Roadside Bomb Kills Five Marines in Iraq

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Five U.S. Marines have been killed by a roadside bomb in western Iraq, the military said Friday.


The Marines were killed Thursday while conducting combat operations near the volatile Anbar province Haqlaniyah, 90 miles northwest of Baghdad.

At least 1,689 U.S. military members have died since the Iraq war began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050610/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

Mission Accomplished, etc.

Simple As That

Looks like the Bush bastard has no plans whatever
of leaving anytime soon. Why the majority of my Democrats are backing this is the part I cannot understand.

premature ejaculation, followed by, "pull out! pull out!"

using bombs and were now resorting to drive-bys out of desparation.

Five more dead for Bush's illegal war of choice.

which shows that the Iraqis are becoming more skillful in guerilla warfare. They never leave. The divisions do. Meanwhile, the newly arrived division is just learning the ropes. Even if they were part of the initial invasion, guerilla warfare is not the same.

Someone forgot to send the insurgents a copy of that report, I guess.

Please bring the troops home alive and not in boxes.

leg (paraphasing).---He has two daughters that could easily enlist!!!!!!!

:(

unbelievable! :banghead:

I guess Howard Dean really does speak for me!

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at the expense of soldiers' lives, eh? :eyes:

That brings us to 1692 DEAD FOR LIES!!! 25 DEAD in 10 days!!!

:grr:

that's why we're there, people.

bush's moral calculus: 20 american deaths/month is worth it to keep the oil flowing & america asleep & complacent as long as possible.

you have to have morals first!!!!

And Bush is as amoral as Ted Bundy, Charlie Manson, and John Wayne Gacy all rolled into one.

bush believes much of his own BS.

cheney? he believes what the PNAC believes, that it is morally responsible to keep the machinery of america chugging along as smoothly as possible, never letting the sheeple see the frantic goings on behind the curtain. anything is morally acceptable when the alternative is chaos, ruin, and a second depression.

i'm convinced that is what they think they're doing.

I see... don't put C4 on your flowers or candy boys... ooops

:sarcasm:

This is far and away their best weapon. This would be as stupid as never figuring out any counter measures for submarines during WWII.

And Shrubbie would hate to do that.

'Get the fuck out of Iraq right now!'

All the fancy electronic gizmo's and drones in the world can't compensate for that.

Don

Some are detonated by remote control, and others are detonated using wires. The remote controlled ones are easier to handle. US forces have been trying to broadcast signals ahead of the convoys to get the bombs to detonate prematurely, but it's a useless tactic against roadside bombs detonated by wires.

they have hundreds of tons of explosives that they got from unguarded warehouses after the invasion.

They are pissed. They want us to leave their country.

They will keep killing us as long as we are there.

the thing is, they've got access to that 380 tons of high explosives that went missing from Al Qaqaa last year. That's very powerful stuff, i think a chiclet size piece of it could be used to make a bomb as strong as a hand grenade(if it's what i think it is).

Those roadside bombs could actually be quite small and hard to see. :(

can't be won, examples:

Americans against the British
Americans against the Vietnamese
Hitler against Stalingrad
etc.

them. This excuse eliminates the need to think about what the hell is happening.

Beastly disregard for human life

And that is to stop reporting on military deaths:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,144344,00.html

As of May 17, Fox has decided it's just not fair or balanced to report anymore on the names or the numbers dead in Iraq. That's how they're reporting it; I'll let you decide for yourselves.

We had no right to go there, but I felt there was once a slim window of opportunity to "fix what we broke."

Now even that window is broken. Bring our troops home, now!

Boy that cache of RDX we forgot to guard has been really inconvenient. Think about it. A bomb large enough to kill 5 people at close range, made of military grade HX, is not all that big. And they've got tons of it.
The Professor

Now I am so sick of hearing the argument, well we lied to get in there, but now that we're there we can't just leave!!! WHY THE F NOT!?!?!?!?! Hello!!!!

We need to get out of that country, stop killing innocent iraqi's, stop killing our own children, stop capturing and torturing innocent people that we throw into prisons with no charges brought against them. This is just sickeningly disgusting. We need to get OUT NOW!!! God won't someone help?

:banghead: :cry:

the complete and utter disregard for human life by this administration, and what is more and more beginning to seem like genocide to me of Muslims by these insane Christian Fundamental patients is horrifying.

Now they are slowly but surely moving the fighting closer and closer to the Syrian border. If I remember correctly, regime change in Syria was one of the requirements of the PNAC's plan to re-open the Haifa pipeline...

Iraq, Syria Agree to Reopen Pipeline- Israel Resource Review 21st December, 1999

Iraq and Syria have agreed to reopen an oil pipeline shut down since 1980.

The reopening of the oil pipeline would allow Iraq to export oil through Syria to Western Europe at reduced cost. The pipeline will also bring revenue to Syria.

>snip<

For years, Iraq has been exporting oil the Iraqi harbor of El-Bakr on the Gulf and through a pipeline that passes through Turkey to Jihan harbor on the Mediterranean Sea.

Oil analysts said the reopening of the pipeline through Syria could lead to an increase in Iraqi exports. They said it would also reactivate the Gulf harbor at Khour El-Amia. They said Iraqi oil exports could be increased from nearly 600,000 barrels daily to nearly 2.9 million barrels daily for the coming year.

In another development, the U.S.-based Largo Vista Group Ltd., said it reached an agreement for 49 percent of a joint venture to establish operations in the United Arab Emirates for distribution of petrochemical products worldwide. Majority share would be held by the UAE's Silver Falcon.

***more***

http://israelbehindthenews.com/Dec-21-99.htm

The Haifa pipeline

There is ample evidence that the plan to reopen the Haifa pipeline from Iraq to Israel has been in the works for many years, with Henry Kissinger an early progenitor of the project. James Akins, a former US ambassador to the region and one of America's leading Arabists explains: "There would be a fee for transit rights through Jordan, just as there would be fees for Israel from those using what would be the Haifa terminal. After all, this is a new world order now. This is what things look like particularly if we wipe out Syria. It just goes to show that it is all about oil, for the United States and its ally Israel."

The plan was promoted at the time by Donald Rumsfeld, and the pipeline was to be built by the Bechtel company, which the Bush administration has now awarded multi-billion dollar contracts for the reconstruction of Iraq. The memorandum has been quietly renewed every five years, with special legislation attached whereby the US stocks strategic oil reserves for Israel even if it entails domestic shortages. In 2002 the cost of ensuring Israeli reserves by these means cost US taxpayers $3 billion. However the new Iraqi pipeline will slash these costs with the added advantage of giving the US reliable access to a new source of Gulf oil.

An anonymous senior CIA source maintains: "It has long been a dream of a powerful section of the people now driving this administration and the war in Iraq to safeguard Israel's energy supply as well as that of the United States. The Haifa pipeline was something that existed, was resurrected as a dream and is now a viable project."

***more***

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Iraq_War

Thanx

Guess Rummy can't count.

Try reading the fine "used car salseman" print instead of skimming the headline grabber, buddy.

We're winning. We've turned the corner. Freedom is on the march. We're bringing democracy to the middle east. That's what fearless leader keeps telling us.

This just never would have happened if we had been listened to two years ago.

We were right.

the number of Americans killed in Iraq will be bigger than the number of Americans killed on 9/11 before the end of 2005.
This is such sad news..

That is horrible. Usually when you hear about a roadside bomb it kills one or two (and one is one too many), but five... that is so tragic.

But nevermind, things are getting better, the insurgents are being defeated. "Bring 'em on" so we can fight them over there instead of over here. :sarcasm:

no-win scenario for America?

Now the sheeple won't have to be troubled with the knowledge. Too busy preparing for the weekend...

It happened yesterday. Funny how they hold off reporting these awful statistics isn't it?

the U S causualty now stands at 1692.....but there is a story from over seas that list the total U S casualty at over 9,000....You might ask yourself this, Why are the deaths of our service men and women that die in Germany or other hospitals not reported?

I believe that a casualty is anyone injured or dead. A fatality is a death.

Your assumption is wrong. And suggestions that there are thousands of "hidden" US military fatalities are wrong. And repeating them undermines the credibility of those who oppose the war. Our strongest argument against this war is that the country was deceived into invading Iraq by lies formulated by our government. If we aren't truthful ourselves, we undercut our own position. I know that because the govt lied to get us into the war that some people don't want to believe anything that comes out of the government regarding the war; but information about fatalities is and has been generally accurate and we should focus our attention on the real lies, not erroneous statements about the casualty reporting.

onenote

They do track deaths at overseas and US hospitals from Iraq war wounds, even if the Pentagon won't.

we'll soon be hearing about Operation "Fill in the blank with something cool and scary"

Operation "Vice Grip"?
Operation "I'll cut your goddamn balls off"
Operation "Now you really did it!"
Operation "Don't touch those oil spigots!"

Ever notice whenever the shit hits the fan in Iraq, they need to come up with an Operation _____ to pacify the right wingers?

Those damn insurgents are getting desperate. :eyes:

It's terribly sad. I hope that the soldiers step up their resistance to carrying out an unjust war of aggression.

very sad day. the news is hardly reporting it, CNN seems to be covering it the most. when MJ is over hopefully the news will be forced to focus on Iraq. RIP marines.

Its sad when a story like this doesnt become a major headline, I have been off line for a day and came back to see the US death toll in Iraq is now 1692.

It only has 2.5 stars? Freepers don't want anyone to see it? They're killing our sons and daughters and the news is buried before they even are cold. This is so wrong.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050610/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq;:cry:

I'm really feeling pissed off about it today.

:grr:

Rate it:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050610/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

what can you expect!

immoral war can NOT win.

Time to learn some history and admit mistakes.

Ask American people forgive him for the lies that led to this war.

I find it hard to believe that the Iraqis would spend $200 billion and nearly 1700 lives to "bring democracy to America" or even "stablize it."