Five U.S. soldiers killed in northern Iraq on Sunday, military says

http://www.boston.com/dailynews/143/world/Five_U_S_soldiers_killed_in_no:.shtml

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) Five U.S. soldiers were killed in northern Iraq on Sunday, the U.S. military said.

Officials on Monday said three Task Force Freedom soldiers were killed in Mosul, 225 miles northwest of Baghdad. Details were not released.

A fourth Task Force Liberty soldier died of wounds sustained in 10 a.m. car bomb attack against his combat patrol just north of Tikrit, 80 miles north of Baghdad, the military said in a statement.

A fifth soldier was fatally injured in a vehicle accident at 2:30 p.m. near Kirkuk, 180 miles north of Baghdad, officials said. The cause of the accident was under investigation.

... I have officially lost count. :cry:

Bring the troops home a live and not in boxes.

Humvees burned and destroyed and no release yet of casualties from those attacks. :(

on edit: omg, Look what I just found...

a caption to a photo at Yahoo...

A man who was living nearby and was killed by gunfire following the blast, is brought to the hospital after three suicide bombers tried to attack an American military base killing two Iraqis and injuring 23 people, including three U.S. soldiers, in downtown Samarra 95kms (60 miles) north of Baghdad in Iraq Monday, May 23, 2005. (AP Photo/Hameed Rasheed)

Five U.S. soldiers :patriot:

If I knew magic words .....
I would say 'em.

If I could undo
what was done I would do it.

If you needed me to
be there ......
there I would be.

If I just knew what to do.

:cry:

W. bush you are unfit to clean the latrine these brave men use.
AWOL little punk.

many more will follow

You see, CNN.COM thinks they're pretty slick. Here's how their game is played, and anyone who is reading this post, visit CNN.COM the next time Americans die in Iraq and you'll see for yourself:

CNN buries American deaths in stories about Iraq deaths. Knowing full well that most muricans could give a rat's ass if some Iraqi finance minister is killed. But the headline will never say "5 Americans killed in Iraq violence". So most Americans will never read the story, and think everything is fine and dandy, because ragheads are killing ragheads.

Here's an example:
The headline reads "Insurgent attacks kill at least 34 in Iraq", and then within the story is the "By the way, some Americans died too!"

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/05/23/iraq.main/index.html

I refuse to watch CNN. They are White House whores.

Reports on OZ independent media tonight are saying that the US military has launched a major offensive against Guerrilla positions at Abu Ghraib west of Baghdad. Up to 2000 soldiers supported by helo gunships are pouring into the area. Abu Ghraib has been a bit of a no go zone for US forces due to the fact that it is full of guerilla's. Fighting is reported to be pretty intense. A lot of civilians are packed into this neighbourhood. Potential for high casualties. But if first you don't succeed then try try again!

I actually heard some Republican say on the radio that American casualties are down just a day or two ago. I think it was Hannity.

Christ.

http://www.antiwar.com/casualties/

http://icasualties.org/oif/

Military Fatalities: By Time Period

Period US UK Other* Total Avg Days
4 199 2 7 208 1.84 113
3 579 26 27 632 2.93 216
2 718 27 58 803 1.89 424
1 140 33 0 173 4.02 43
Total 1636 88 92 1816 2.28 796

To View Period Details Click The Period Number
Time Periods Defined
Latest Fatality: May 22, 2005
2005: Iraqi Police and Guardsmen Deaths


Military Fatalities: By Month
Period US UK Other* Total Avg Days
5-2005 49 1 2 52 2.26 23

I post the numbers periodically outside my house. I started when the numbers were in the 600 rds now I just don't know.

The soldier killed in the Tikrit car bomb and the soldier killed in the vehicle accident were reported yesterday, and brought the number for the month up to 46, and the total up to 1636. The new information here is the three soldiers killed in Mosul, which, added to the previous total, brings the month up to 49 and the total for the war up to 1636.

I hate reading the military's headlines - "Taskforce Freedom" "Taskforce Liberty"

so many lies and those awful labels that do nothing but represent death and destruction.

I cannot fathom how horrific all of this is...

:cry:

and "Operation Iraqi Freedom" is the biggest LIE of all. The Truth is they are being held captive and slaughtered by the USA. Did you see this story from Dahr Jamail? God, I don't know how he does his job and stays sane...

http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2005/05/dahr_jamail_coming_home.html

~snip~

Not too long after, I get an email from a friend in Baghdad who's just spoken with a friend of his, a teacher in Fallujah. She crossed another kind of "border" there, also guarded by Americans -- a border around her own city. She had to undergo a retinal scan mandated by the Americans and had all ten fingers printed in order to obtain the necessary identification badge which, unfortunately, she then lost while shopping in a Baghdad market. When she tried to return to Fallujah without it, Iraqi National Guard soldiers wouldn't let her back in.

"She told them she'd lost her ID in Baghdad at the market, that she wants to go home, that they have to let her in, but they refused," my friend wrote. "A neighbor of hers inside Fallujah was there and told them she was his neighbor, but they refused. She called her husband with her neighbors' mobile and he came to the checkpoint with her papers, showing that she is his wife and he lives in Fallujah but they still refused to let her in."

She was crying, my colleague said, as she related her woes to him. She had lost 9 relatives during the American assault on the city in November, 2004. Then he wrote: "I want you to tell your friends and your audience about this. Please ask them what would happen if they were prevented from getting inside their city although the people inside knew they were a teacher who had to get to their school?"

My friend also wanted me to ask what Americans would do if our country were invaded and the only ID that was worth anything was that given by the invading forces -- even though you had several of your regular forms of identification with you?




:(

I am deeply saddened that you were sacrificed for lies and deceit. The best we can do is to continue to fight the misadministration to bring your brothers and sisters home.

Justice will not come swift enough for those who are responsible.

Your suffering has ended.

Rest in Peace.

It only looks like the Grim Reaper.:(

Gyre

:banghead:

Fatalities in the War of 1812 were something like 2200 and in the Spanish-American War were something like 2400. Much as Americans tend to know zip about history, something in the back of their minds will echo that these were "real" wars, and perhaps that'll turn the tide.

When it hits 5000, I think we're going to have some serious rumblings here.

What a sick world. We're so insulated from all this that a Martian coming to visit the States would never think there's a war going on.

Sadder still, we only care--what little we actually do--about U.S. deaths; the tens of thousands of Iraqi civilian deaths and the rampant disease and crushing poverty brought on by our greed and intolerance matter not one whit to most people.

Whether one likes to hear it or not, soldiers are not innocents. Civilians are innocents.

*one* was too many. And the death toll of the Iraqis counts, too -- although the Pentagon seems to think they're counting coup, there.

Blessings to all those lost and their families.

It seems like neo-cons and Bush supporters are ok with military deaths as long as they stay at 50 to 100 per month indefinitely. I think 10,000 might be significant, as that's the number usually reported for Russian losses in Afghanistan, over about a decade. For some reason I think the futility of the Iraq quagmire will hit home then.

But Viet Nam took 58,000 so who knows?

you are correct

And that's despite recruiters' falsifying high shool diplomas and drug tests.

The most recent Pentagon figures suggest that 5133 troops remain missing from duty. Of these, 2376 are sought by the Army, 1410 by the Navy, 1297 by the Marines and 50 by the Air Force. Some have been missing for decades. "Desertion huge problem for US in Iraq war"
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10126890

Furthermore a majority of Americans now believe that the Iraq war was not worth the costs.

Bush's approval ratings is in free fall;
(CNN) -- President Bush's job approval rating dropped to near its lowest point and Congress received poor marks as well in a national poll released Monday.

Forty-six percent of 1,006 adults polled over the weekend said they approved of the overall job Bush is doing, according to a CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll

Bush looks like a complete ass when he says democracy is on the march in the middle east

The people on the DU and other anti-war folks deserve some credit. I often share the news posted here.

Still, the mainstream media is ignoring Iraq. They know that reporting a fraction of the truth would turn this country staunchly against the war.

How long will the life clock tick before you say "enough"?

and their families. :-(

...

:cry:

:cry:
RIP, soldiers. You were all far better men than those who sent you there.

So when will the pile of corpses be high enough for these sick bastards' version of the "Neo-Christ" to crawl down in the 2nd coming? damn them all. piles of bodies for lies and power.

they hit an IAD and their stryker was blown up. One other guy was burned really bad and has a long recovery. It's so sad. The one guy they used to call cream-puff. I heard he was just a really nice guy. His wife is being really brave. To tell the truth, I don't know how she's doing it. I don't know how any spouse gets through this.

God, antonialee, I don't know how anyone stands it. :(

peace,
lc