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~Shears

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~Shears

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~Shears

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~Shears

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~Shears

You know what Doc, I've almost broken faith with this LOST generation of young people. If the figures are to be believed, they didn't turn out in the numbers anticipated in the ONE ELECTION which clearly was in their self-interest to vote.

But if they couldn't unglue themselves from their video games or find time to read a book, the impending DRAFT is sure to concentrate even these apathetic minds. That's one of the lessons of Vietnam, isn't it? These kids are next in the Bush regime's urgent search for bodies to throw into the breach. As he said, "you can run but you can't hide."

Maybe once these kids get in the Pentagon's cross hairs they'll wake up and take to the streets, in a repeat of the 1960s. Maybe Bush will be impeached, because this country simply cannot tolerate 10,000 casualties anymore.

I sure hope so. But I'm a realist too.

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~Shears

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I am not really good at math, but does it seem like since they hit 1000, the rest seem to be happening at a faster rate?
And i'm pretty sure MOST of these have some after bushs "mission accomplished" speech. I don't get that.
It is very sad, and i still can't see what any of these people had to die for (and i don't even want to think of what the number of dead iraqi civilians might be.

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~Shears

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•1280 •1281 •1282 •1283 •1284 •1285

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~Shears

'Bina.

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•1293 •1294 •1295 •1296 •1297 •1298

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What about the 100,000+ dead Iraqis?
Its like 1 u.s. soldier life is worth more than 120 Iraqi civilian lives.

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~Shears

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52 U.S. Troops this month so far.

I created this addition to the Blog for last Christmas.

It would seem this is a good time to visit it again.


Photo Assay: Boots on the Ground


Supporting the troops isn't about supporting the team.
It's about not having to pay your own phone bill to talk to your mom while you're sitting in Walter Reed waiting for a prosthetic leg!

1,500
and counting.

Requiescat In Pace, my fellow Americans.

What a Catastrophuck! The whole world is watching.



A helicopter flies close to black smoke billowing over central Baghdad. Two suicide car bombs outside Iraq (news - web sites)'s interior ministry and another near a police station in Baqbuba killed six people, as Shiite political parties piled pressure on the Kurds to join them in a governing coalition.(AFP/Marwan Naamani)

An unidentified U.S. army soldier patrols near the entrance to the Green Zone in the Karada district of Baghdad, Iraq (news - web sites) Thursday, March 3, 2005. The number of U.S. military deaths in Iraq topped 1,500, an Associated Press count showed Thursday after the military announced the deaths of three Americans. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

An unidentified U.S. army soldier patrols near the entrance to the Green Zone in the Karada district of Baghdad, Iraq (news - web sites) Thursday, March 3, 2005. The number of U.S. military deaths in Iraq topped 1,500, an Associated Press count showed Thursday after the military announced the deaths of three Americans. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

An Iraqi walks past US and Iraqi soldiers as they secure an area in Baghdad following explosions. Two suicide car bombs outside Iraq (news - web sites)'s interior ministry and another near a police station in Baqbuba killed six people, as Shiite political parties piled pressure on the Kurds to join them in a governing coalition.(AFP/Karim Sahib)



Unidentified U.S. soldiers patrol near the entrance to the Green Zone in the Karada district of Baghdad, Iraq (news - web sites) Thursday, March 3, 2005. The number of U.S. military deaths in Iraq topped 1,500, an Associated Press count showed Thursday after the military announced the deaths of three Americans. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Two U.S. Marines wait at a bus stop during a dust storm at the al-Asad military camp in western Iraq (news - web sites), March 3, 2005. A U.S. Marine was killed in action in Iraq on Wednesday, the U.S. military said on Thursday. The attack has raised the number of U.S. troops killed in combat in Iraq to at least 1,140 since the start of the war that toppled Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) in April 2003. REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...n_re_mi_ea/iraq
U.S. Troops Deaths in Iraq Top 1,500

29 minutes ago Middle East - AP


By TODD PITMAN, Associated Press Writer

BAGHDAD, Iraq - The number of U.S. troops killed in Iraq (news - web sites) has topped 1,500, an Associated Press count showed Thursday after the military announced the deaths of three Americans, while car bombs targeting Iraqi security forces killed at least four people in separate attacks.


Two suicide car bombs exploded outside the Interior Ministry in eastern Baghdad Thursday, killing at least two policemen and wounding five others, police Maj. Jabar Hassan said. Officials at nearby al-Kindi hospital said 15 people were injured in the blasts, part of the relentless wave of violence since the Jan. 30 elections.

Another car bomb targeting a police convoy exploded in Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of the capital, killing one Iraqi policeman and a civilian, the U.S. military said. Six police and 10 other civilians were also wounded.

Amid the violence, interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi extended the state of emergency, first announced nearly four months ago, for another 30 days until the end of March. The order remains in effect throughout the country, except in northern Kurdish-run areas.

The emergency decree includes a nighttime curfew and gives the government extra powers to make arrests without warrants and launch police and military operations when it deems necessary.

The latest reported American deaths brought the toll to 1,502 since the United States launched the war in Iraq in March 2003, according to the AP count.

The military said two U.S. troops died Wednesday in Baghdad of injuries suffered when a roadside bomb struck their vehicle. Another soldier was killed the same day in Babil province, part of an area known as the "Triangle of Death" because of the frequency of insurgent attacks on U.S. and Iraqi forces.

At least 1,140 Americans have died as a result of hostile action, according to the Defense Department. The figures include four military civilians.

Since May 1, 2003, when President Bush (news - web sites) declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 1,364 U.S. military members have died, according to the AP count. That includes at least 1,030 deaths resulting from hostile action, the military said.

The tally is based on Pentagon (news - web sites) records and AP reporting from Iraq.

The U.S. exit strategy is dependent on handing over responsibility for security to Iraq's fledgling army and police forces. Forming Iraq's first democratically elected coalition government is turning out to be a laborious process.

The car bombers in Baghdad were trailing a police convoy that was trying to enter the Interior Ministry, Hassan said. Iraqi security forces opened fire on the vehicles and disabled them before they could arrive at a main checkpoint, said Col. Adnan Abdul-Rahman, an Interior Ministry spokesman.

Iraqi forces also killed one Iraqi man during clashes with gunmen in the northern city of Mosul, army Capt. Sabah Yassin said. Two soldiers were injured.

Also in the north, insurgents blew up a gas pipeline that links Kirkuk to Dibis, about 20 miles away, said Col. Nozad Mohammad, a state oil security official in Kirkuk. Mohammad said the blast would cut gas production, but he could not say by how much.

Talks aimed at forging a new coalition government faltered Wednesday over Kurdish demands for more land and concerns that the dominant Shiite alliance seeks to establish an Islamic state, delaying the planned first meeting of parliament.

Shiite and Kurdish leaders, Iraq's new political powers, failed to reach agreement after two days of negotiations in the northern city of Irbil, with the clergy-backed candidate for prime minister, Ibrahim al-Jaafari, leaving with only half the deal he needed.

The Shiite-led United Iraqi Alliance, which has 140 seats in the 275-member National Assembly, hopes to win backing from the 75 seats held by Kurdish political parties so it can muster the required two-thirds majority to insure control of top posts in the new government.

Al-Jaafari indicated after the talks that the alliance was ready to accept a Kurdish demand that one of its leaders, Jalal Talabani, become president. However, he would not commit to other demands, including the expansion of Kurdish autonomous areas south to the oil-rich city of Kirkuk.

Kurdish leaders have demanded constitutional guarantees for their northern regions, including self-rule and reversal of the "Arabization" of Kirkuk and other northern areas. Saddam relocated Iraqi Arabs to the region in a bid to secure the oil fields there.

Politicians had hoped to convene the new parliament by Sunday. But Ali Faisal, of the Shiite Political Council, said the date was now postponed and that a new date had not been set.

"The blocs failed to reach an understanding over the formation of the government," said Faisal, whose council is part of the United Iraqi Alliance.

The Kurds, he added, were "the basis of the problem" in the negotiations.

"The Kurds are wary about al-Jaafari's nomination to head the government. They are concerned that a strict Islamic government might be formed," Faisal said. "Negotiations and dialogue are ongoing."

In another twist, alliance deputy and former Pentagon favorite Ahmad Chalabi was to meet Thursday with Allawi, whose party won 40 seats in the assembly. It was unclear why the meeting between the two rivals was taking place.

Both are secular Shiites opposed to making Iraq an Islamic state. Concerns over a possible theocracy are especially pertinent because the main task of the new assembly will be to write a constitution.

Elsewhere, Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s lead lawyer said Tuesday's shooting deaths of a judge and his lawyer son, both appointed to the Iraqi Special Tribunal to try the former Iraqi leader and his top henchmen, show the country remains too dangerous for such trials. The shootings marked the first time any legal staff working for the court have been killed.

"I can't imagine how the court would begin," Ziad al-Khasawneh told the AP in Tokyo. "The streets are burning, the judges are killed. ... The advocates and the judge, they need a quiet area to read, to study, to discuss. It is impossible to make these things this year, or after this year."


Iraqi soldiers stand guard in a street after car bombs exploded in Baghdad March 3, 2005. Two car bombs near Iraq (news - web sites)'s Interior Ministry killed at least five policemen and wounded several in violence that threatened to overshadow efforts to form a new government. (Thaier Sudani/Reuters)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/iraq_dc
Baghdad Car Bombs Kill at Least Five Policemen

1 hour, 34 minutes ago


By Elizabeth Piper

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two car bombs exploded near Iraq (news - web sites)'s Interior Ministry on Thursday, killing at least five policemen in what al Qaeda's local wing said was a twin suicide attack to try to assassinate the minister.

The group, led by Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, vowed to pursue Interior Minister Falah al-Naqib -- part of its relentless campaign of violence to bring down the U.S.-backed interim government and stall efforts to form a new cabinet.

"This blessed Thursday morning, two lions from the martyrs brigade set out and launched a heroic attack on the collaborationist Interior Ministry, targeting the interior minister," the Al Qaeda Organization in Iraq said on an Islamist Web site.

"But he escaped. However, if one arrow missed, there is an endless supply in the quiver ... Thank God, for there were many Crusaders with their vehicles, guards and policemen and the two operations hit them and killed and wounded dozens."

A police source said the car bombs exploded just outside the heavily guarded ministry in central Baghdad. At least five police were killed and several others wounded.

Across Iraq, suicide bombers and clashes between insurgents and the U.S. military added 10 to a death toll that climbs steadily every day, and in the north gunmen sabotaged power supplies -- underscoring the problems the new ministers face.


POLITICAL HORSE TRADING

Iraqi politicians are engaged in protracted horse-trading to fill top posts in the government, creating a new political landscape that has raised concern over sectarian tensions.

A Shi'ite alliance won a slim parliamentary majority in the Jan. 30 polls, gaining power after decades of Sunni Arab domination under Saddam Hussein (news - web sites). The alliance has chosen Ibrahim al-Jaafari as its candidate for prime minister. But interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi is bidding to keep his job.

The Kurds, who came second in the elections, are in a powerful negotiating position and are seen as kingmakers.

Iraqi officials said on Thursday talks would continue for several days.

But whatever its makeup, the new government will face the daunting task of tightening security against further attacks by mainly Sunni Arab insurgents angered over losing the privileges they enjoyed under Saddam.

Many Sunni Arabs boycotted the polls or were too afraid to vote, and the 20 percent Sunni Arab minority has little representation in Iraq's new parliament.

In fresh violence to hit Iraq's north, two Iraqis working for a construction equipment company that supplies American contractors were killed by insurgents in Kirkuk, police said.

Nearby in Tikrit, one Iraqi soldier was killed and six wounded by gunmen, and in Baquba a suicide bomber blew himself up near the local army headquarters, killing one civilian and wounding 14 people.

In Qaim, 310 miles west of Baghdad near the Syrian border, three people were killed, including a woman and child, in clashes between U.S. troops and insurgents, doctors said.

In Baghdad police discovered the bodies of three men who had been blindfolded and shot in the back of the head, a scene that is becoming increasingly common in Iraq.

Guerrillas also targeted energy infrastructure, blowing up a gas pipeline feeding Iraq's main power station on Thursday. The blast near Kirkuk forced two out of four turbines at the Baiji power station to shut, engineer Khaled al-Lami said.

Daily violence and killings across Iraq have fanned fears the country might not be able to close the chapter on the decades of oppression under Saddam.

Gunmen in Baghdad on Tuesday killed a judge working for the Iraqi special tribunal set up to try the leader and his top lieutenants.

Judge Barawiz Mahmoud and his son, a lawyer, were killed as they left their home in north Baghdad in the first assassination of a tribunal member.

The judge's killing came a day after the tribunal referred its first charges against defendants, saying it had enough evidence to put five former Baath party officials on trial, including Saddam's half brother Barzan Ibrahim al-Hassan al- Tikriti and former Deputy Prime Minister Taha Yasin Ramadan. (Additional reporting by Mariam Karouny in Baghdad and Sami Aboudi in Dubai)

Yup real success huh, this administration is going to start WWIII....


Doc

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http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/2005/n...50309-2202.html
U.S. Department of Defense
Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs)
News Release

On the Web:
http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/2005/n...50309-2202.html
Media contact: Army Public Affairs - (703) 692-2000 Public contact:
http://www.dod.mil/faq/comment.html
or +1 (703) 428-0711 +1

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No. 242-05
IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 9, 2005

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DoD Identifies Army Casualties
The Department of Defense announced today the death of two soldiers supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. They died March 7, in Ramadi, Iraq, when a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device detonated near their screening area. The two men were assigned to the Army’s 44th Engineer Battalion, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, Camp Howze, Korea.



The soldiers were:



Sgt. Andrew L. Bossert, 24, of Fountain City, Wis.,



Pfc. Michael W. Franklin, 22, of Coudersport, Pa.



For further information related to this release, contact Army Public Affairs at (703) 692-2000.

....and death marches on ....


Doc

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Links inside to all these stories....but we get Michael Jackson 24/7 instead or whatever scandal du jour can distract.....Nichols, etc.

03/13/05 KUNA: Iraqi police killed, three injured in Baghdad mortar attack
An Iraqi policeman was killed and three injured in a mortar attack at a checkpoint South of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, Iraqi police said.

03/13/05 AFP: Eleven Iraqis killed in attacks over past 48 hours
Eleven Iraqis were killed in rebel attacks in the past two days, Iraqi security sources said Sunday, as 12 corpses that had been rotting on a farm for a month were found by soldiers south of Baghdad.

03/13/05 AFP: More killed in violence around Iraq
Two Iraqis, including one policeman and the head engineer at the Baghdad airport, were killed in two attacks in Baghdad, an interior ministry source said Sunday.

03/13/05 AFP: Twelve corpses found south of Baghdad
The corpses of 12 Iraqis were found south of Baghdad in a treacherous belt of towns where rebels regularly attack Iraqi soldiers and Shiite pilgrims, a security source said

03/13/05 AFP: Iraq army hails arrest of Saudi would-be suicide bomber
The Iraqi army announced it had prevented a suicide bombing on a base near the northern oil centre of Kirkuk Sunday and arrested a Saudi national who had been preparing to carry it out.

03/13/05 AP: US convoy attacked on road to Abu Ghraib
west of Baghdad, on the road to Abu Ghraib, a US convoy was attacked on Saturday causing damage to at least one tank.

03/13/05 ndtv: Iraq oil pipelines attacked
Two suspected attacks on oil installations left pipelines ablaze in Iraq on Saturday. One blaze occurred between Samara and Fallujah to the east of the Iraqi capital...

03/13/05 post-trib: New Army gets old equipment
Outside of Tall Afar in Iraq, soldiers with the Indiana National Guard 113th Engineer Battalion were embarrassed by the slow-moving, out-of-date equipment they brought from Indiana.

03/13/05 StarsandStripes: Army sees rise in noncombat ailments
With more older troops on battlefield, Army sees rise in noncombat ailments...

03/13/05 iags: Iraq Pipeline Watch #216
Iraq Pipeline Watch #216. March 12 - attack on oil pipeline near Samarra.

03/13/05 AP: U.S. soldier was gunned down late Saturday in Mosul
In other violence, a U.S. soldier was gunned down late Saturday in a small arms fire attack in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, 225 miles northwest of Baghdad, the U.S. command said Sunday


03/13/05 TheDay: Gunmen Kill Again At Iraqi Funeral
In Mosul, gunmen killed three policemen and wounded a fourth at a funeral procession, the second time in as many days that mourners have been targeted in that northern city.

03/13/05 NYT: Key Iraq weapons plants looted
In the weeks after Baghdad fell in April 2003, looters systematically dismantled and removed tons of machinery from Saddam Hussein's most important weapons installations...

03/13/05 Reuters: Shiite-Kurdish talks to form Iraq government fail
Talks between Kurdish leaders and a Shiite bloc to form the next Iraqi government have collapsed three days before the country's first fully elected parliament meets, senior politicians said today.

03/13/05 Reuters: Bomb Kills Two U.S. Contractors in Iraq
An embassy spokesman said the contractors working for the Blackwater security company were headed for the southern town of Hilla when the bomb exploded as they passed by on Saturday.

03/13/05 AP: SoCal soldier killed in Iraq when bomb explodes near Humvee
Army Spc. Wade Michael Twyman was on patrol near Ramadi, Iraq, on March 4 when an explosive was detonated near the Humvee in which he was riding. He and three other soldiers were killed.

BRING THEM HOME


http://www.peacetakescourage.com/bringthemhome.html


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-t-

sky,

i think it is because we LET them avoid looking at the truth-

we've become the party they want us to be... we are the anti-soldier party-

we don't force them to be honest with themselves, much less the american people...

we must get back to compassion for ALL - soldiers and civilians alike- they are all pawns...

only THEN can we make those yellow-bellied murderous traitors face the music.


it makes me sick too.



-t-

panda,

did the music stop for you at any time during the flash? it doesn't for me... and what was the last photo you saw....


if you had problems viewing it, let me know- i'll tell my daughter- all of her flash animations are completely her own work- i only pitched in the money for her to buy her domain, which was her idea as well- "peace takes courage"- just want to make sure everybody knows how much her website is HERS- she's worked hard on it, and i'm proud of her... very proud


btw... the music is by 'the killers...' a new group my daughter introduced me to before they got big in the states- i really like them alot-

i too would like to see a comparison b/t stats in vietnam and now...


-t-

i updated "Bring Them Home"

i put a preloader at the begining and added music credits


Bring Them Home

The two guys from the 44th...That's my stepson's Bn. I had just read an email from him saying he felt like the pressure was off his guys a little, two new army batallions had been assigned to the 1st MEF. I slid on over to icasualties.org and saw this shit and thought "Jesus, Ehren, head down ass down, come home in one fuckin' piece, PLEASE, God...no heroics, kid." And I had been hoping for an email from him, four soldiers had been killed in Ramadi a coupla days earlier and they hadn't been IDed yet. He's my stepson, and God knows I love him like he's my own, but he's a dumb ass sometimes. Thinks DU is good shit, would eat it for breakfast with milk and sugar if they told him to. He knows my history, and my position on war generally, this one specifically. It...has..strained our relationship...he enlisted to win his father's approval. It didn't work, his dad still calls him a "little faggot". He also says morale is l-o-w and a half, guys who are not prone to philosophy are asking why the hell they are there, and saying we are notnotnot gonna win this. The grunts can always smell it first. I know.

Good news: My niece's boyfriend is coming home from Iraq the day after tomorrow.

Bad news: The Marines are sending him back to Iraq in six months.