Scores Killed In Sadr City Battles As US Death Toll In Iraq Soars

[Nambe]

BAGHDAD, Sept 7 (AFP)

Bloody clashes Tuesday between US forces and Shiite militiamen left more than 40 dead in Baghdad`s Islamist stronghold of Sadr City, officials said, while 11 US soldiers were killed in a spate of attacks.

Smoke was rising and US war planes roared overhead as armed members of radical cleric Moqtada Sadr`s Mehdi Army ran through the streets of the Baghdad slum after a night of fighting that left one US soldier dead and scores of Iraqis killed and wounded.

The Iraqi health ministry reported that 40 people were killed and more than 270 injured as a fragile week-long truce called by Sadr unravelled.

Militia fighters killed a US soldier and wounded two others Tuesday in a small-arms and rocket- propelled grenade attack in the sprawling Baghdad district, US Lieutenant Colonel James Hutton told AFP. ..

On side streets, Mehdi army soldiers, dressed in their trademark black outfits and civilian clothes, planted bombs in the road. ..

[BeHereNow]

1. Why are we in Iraq?

Someone please tell me.
I have no words right now.
BHN

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2. Can't ask that question enough n/t

[shadu]

3. US soldiers are in Iraq to rape an innocent people...

and they are doing rather a good job.
bush is in Iraq for these reasons:
1. facilitate israel's criminal aggression of innocent people
2. rape the US economy
3. build bases for use in future invasions
4. steal oil and infrastructure
5. create a presence near Central Asia for future oil conquest
6. piss off Russia