DoD Identifies Army Casualty # 1004

[saigon68]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 8, 2004


DoD Identifies Army Casualty

http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/2004/nr20040908-1223.html

The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Spc. Clarence Adams III, 28, of Richmond, Va., died Sept. 7 of injuries sustained on Sept. 6 in Baghdad, Iraq, when his high mobility multipurpose wheeled vehicle hit an improvised explosive device. Adams was assigned to the 91st Engineer Battalion, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas.

The incident is under investigation.

For further information related to this release, contact Army Public Affairs at [phone]

I CASUALTIES CONFIRMS http://icasualties.org/oif/

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. Do you get the feeling that this thing has spun out of control?

The military has no control of large sections of Iraq. Guys are getting killed on a very regular basis. They are bombing the people we "liberated". There is an absolute US press blackout of first hand field reports or pictures. How could it possibly be that bush is trying to use this mess as the centerpiece of his election strategy?

[PittLib]

2. Is this for military personnel only -

or any casualty?... I just found out that an acquaintance had been killed after an attack on his convoy. He was a civilian contracted out of Texas.

[Maeve]

3. This is the military count

http://icasualties.org/oif/ also keeps an incomplete list of contractors killed/missing in Iraq

My sympathies for the loss of your acquaintance.

[PittLib]

6. Thanks a lot!

[seemslikeadream]

4. given to marketing executives

If military intervention in Iraq has been a grave misjudgment, it has been one resulting in thousands upon thousands of deaths, and done so without any credible evidence of imminent threat to the United States. Our flag has been waving, it seems, in servicing a regime change significantly benefiting U.S. corporations. What remains to be seen is an effective plan for the rebuilding of the civilian infrastructure, or any other benefit to the people of Iraq or the United States. It is an achievement that includes the callous and too easily accepted term, "collateral damage." This is a term where proportionality of loss is taken from the people who have lost, and given to marketing executives.

--Sean Penn, "Kilroy's Still Here"

[dbt]

5. The Kill Rate is escalating, isn't it?

A few months of one-a-days or maybe one every other day, then the toll takes a sudden spike. The "insurgents" have taken the gloves off--and we don't hear a freaking WORD about it, IMO.

I expect to see William Westmoreland show up at any minute to talk to us about the "enemy body count."

IRAQ NAM.

:freak:
dbt

[saigon68]

7. "Bring Em On"

Keeps coming to mind

[coalition_unwilling]

9. Remember, also, that October is Ramadan

And may be far worse, if it marks the start of a shift from stalemate to offensive by resistance movement in Iraq.

[Catfight]

8. Bush has no time for funerals, but time to slander and lie. n/t