UK Troops under Attack as Iraq Calls for Reinforcements

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4:33pm (UK)
UK Troops under Attack as Iraq Calls for Reinforcements

By Jamie Lyons and James Lyons, PA News


Iraq’s foreign minister today called for thousands more troops as British soldiers killed 15 fighters in clashes in the south of the country.

Hoshyar Zedari said Iraq needed 25,000 extra soldiers to cope with worsening violence.

Speaking after talks with Prime Minister Tony Blair in London he warned the violence would spiral in the three months leading up to the handover of power.

His meeting came as violence flared across Iraq, with British forces killing 15 Iraqis and injuring eight others in a series of clashes in Basra and Amarah over the last 48 hours.

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1. Truly Orwellian:

"he warned the violence would spiral in the three months
leading up to the handover of power"

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. Would the CIA please drop some leaflets and let the Iraqis

know that they lost the war and start enjoying their freedoms as a US possession. They could be just like Guam if they behaved themselves.

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3. Reuters has raw footage from Iraq

Bleachers7 had this in GD


It is the second column, bottom image. It is long and very good video. Also Chimpys performance today is there.

http://reuters.feedroom.com/ifr_main.jsp?st=1081223465218&rf=bm&mp=WMP ...

[dArKeR]

4. Thanks. never saw this before. What about the 'evil doers' the US soldier

was talking about? He meant aWol, Cheney and Rumsfeld, right?

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5. There are a few videos

I haven't seen that one yet, did you the the one about the land mines?

[dArKeR]

8. No, it is the last one, bottom, of the column 'World News'

It has a US Commander saying, 'We're going to get the evil DOERS.'

1. I really feel terrible. Watch this video. I really feel sorry for this mans family. In my opinion this mans life is a manager who probably does an excellent job at IBM, Boeing... but in no way should be out in Iraq!

2. I honestly don't feel a Battle Commander uses this type of vocabulary and body language!

PLEASE BRING ALL OUR CITIZENS HOME NOW! BUSH IS NOT WORTH IT! PLEASE WAKE UP AMERICA. IF YOU'RE FOR THE WAR PLEASE LET'S LET ALL THOSE WHO WANT TO COME HOME COME HOME, AND YOU GO IN THEIR PLACES!


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Just looked it's gone!


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I've still got the Real Player link on my desktop: ram-5.ram I'm not sure if it'll work for you guys?

The title is 'FOUR TROOPS KILLED NEAR FALLUJU'

If you can't get it: It alsos shows troops digging and pick axing holes in the desert. It looks just misserable!

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9. "To Convey...the Desire for Peace Across the Centuries."

The horror of the A-bombing was city-wide. Injured victims fled blindly through flame and smoke seeking a safe refuge. Nearly all were naked and in terrible pain, their clothes and skin burned to shreds. Many fell exhausted as they fled, breathing their last on a road or in a river.
The city was a sea of flame. The people fleeing out of it were burned too badly to be recognized even as men or women.
Drawing / Terumasa Hirata
Around 8:45 a.m., August 6, 1945
Approx. 2,200m from the hypocenter
Ushita-machi (now, Ushita-minami 1-chome)



Corpses Floating in the River

Hiroshima is built on the Otagawa River delta, and the seven rivers running through it were vital to its growth. They provided a convenient network for the transportation of cargo and served as children's playgrounds as well. After the bombing, burned victims went to the rivers for water. Some jumped in or swam across to escape the fire, but many died in the water, floating down with the current or hung up on the pilings. The Otagawa River was completely full of corpses.
Thousands of bloated corpses drift on the water surface.
Drawing / Shunsaburo Tanabe
August 7, 1945
Motoyasugawa River





In 1945, schools at the junior high level and above had nearly abandoned schooling. Instead, students were mobilized to work in military factories or demolish buildings for fire lanes. Of the approximately 8,400 students mobilized, 6,300 were killed. The first- and second-year junior high students and girls who were out in the open demolishing buildings in the city center were hardest hit.
Mothers moved among the wounded mobilized students who had been laid out. When one found her child, she would burst into tears and embrace her or him.
Drawing / Anonymous
August 7, 1945
Approx. 1,700m from the hypocenter
Outside Yokogawa Station, Yokogawa-cho 3-chome



With everything destroyed by fire, bridges were precious landmarks for orientation. Many of the fleeing victims rested on or below bridges, often breathing their last there. Seven bridges collapsed or were burned due to the A-bomb, but another 20 were washed away in the typhoon and flooding that struck the city that September and October. These subsequent losses, too, were largely attributable to A-bomb damage.

A cart driver and his horse died together on the approach to the bridge.
Drawing / Masahiko Nakata
Approx. 1,250m from the hypocenter
Yokogawa-shin Bridge

http://www.pcf.city.hiroshima.jp/virtual/VirtualMuseum_e/exhibit_e/exh...

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10. Is there a way I can 'Save As' or grab this from cache? You've got to see

this everyone! This guy doesn't belong in Iraq. And I'd bet he'd and his entire Division would too if they had the chance!

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6. Bizzaro world

The Iraqi foreign minister is calling for British troops to fight his own people - quite the 'foreign' minister, all right.

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7. I've got some news for Mr. Zedari....

Britain's tour of duty is about to expire. I read it here at the DU that their war funding will run out at the end of June, so they have to go home no matter how out of control the situation gets. Also, Sr. Zapatero has vowed to bring home his troops. I think 2 other countries will be doing the same thing.

What next, George & Donald?