U.S. says five American soldiers killed in fighting in Iraqi city of Najaf

[still_one]

This is from the news flash reported from Haaretz, which is usually correct...

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/

[bleedingheart]

1. This is the winning the peace part?

so sorry for the families....

[Ironpost]

3. So sad for the soldiers and countries

[demnan]

2. We won't get Najaf back

They are fighting for their freedom, it's a lost cause. We will continue to lose lives there and so will they.

:cry:

[asjr]

7. It will only get worse. I feel there will be total chaos

before much longer and we will have no choice but to retreat. Shrub can say stay the course as long as he wants, but fortitude for the wrong reason doesn't look good from the barrel of a gun.

[Ripley]

4. Lunaville has 931, so this makes it 936!

At this rate it will be over 1000 before the election!

At least I heard Kerry's position is morphing. Thanks for small wonders.

RIP soldiers.

[catmandu57]

13. Long before then I'd think

but the reaction to 1000 dead is what's going to be interesting. Do people sit up and take notice, or, just go on with their lives with a nothing to see here attitude.

[Flagg]

5. BRING' EM ON ! cried the AWOL CHIMP

[markses]

6. I don't see any such headline or flash on the Haaretz site.

I'll wait for confirmation.

[Scurrilous]

8. Try this:

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/ShTickers.html

[Minstrel Boy]

9. It's there; scroll down the arrow for the news flash:

"17:24 U.S. says five American soldiers killed in fighting in Iraqi city of Najaf (AP)"

[Cocoa]

10. memos are going out to all the whores

let's make this "Lori Hacking week."

[daleo]

11. The marines will claim they killed 5000 insurgents now.

Rest in Peace, everyone sacrificed to Bush's criminal disaster.

[jayfish]

12. Well That Should Just About Wrap Things Up Then.

Didn't the US military tell us that the insurgency was limited to 5,000 members? :eyes:

Jay

[theHandpuppet]

14. RIP, young men and women

Meanwhile, your "commander-in-chief" won't lose a wink's sleep -- too busy having fun in the bass boat.

My heart goes out to the families whose children, parents and spouses have just become another tally number in Bush's damnable war.

[llmart]

18. And I heard some media whore on CNN......

repeat three times that this vacation was "rare" for *. I wanted to jump through the screen and strangle her. Rare vacation??? Rare time off? Who the F--- do they think they're kidding? That asswipe has been on vacation since he stole the election in 2000.

Meanwhile, our young people are getting blown to smithereens for the Bush/Cheney pocketbooks.

[leftchick]

15. there was a very brief mention of the 5 deaths this morning on TV....

either CNN or MSRNC I can't remember which one.

:(

[hadrons]

16. 5 Kobe accussers killed fighting Lacy???

that how the public will process the info ... if they hear it

[GregW]

17. Or ... 5 sharks killed fighting Gary Condit.

:eyes:

[0007]

19. The situation was suppose to get better after the killing of

Saddam Hussein's two son. Then was gonna get better after Saddam Hussein capture, then the same thing was said after the hand-over to Iraq.

Bring the troops home and things will get better.

[markses]

20. Just as information, we have reached the hlfway point:

More US personnel have been killed SINCE Saddam's capture than BEFORE Saddam's capture. Just sayin'.

[ljm2002]

21. Question re: another figure of interest...

Anyone know how many U.S. troops were killed before and after the "end of major combat operations"?

[catmandu57]

22. go to

http://www.icasualties.org they have everything broken down.
edit: that link is messed up either I've got some bug messing with me or they have I'm trying to fix it now.

[catmandu57]

23. Links fine now

They aren't reporting an five additional dead though still at 931.

[MaineDem]

26. I had trouble at their site earlier

Seems to be fine now.

[The Magistrate]

24. The Statistics Are Inexorable

Things are right on course for the figure to top one thousand simultaneously with this wretched reptile making his acceptance speech at the Republican convention. It will make for a great bounce....

"LET'S GO GET THOSE BUSH BASTARDS!"

[mountebank]

25. MSNBC.com has it buried in 8th paragraph.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5455104/

<snip>

Five U.S. troops have been killed in Najaf, according to the military, and the U.S. official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said 19 others had been wounded. He said four Iraqi national guardsmen also had been killed and 12 others had been wounded.

<snip>

It's not really clear if they mean today.