road close to their home, they would KNOW the results would be total obliteration of the immediate area should an American die.

They would be prompted to call the police or military and notify them about the landmines location if they cared at all about their home, business, family or neighbors.

This would bring a immediate reduction in the number of casualties our troops are taking.

Cold hearted? Yes. Effective? Yes!

[MEG33]

I hear you and it sounds good to me..but the crowd would have been long gone by the time we bombed.Gen.Kimmitt sounded very stern..we shall see.

[Mudboy Slim]

"Has there been any great outcry against these atrocities by the "moderate" Muslims?"

I saw some quotes from Baghdad residents expressing their shame and sorrow as to their fellow Iraqi's behavior...MUD

[Kaslin]

Check out this thread

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1109399/posts

[k2blader]

That's good.

But if Islam is truly a "peaceful religion" the outrage would be resounding loudly and clearly across the entire mideast.

See also Muslims 'must not denounce other Muslims'.

[Mudboy Slim]

I'd also appreciate seeing some more condemnations coming from Muslims within our own Country...then again, maybe they're saying it but the Medyuh ain't reporting it, I don't know. The more I read about this, the madder I get...I can understand the emotions that lead folks to want to nuke the whole city, but I don't believe it would be right and would eventually prove to be a detriment to our overall objective of creating a peace-loving, democratic nation in the heart of the Middle East.

FReegards...MUD

[Cindy]

http://www.cnsnews.com//ViewNation.asp?Page=\Nation\archive\200404\NAT20040401a.html

"American Muslim Group Condemns 'Mutilations,' Not Murders"
By Susan Jones
CNSNews.com Morning Editor
April 01, 2004

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[XBob]

109 - bttt - "There are thousands of Iraqis living in the USA who claim they want freedom --- why not send them back and let them work for freedom in their homeland? Why are they sitting back letting someone else do all that for them?"