Children Among 8 Dead in U.S. Air Strikes on Falluja

[Nambe]

FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters)

U.S. warplanes bombed houses in the Iraqi city of Falluja for a third successive night, killing at least eight people, four of them children, doctors and residents said on Thursday.

A statement from the U.S. military said the air assault was part of a "precision strike" on an operating base for Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a man Washington says is allied to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network.

A doctor at Falluja's main hospital, Rafi Hayad, said four of those killed were children and two women. He said at least 16 people had been wounded, eight of them children. ..

U.S. forces have carried out around a dozen air strikes on Falluja over recent weeks, in one case hitting a truck lot. On each occasion Falluja residents have said civilians were killed and that Zarqawi was not in the area. ..

[bluestateguy]

1. America is so much safer now that those children are dead

:eyes:

[Bugaboo]

5. ah, but we are safer...

now those children can't grow up to hate America because we bombed them, killed and maimed their families and friends, caused widespread PTSD and other mental illness, and destroyed their childhood.

puts a whole new spin on preemptive strike.

[jumpstart33]

27. These are the acts of a cowardly and desparate nation losing a wrong

war.

[JSJ]

2. let's support our troops, damnit- those kids asked for it n/t

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. Hope the aviator is damn proud of his handiwork

he has trained so fucking long for. Handshakes high fives and beers all around. Shock and awe!

[leftchick]

13. They should be made to see what they have done....

Doctors try to revive baby Abdul Khalil after he sustained fatal injuries during an air raid in Fallujah, Iraq (news - web sites), Thursday, Sept. 9, 2004. American warplanes fired missiles on a building used by an al-Qaida-linked militant group in the rebel stronghold of Fallujah early Thursday, the U.S. military said.The military said intelligence showed that three associates of Jordanian-born militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi were in the area when jets unleashed a precision strike. Dr. Ahmad Thair of the Fallujah General Hospital said five people were killed, including two women and a child, and nine others injured in the strike. The U.S. military had no information about casualties. (AP Photo / Abdul Khader Sadi)

:grr:

[hatrack]

24. Of course the US military had no information about casualties

They don't "do" civilian casualty counts.

[bacchant]

4. Man of God, my ass. We've got to stop this soulless piece of shit. n/t

[pinniped]

6. They can bomb every single dwelling in IRQ and that still...

won't produce this myterious al-Zarqawi.

They say the same shit every time:

------A statement from the U.S. military said the air assault was part of a "precision strike" on an operating base for Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a man Washington says is allied to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network.------

[xxqqqzme]

10. remember the running SNL

line (showing my age here) Chevy Chase, during weekend update, would look N2 the camera and intone 'General Franco is still dead'

seems the US military has brought it current 'al-Zarawi was not among the rubble'.

[laconicsax]

7. another liberated Iraqi eom

.

[Sugarbleus]

8. I am deeply deeply grieved for those children, all the innocents..

I feel so, so sick for the Iraqi people who would just love to go about their life without the hell that they face every freaking day...

I wish to hell that SOMEONE would step up to the plate and address this outrageousness once and for all!! The MADNESS grows worse and worse every single day!!

Everyone over there is freaked out; who to trust. Who will get blown to bits next. Dirt and blasted ruins and litter and body parts and grim and no utility services, loose ammo all over, bombs and airplanes and tanks and grenades and maniacs etc..........ALL OVER THE PLACE!!

THIS HAS TO STOP!!

[Coconut Buddha Ape]

9. This sounds like classic terrorism...

Ter·ror·ism
n.
The unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or governments, often for ideological or political reasons.

Go ahead and paint a US flag on the bomb and drop it from a multi million dollar delivery vehicle. It still isn't any different from parking the damn thing out on the street and detonating it.

14,000 Iraqi civilians dead, 22,200,000 to go...

[xxqqqzme]

11. I am in awe when so few words

describe a situation so completely.

'Go ahead and paint a US flag on the bomb and drop it from a multi million dollar delivery vehicle. It still isn't any different from parking the damn thing out on the street and detonating it.'

Amen!

[donkeyotay]

22. Well said, thanks, and welcome

[David__77]

12. Complacency is complicity... we must speak out.

The longer these crimes proceed, the more unforgivable the world will be to the people of this country.

[Swamp Rat]

14. These reptiles do not give a shit about human life.

Fuck you Bush! Fuck you Cheney! Fuck you GOP and all who vote republican!

[Disturbed]

15. If it were more women and children..killed at one time

or they were in a school...then maybe more people would be outraged. Now it's just "colateral damage'.

I believe that is terrorism.

[Kemet]

17. I agree

But it's like they say:
Better fight them over there than here... In other words, better have iraqi collateral than US collateral. Anybody wants to take a guess why a big part of the world finds issues with this administration policy?

k

edited for spelling

[malletgirl02]

16. so called "pro life"

I'm wonder how many "pro life" people supported this air strike. Note: I put pro life in quotes to distinguish people who are anti abortion, but in reality anti-life in every way, the support war, and don't support programs that help the poor, and people who are truly pro life , those who support the right to life in every way, people who are against war, actively help the poor, and and all pro life aspects. I have complete respect for the truly pro life people

[telamachus]

18. Another one! Why?

This is the kind of story that needs to be spread far and wide....this is starting to piss me off.

I am starting to return to my 'fuck the soldiers they are murderers' attitude again and I don't like it....

[llmart]

19. Unfortunately, these types of stories......

will not be spread "far and wide" in this country because of the lame media we now have. During the VietNam war these images were seen every night on TV at dinnertime until the American public stood up en masse and spoke out against it. Now we've got crap on CNN like "30-second pop" and the other side of the coin, the nationalistic fervor on Faux News that drives the wingnuts to proclaim this is all a good thing. I'm sickened by this country any more. I know there are plenty of good people, especially here at DU, who are doing whatever they can to get rid of these evil people in this administration, but sometimes I feel like we're swimming upstream with a boulder tied on one ankle.

[Mrs_Beastman]

20. This story and others like it make it harder to look at that chimp's smirk

[Geo55]

21. You soul less POS

[donkeyotay]

23. The logic of genocide

We invade. They defend. We kill them. They resist. We must kill more. If we kill enough of them, they will... what? Come out of Fallujah under a white flag? This is a war of attrition. It's genocide in slow motion, and it's okay because it's not on TV.

We had no right to be there. But now we have the right to kill them for not wanting us there?

Many have admitted that we're not going to get the result we wanted in a "democratic" Iraq. The sooner we accept that fact the sooner we can move on.

[jmcgowanjm]

25. 47 KIA +WIA in Fallujah car bombing/Media dropped the 4

"The amount of combat that U.S. soldiers
are seeing is going up, but the amount of combat the
American public is seeing is going
down,"

In news just in from sources inside Fallujah, JUS has
learned that 47 US and US-backed Iraqi troops were killed in
the bomb attack yesterday in Fallujah, not seven as
previously reported. It appears the 4 was omitted
from mainstream news reports.

Sources inside Fallujah say that US Marines and Iraqi
soldiers were traveling in a convoy around 10:30 a.m. when a
car loaded with explosives was driven directly into
several Humvees and close to several hundred pounds
of explosives were detonated. Our sources tell us that a total
of 47 bodies were present at the scene including that of
the driver of the vehicle who was
martyred.

We're bombing Falluja for revenge.
The US is getting destroyed in Iraq.
We have no control over Ramadi, Falluja, Baquba, Samarra.
We're taking serious casualties in TalAfar.
The British can only get into their embassy in Basra
by Helo.
The pipelines are being systematically destroyed.

Casualty figures manipulated.

For aug Media released that 1100 wounded,yet the death
toll was only 66 on average the usual figure in war would
be 1 killed for every 4 wounded,with body armour and
other protective equipment this would lead to an increase
from 1 killed for every 6 wounded.

Now lets take apart those figures given.1100 wounded with
66 dead.this leads to 1 killed for every 17 wounded this figure
is far from being correct.
Working on the premise of 1 in 6 this would equate to 183
killed.
So on the basis of wounded given for aug of 1100 the total
killed should be around 183,yet only 66 was
reported.

[saigon68]

26. "precision strike"

Well at least they don't have to grow up before we kill them</sarcasm>

[daleo]

28. Terrorists shoot kids in the back as they run away

Pilots bomb them from several thousand feet up.

See the difference?