Two Days of Tragedy in Iraq
The news out of Iraq for just two days of “Bush War.”
On Friday (12/24/06) suspected Sunni insurgents killed 215 people in the Shiite slum with mortars and five car bombs in the deadliest single attack of the war. Iraq's sectarian violence shifted to Diyala province north of Baghdad, where gunmen broke into two Shiite homes and killed 21 men in front of their relatives, police said. U.S. and Iraqi forces also killed 58 insurgents during fighting in the same region. In central Iraq, a suicide car bomber attacked a checkpoint near Fallujah, killing three Iraqi civilians and a U.S. service member, and wounding nine civilians and an American service member. The dead included two Iraqi children and an adult. A U.S. Marine also died from wounds sustained while fighting in Anbar province on Friday, the military said, raising to at least 2,874 the number of U.S. servicemen who have died since the war began in 2003. So far, 54 American service members have died this month in Iraq. In Baghdad Iraqi soldiers at a nearby army post failed to intervene in an assault by suspected members of the Shiite Mahdi Army militia or subsequent attacks that killed as many as 25 Sunnis.
And we keep hearing from the administration about the “good things” that are going on over there, which they claim the media does not report. I don’t know about you, but I truly resent Bush, Cheney, Rove, and Rice thinking that we are so stupid not to realize what is going on in “their war.” It is obvious that this is a “civil war” and we don’t belong there. Nothing will change in one month, one year, or five years. So let’s get the hell out now and save the lives of untold Americans, and save the cost of almost 100 billion dollars a year. Instead of saving face and not admitting a costly mistake, let’s save the lives of our fellow countrymen and women.
On Friday (12/24/06) suspected Sunni insurgents killed 215 people in the Shiite slum with mortars and five car bombs in the deadliest single attack of the war. Iraq's sectarian violence shifted to Diyala province north of Baghdad, where gunmen broke into two Shiite homes and killed 21 men in front of their relatives, police said. U.S. and Iraqi forces also killed 58 insurgents during fighting in the same region. In central Iraq, a suicide car bomber attacked a checkpoint near Fallujah, killing three Iraqi civilians and a U.S. service member, and wounding nine civilians and an American service member. The dead included two Iraqi children and an adult. A U.S. Marine also died from wounds sustained while fighting in Anbar province on Friday, the military said, raising to at least 2,874 the number of U.S. servicemen who have died since the war began in 2003. So far, 54 American service members have died this month in Iraq. In Baghdad Iraqi soldiers at a nearby army post failed to intervene in an assault by suspected members of the Shiite Mahdi Army militia or subsequent attacks that killed as many as 25 Sunnis.
And we keep hearing from the administration about the “good things” that are going on over there, which they claim the media does not report. I don’t know about you, but I truly resent Bush, Cheney, Rove, and Rice thinking that we are so stupid not to realize what is going on in “their war.” It is obvious that this is a “civil war” and we don’t belong there. Nothing will change in one month, one year, or five years. So let’s get the hell out now and save the lives of untold Americans, and save the cost of almost 100 billion dollars a year. Instead of saving face and not admitting a costly mistake, let’s save the lives of our fellow countrymen and women.
posted by Sam Schoolsky | 5:25 PM
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