Six Soldiers Reported Killed in Iraq Attacks

Monday, June 04, 2007

Six U.S. soldiers were killed in five separate attacks across Iraq on Saturday, the U.S. military said on Sunday, days after it recorded its deadliest monthly toll in more than two years.

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The pace is definitely picking up. Too sad to make partisan cracks on the mission anymore. Shocking how ready everyone is to accept this.

Posted by MrCairo at 2007-06-04 12:12 AM | Reply | Flag:

Is there a bigger screw-up in the world than George Bush?

Can the GOP find one in time to get him elected?

Posted by Twinpac at 2007-06-04 02:15 AM | Reply | Flag:

yet the righties cant admit a mistake...
even today they will defend bush and this war to their graves
is there any better example of blind partisanship?

Posted by Doem at 2007-06-04 04:25 AM | Reply | Flag:

"All but one of the soldiers were killed by roadside bombs."

Biden tried to make the point at the debate today that the reason he voted to continue funding the war while none of the other candidates did was because he wants to see more of those "cougar" vehicles in Iraq and to him not signing the Bill woulda slowed that down.

The cougars with their v shaped hulls are much safer against ieds and the like.

He's right that they need them but he's wrong about needing to capitulate to Bush.

6 more soldiers killed in 5 seperate incidences?

The really scary thing of course is the fact that the insurgency is actually just playing a waiting game for the most part. If it looks like War Eternal they will stop waiting at some point. Then it gets really ugly.

More senseless death in Iraq.

Rest in Peace.

Be Well.

Posted by dethspud at 2007-06-04 05:26 AM | Reply | Flag:

You are right, Spud. The Congress needs to be more aggresssive and let Bush veto their bills until they get enough Republicans to override a veto. It does not affect the actual money going for armoured vehicles at this time. Withdrawing troops starting now is the way to save lives.

Posted by sitdown at 2007-06-04 08:25 AM | Reply | Flag:

17 soldiers have been killed in the past 3 days. They're too strung out and too unprotected. The surge has merely provided more targets without providing enough soldiers for them to cover each other.
We're regularly seeing 6, 8, 10 soldiers killed in a single day, which is completely unacceptable for a war that's supposed to be in it's "last throes".

If we truly must stay in Iraq, if we cannot leave, cannot reposition our troops, then I argue that we must start a draft and get the 500,000 soldiers over there needed to secure the country.

We have to do something to protect our soldiers. We cannot allow 100 soldiers a month to be killed for the next 50 years. And our lack of response, our lack of adaptation to the continual attacks against us in emboldening the enemy. They just killed 127 soldiers in May, and what are we doing about it?

My first choice is to get out of that shithole. But if we can't leave, then we have to send overwhelming force.

Posted by Norm_ at 2007-06-04 10:12 AM | Reply | Flag:

Hey kids, can you say "permanent bases"? Can you say "korean model"? Or how about "hanging around a country illegally invaded with no fucking mission"?

Viva the empire!

Posted by panchovilla at 2007-06-04 10:35 AM | Reply | Flag:

One of my co-worker's wife just got her orders for Iraq on Friday. They have two small children. He was Army until a couple of years ago, she is career.

Posted by evashogouki at 2007-06-04 10:39 AM | Reply | Flag:

If the media would leave Iraq we would have no soldiers killed

Posted by jjdj1187 at 2007-06-04 12:00 PM | Reply | Flag:

Rest In Peace

Posted by Apocalypto at 2007-06-04 12:14 PM | Reply | Flag:

BAGHDAD, June 3 -- Three months after the start of the Baghdad security plan that has added thousands of American and Iraqi troops to the capital, they control fewer than one-third of the city's neighborhoods, far short of the initial goal for the operation, according to some commanders and an internal military assessment
In an interview, he said that while military planners had expected to make greater gains by now, that has not been possible in large part because Iraqi police and army units, which were expected to handle basic security tasks, like manning checkpoints and conducting patrols, have not provided all the forces promised, and in some cases have performed poorly.

That is forcing American commanders to conduct operations to remove insurgents from some areas multiple times. The heavily Shiite security forces have also repeatedly failed to intervene in some areas when fighters, who fled or laid low when the American troops arrived, resumed sectarian killings
When planners devised the Baghdad security plan late last year, they had assumed most Baghdad neighborhoods would be under control around July, according to a senior American military officer, so the emphasis could shift into restoring services and rebuilding the neighborhoods as the summer progressed.

"We were way too optimistic," said the officer, adding that September is now the goal for establishing basic security in most neighborhoods, the same month that Bush administration officials have said they plan to review the progress of the plan.
But American officers worry that many members of the largely Shiite police force sympathize or collaborate with the Mahdi Army.

The local commander of the Iraqi national police, a force run by the Shiite-run Interior Ministry, has been replaced three times since March.

One of those commanders, Col. Nadir al-Jabouri, a Shiite described by Colonel Frank as the most aggressive and even-handed Iraqi officer he had seen. But he was detained in late March by the Interior Ministry and accused of having ties to insurgents.
American patrols have been attacked in a wave of deadly bombings recently, sometimes within sight of police checkpoints, officers said.
www.nytimes.com

Posted by northguy3 at 2007-06-04 12:44 PM | Reply | Flag:

Former FBI Special Agent in Charge, Ted Gunderson. His investigations into the First World Trade Center attack and the Oklahoma City bombings have led him to conclude that a secretive group inside the US government is secretly orchestrating these events.

video.google.com

Posted by JeffnDenmark at 2007-06-04 12:57 PM | Reply | Flag:

These last throes last forever.

Posted by mOntecOre at 2007-06-04 01:10 PM | Reply | Flag:

These last throes last forever.

Lasting throes, maybe was what Cheney meant. Two plus years since Mr. Gravitas' pronouncement and their arms ain't even tired, but Loki's butt is getting sore sitting in his front row seat for Bush's Baghdad Victory Parade and Kumbaya Festival ....

Posted by northguy3 at 2007-06-04 01:20 PM | Reply | Flag:

Let's hear it for the rightwing fucktards responsible for this mess:

youtube.com

Posted by panchovilla at 2007-06-04 01:29 PM | Reply | Flag:

Other than President Bush, aka JJD, the righties stay away from posts like this.
JJD will of course, point out that nobody dies if nobody reports it.
Sad, isn't it, that we've almost run out of, or just run out, any half-ways intelligent righties?
I did say almost.

Posted by northguy3 at 2007-06-04 01:35 PM | Reply | Flag:

If the media would leave Iraq we would have no soldiers killed

*crickets chirping*

Posted by Spaulding at 2007-06-04 03:42 PM | Reply | Flag:

If the media would leave Iraq we would have no soldiers killed

Posted by jjdj1187 at 2007-06-04 12:00 PM

**troll under the bridge**

Posted by donnerboy at 2007-06-04 05:03 PM | Reply | Flag:

More accurately-

If we had no Soldiers in Iraq we would have NO Soldiers killed (In Iraq).

Posted by donnerboy at 2007-06-04 05:04 PM | Reply | Flag:

That's right. How can you have a fight if nobody shows up.

Posted by Kenoosh at 2007-06-04 07:45 PM | Reply | Flag:

God Bless Our Troops!!!

To Our Fallen Heroes:

Rest In Peace.

Posted by JustMe13 at 2007-06-04 10:51 PM | Reply | Flag:

If the media would leave Iraq we would have no soldiers killed
Posted by jjdj1187 at 2007-06-04 12:00 PM

Don't worry, little fella: only three more years before you're old enough to enlist. "Greetings, Centurion! One more legionaire to man the barricade at Hadrian's Wall!"

Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2007-06-05 08:15 AM | Reply | Flag: