US soldier killed by roadside bomb in northern Iraq... # 1038

[Olive]

BAGHDAD (AFP) -A US soldier was killed when a roadside bomb hit a patrol near the town of Tikrit.


"One Task Force Danger Soldier was killed when anti-Iraqi forces (US military terminology for insurgents) attacked a combat patrol using an improvised explosive device near Tikrit at about 9:15 am (0515 GMT)," a US military statement said Wednesday.


"No other Soldiers were wounded in the attack," it added.


Iraqi police reported earlier that an Iraqi civilian was killed and two wounded in a similar attack near Tikrit Wednesday, but it was not immediately possible to verify whether it was in the same explosion.

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040922/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_unrest_us_toll&cid=1514&ncid=1473

[llmart]

1. And so we begin another day.....

with this godawful mess in Iraq.

[bluestateguy]

2. Despicable

George W. Bush sends another soldier to his death.

[Richardson08]

6. It's all Dan Rather's fault

[0007]

3. A new term! Anti-Iraqi forces (US military terminology for insurgents)

Freedom fighters, Rebels, revolutionist, insurrectionist, and revolter are a few other terms.

In 1776 we were in a revolutionary war against England. Isn't the Iraqi fighting for the same freedom that we fought the British?

Sire Rove picks the term that fits his picture.

No wonder other counties hate us for our freedom and our loving God fearing ways.

[JuniorPlankton]

4. I would even settle

for "anti-government forces"

But "anti-Iraqi"????
WTF?

[deutsey]

5. 60 US troops killed in 22 days

http://icasualties.org/oif/

Yet, our punditry is all a-twitter about CBS and Dan Rather.


:puke:

[catmandu57]

7. What the hell is it going to take?

Sometimes I think we could have thousands of dead, thousands of wounded, be pouring even more money down this rathole, and still noone would give a fat rat's ass.
I suppose as long as we can still buy relatively cheap gas everything is just fine.
I'm getting to hate starting my day this way.

[saigon68]

9. It will take almost 60,000 US Deaths 350,000 US Wounded

Rioting in the streets, the National Guard shooting unarmed civilians, the economy going in the tank, 2 million deaths or more on the side of "the enemy", disabled veterans in wheel chairs being beaten by cops with night sticks.

oops that was Viet-Nam not Iraq-Nam

It will probablt take more than this becausde this is a Religious War and the sheep won't give up so easily to "Muslim RagHeads" (not my racial epithet) but that used on the "other website"

[Wind Dancer]

8. So sad!

:cry: