AP: 5 U.S. Service Members Killed

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBDZGCRCFE.html

Sunni and Shiite Coalitions Join the Campaign for Iraq's Next Election; 5 U.S. Service Members Killed

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra Associated Press Writer
Published: Oct 28, 2005
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A Sunni Arab coalition submitted its list of candidates for the December election Friday, signaling the intention of many Sunnis to join the political process despite their failure to block ratification of the new constitution.

In the latest violence, the U.S. command said Friday that five American service members - three soldiers and two Marines - were killed Thursday in separate attacks. Their deaths raised the number of members of the U.S. military who have died since the beginning of the war to 2,010, according to an Associated Press count.

An alliance of major Shiite parties, which won the largest number of parliamentary seats in the Jan. 30 election, also met Friday's deadline and submitted its candidate list to the Independent Election Commission.

Former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, a secular Shiite, submitted his own list, including candidates from all major communities. Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Chalabi, a Shiite and former Pentagon insider, was expected to run under his own standard after he was unable to reach an agreement with the Shiite alliance that he joined before the January vote.

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illegal war will hopefully spend the rest of their lives in a cell at the Hague.

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this week (for the 2000th casualty) was somehow hurting the troops.

A vigil to try to prevent more deaths caused by lies is supposed to hurt the troops? Typical kool-aid drinking, mouth breathing, knuckle dragging right-wing lunacy. We know that Saddam was not connected with 9-11, that there are no WMD, we know all of this now, so why are we still there?

The Iraqis are being killed either by us or the insurgents, and it probably doesn't matter a great deal to a grieving mother which side did the actual killing, she knows that if not for Bush, and his arrogant demands to have his own way, her child would be alive. Getting out is the only sane thing to do.

Why continue all of the blood shed now? Things keep getting worse, both in Iraq and in America, and all of the blood and pain and misery are G. W. Bush and his corrupt administration's legacy to the world. He and his cronies need to be removed from office, and tried for their crimes.

and schools etc - even though they had them before we invaded.

In fact, Jebbie blamed Floridians for not having electricity and water!

My original question still stands.

the freedom of the Iraqi people". I don't remember ever hearing about that prior to the invasion, was that written into the Iraq war resolution?

even the GOP would have told him to screw. Now they've changed the rationale.

You have to give them points for knowing how to screw a whole population of sheep.

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Deaths are going up again. And the month is not even over. We're losing nearly 3 soldiers a day which is the highest rate since January of this year.

Read what the mother of the 2,000 soldier to die in this war said:

Annie Mae Spence, mother of Army Staff Sgt. George Alexander who died of the 65% burns on his body from an IED that exploded his Bradley. These are snippets from NY Daily News Article

She was asked for her reaction to President Bush's comments that the best way to honor the war dead is to complete the mission.

"I think it was a useless war. It's a waste of taxpayer money," she said. "They didn't find any weapons of mass destruction."

Alexander was a career soldier who served nine tours of duty in Iraq. He joined the Army after graduating from high school in Clanton, a town of 7,800 people about 50 miles west of Birmingham, Ala.

"There were no jobs and there was nothing on the streets for a young man except dealing drugs," Spence said.

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/360050p-306718c.html