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Posted by: MyWayOnNow 2 years, 5 months agoIn the period from Memorial Day 2006 through Saturday, 972 Air Force, Army, Marine and Navy personnel have died in Iraq. And with the Baghdad security operation now 3 1/2 months old, President Bush has predicted a difficult summer for U.S. forces.
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Obaku
May 27, 2007, 8:40 p.m.Killing random civilians and bombing residential areas is not the way to win an anti-insurgency campaign, or to encourage political sttlement between the sides in a civil war.
Just sayin'.
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Neophile
May 27, 2007, 9:16 p.m.This doesn't include those that died after being transported out of Iraq after sustaining injuries.
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bongy337
May 27, 2007, 9:53 p.m.You're absolutely right! And the band played on.........almost 20,000 military personnel have died unofficially. You see, as long as they the word "terrorists", they have justified this military operation in the public's eyes. These war profiteers must all be hanged in a public court.
How long must OUR children die for a lie??
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truthiness
May 27, 2007, 10:12 p.m.this is off topic. but this story really should have remained on the front page
http://www.netscape.com/viewstory/2007/05/26/no...
the senate passed s.2611 an immigration bill which, among other things, provides for creating a list of all people with permission to work in america...including citizens.
if your not on the list you cant work.
laboring for your survival just became a privilege to be granted by the govt
this is makes us serfs.
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TOtheMOON
May 27, 2007, 11:12 p.m."The police report did not mention the capture of an alleged terrorist or the killing of any militia fighters."
Am I missing something? Didn't the article say that a statement read that there was "a suspected terrorist cell" captured and there were 5 militia fighters killed?
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freeky-d
May 27, 2007, 11:48 p.m.972? Amazing. That appears to be the exact number of brain cells libsrfunny has that are not damaged by the neurosis.
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skyking2p
May 27, 2007, 11:48 p.m.Funny
Are you really GWB you sound like you may be reading from the same talking points he has this week. A full 1/3 of the population of that poor country have either left or are displaced, dead or in hiding. There is no more middle class and the people needed to rebuild the country are no longer there. but i guess in you world winning is just around the corner.
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Wizeone
May 27, 2007, 11:50 p.m."And the band played on.........almost 20,000 military personnel have died unofficially." I doubt this figure. The ratio of killed to wounded in WWII if I am remembering correctly was 1:10. I doubt if the ratio has gotten worse. I'll gladly concede to your numbers if you can support your fact with an unbiased source.
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aceofspades1
May 28, 2007, 12:05 a.m.Just one question - Doesn't anyone remember Viet Nam?
Isn't Saigon now Ho Chi Mihn City?
Isn' t DaNang a resort destination now?
Aren't you wearing something made in Viet Nam?
Didn't more than 50,000 Americans die there?
Okay - I know that was more than one question - but I don't want someone repeating the same thing about this madness in Iraq 25 years from now.
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Sieben
May 28, 2007, 12:17 a.m.libsRfunny Are you that "BLIND" you compare the rescue of 42 progress when you lost 10 American soliders and you are no nearer to settling the enternal strife than you were 4 years ago. You cannot win a civil war in Iraq and you shouldnt be trying ,both the Sunni & The ******es despise the USA and want you to leave . Whats it going to take ?????????????????? Dont misunderstand me about the hostages,Im glad they were saved,But Im extremely saddened by the continued death of your soldiers in a war they "CANT WIN"
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aquarius448
May 28, 2007, 12:48 a.m.972 fathers..972 mothers... 972 wives,girl... members...unknown. Their lives...PRICELESS!
This is nothing to snicker at or make stupid jokes about...This is real human tragedy. Imagine your son, daughter...coming back mangled, despirited and destroyed. This is a story about the dead, What about the wounded...THOUSANDS! The dead have a forced peace.
Bless their courage to do what they did despite the questionable intentions of a pathetic, morally bankrupt regime. F*** Iraq... Let them go back to trading camels on the bleeping Sunni Forex Market. Who would give a flying ptooey in the western world? I would rather pay $10 a gallon for gas than give these peckers the satisfaction of raping my country.
End of rant!
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aceofspades1
May 28, 2007, 1:39 a.m.Wizeone - if saving your neighbor from his burning house means having to break down the building supports. thereby causing the building to collapse, killing those on the floors above & other rescue workers already in the building, would you have second thoughts about rushing in?
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spikecwc
May 28, 2007, 9:32 a.m.Here is the real truth about the WOT:
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com
WAKE UP AMERICA!
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dghmailcan
May 28, 2007, 3:03 a.m.I know all you bush-haters have no sense of decency, but do you think you could tone-down your anti-war savaging of everything in sight till end of Memorial Day?
gh
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KingOfTruth
May 28, 2007, 5:23 a.m.4,380 Americans are murdered annually by illegal aliens which means that 12 Americans are murdered daily by illegal aliens, and 13 more are killed by drunk illegal alien drivers for another annual death toll of 4,745. That's 23,725 since Sept. 11, 2001.
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nikkibabe
May 28, 2007, 7:15 a.m.Who told ugly Americans that they can invade and occupy a muslim country, bomb their buildings, houses and neighborhoods, kill innocent civilians by thousands, rape their girls and women, displace millions out of their homes and livelihoods, and make millions flee their country of birth leaving everything behind "TO ESTABLISH A FREE AND DEMOCRATIC IRAQ"?
It is a fight disguised so ugly Americans can control Iraq's oil wealth, make their oil companies rich with billions in profits, help rednecks keep drivings their navigators, expeditions and Hummers.
What a inhuman disregard for other people's lives just to drive!!!!!
God bless those innocent civilians who are dying by the thousands for oil.
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Sedilia
May 28, 2007, 8:23 a.m.Unfortunately "IT JUST WON'T WORK". A refusal of the immigrants to accept assimulation is the key element that dooms it to failure. They will always consider themselves Mexicans and owe allegience to themselves and that country.
SORRY !
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ningyo
May 28, 2007, 8:27 a.m.who told criminal aliens that they can invade and occupy a democratice republc, kill their people,rape their women and children, displace millions of their workers...then get rewarded for doing so with a huge federal give-away that their own citizens dont get--ted kennedy and jimbo carter..and their useful idiots in the congress and dinosaur media--thats who
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spikecwc
May 28, 2007, 9:26 a.m.Four times as many people died in California from IED's, er..car crashes in the same time frame. Let's pull our people out of California.
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braveone
May 28, 2007, 9:41 a.m.GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS TODAY
today is the day to remember the brave fallen soldiers that gave you the freedom to be sitting on your computer ridiculing them and our government.
put downd the koolaid and the pipe, get outside in the sunshine and participate in honoring our vets, today and everyday.
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Sieben
May 28, 2007, 9:47 a.m.dghmailcan Tone down ??????? It should be vent your anger at a President that "WITHOUT CAUSE" the death of 3k injury to 22k for a "LIE" Are blind or just plain stupid,how long are you going to justify this unjust war?????????
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leatherneck
May 28, 2007, 10:06 a.m.This reminds me of Vietnam. And the list of dead goes on. Over 50,000 killed in Vietnam, I hope this war doesn't reach that milestone. Sad, Sad, Sad
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cjsmay
May 28, 2007, 10:12 a.m.Unfortunately "IT JUST WON'T WORK". A refusal of the immigrants to accept assimulation is the key element that dooms it to failure. They will always consider themselves Mexicans and owe allegience to themselves and that country.
SORRY !
Mr bush spent six years,running all over Mexico, latin america and south America telling illegals to come here and work.He intends to use this to break SS and medicaide.The worst part is the dumb democrats will jump in and help him,make it work.Are these reps educated or are they just crooks or just bumb?
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jzinkjazz
May 28, 2007, 10:23 a.m.Remember,that those 972 AMERICANS died so that you and I can be free .Without those men and women you and I WOULDNT BE SITTING HERE IN FRONT OF THE COMPUTER EXPRESSING OUR OPINIONS,so before you spout off how bad we have it here in AMERICA the people in MIDDLE EAST AS WELL AS MANY OTHER PLACES DO NOT HAVE THE SAME FREDOM WE HAVE,so instead of downing every thing in AMERICA stop and think of just how good we do have it,and be THANKFUL for those men and women.
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