Violence Sweeps Iraq, US Gunship Fires on Crowd ...

[annxburns]

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A U.S. helicopter gunship fired at Iraqis milling around a burning U.S. vehicle in a Baghdad street on Sunday, one of Iraq's bloodiest days for weeks in which at least 110 people died in clashes around the country.

The Health Ministry said the worst casualties were in Baghdad, where 37 were killed, and in Tal Afar near the Syrian border where 51 people died.

U.S. troops mounted a major offensive on Thursday in Tal Afar, a suspected haven for foreign fighters about 60 miles from Syria, but the military gave no immediate explanation for the steep rise in the death toll on Sunday.

In Baghdad, witnesses and officials said 13 people died and 61 were wounded during fierce battles in the area where the gunship fired.
The city also suffered at least seven car bombs and various outbreaks of violence, and insurgents fired a dozen mortar bombs or rockets around the U.S.-occupied Green Zone compound.

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=6212636

Sorry if dupe. Sometimes you have to wonder why Kerry wants the job. This is looking more and more like Vietnam Redux ...

[Kagemusha]

1. The US did this during the invasion right?

Why now after all this time? Just because, well, spite?

[Radius]

2. Video, civilians killed.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3648786.stm

Apparently by US fire. This deserves an explanation.

[featherman]

3. The crazy thing, the truly crazy thing, is

that this administration and the neocons thought they could invade and subdue that nation and those people by force, destruction and slaughter then peacefully occupy and rebuild it. With an infidel army! It was never gonna happen. This will be one of those colossal blunders for the history books.

But , hey, just turn up your country radio station and listen to Toby Keith. Then do your Christian duty and march on down to vote for that God-fearin' GWBush...even if you don't know quite where Iraq is or quite why we are there or what horrors are being committed in America's name.

[DulceDecorum]

4. Or come down to the 911 forum

where some of us actively defend this sort of thing.

[annxburns]

5. Or listen to CNN or MSNBC change the subject

to whether a Teresa Heinz Kerry said Shove it.

To Wolf Blitzer that is much more important. Makes his masters very happy too.

[Voltaire99]

6. Dictionary time for centrists: "War criminals"

war crime
n.
Any of various crimes, such as genocide or the mistreatment of prisoners of war, committed during a war and considered in violation of the conventions of warfare.

war criminal
n.
An individual who has committed a war crime

The above offered as a fee service to confused centrists who need to stop polishing Kerry's 30-year old medals and start speaking out against this immoral war.