U.S. Army soldiers take cover in a building after their Bradley

[dArKeR]

fighting vehicle was disabled by a roadside bomb during a major incursion into the Sadr City section of Baghdad, Iraq (news - web sites), Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2004. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/040922/481/mac10409221947&e=5&ncid=1674

[BrotherBuzz]

1. Ain't that bradley still under warranty?

I should think the designers should be forced to retrieve the damn thing.

[RivetJoint]

7. I'm pretty sure that

bombs void the warranty...

[BootinUp]

2. Who rates that down?

Pictures of soldiers in action. Makes no sense.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Bush fans, and from their POV makes all the sense in the word

last thign they need is for the average Murinca to see the disaster in Iraq.

They truly put their party before their country, and yes they sicken me

[luaneryder]

5. Freepers do that shit

they're always "putting the word out" to rate any story or poll down that makes the Chimp in Chief look bad. Even if it is contrary to the interests of the troops they so "lovingly" support.

[wellst0nev0ter]

4. Hope The Vehicle Is So Destroyed

That the insurgents don't salvage communications equipment from there.

[Romulus]

9. pretty sure they wipe the comm freqs, etc

Put they may have gotten out in a hurry :shrug:

[dArKeR]

6. I think Kerry should bring this up in a speech today. As far as I see

this was not reported on any news service. The situation is so bad in Iraq and the planning is so bad that these children were left on their own and had to hide until help could arrive. Why are our children sent out like this? Someone has to start looking at the facts, the Iraqi really don't have many weapons and surely zero sofisticated weapons but yet they are murdering and amputating thousands of American children.

[AlCzervik]

8. I was reading an article about that area about a weeks ago

I had no idea theat the population of Sadr City was 2.5 million people. Hopefully those troops can get the hell out of there.

[AIJ Alom]

10. As Allawi puts it...

Another sign of insurgent desperation.

See related thread.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x858975

[jmcgowanjm]

11. Everything N of the Green Zone is a no go area

An Associated Press reporter near the scene said a U.S. AC-
130 gunship raked one area with heavy fire after rebels loyal
to Muqtada Al Sadr opened fire with rocket-propelled
grenades.

(Now let's look at this: RPG's v AC130? I don't think so.
I think that it opened up after recieving AA fire that CNN and CBS
showed yesterday.)

U.S warplanes and Apache helicopter gunships also carried
out strikes. One helicopter was hit by groundfire but managed
to return to its base, and one tank was disabled by a
roadside bomb. There were no immediate reports of
any injuries.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6021654/

Fighting in Madinat as-Sadr intensifies Wednesday
afternoon.

The correspondent of Mafkarat al-Islam the Madinat as-
Sadr area of Baghdad reported that the fighting between
US forces and the Jaysh al-Mahdi became significantly
more intense around 1:30pm Wednesday local time. The
Jaysh al-Mahdi destroyed two Humvees, killing all
aboard.