BREAKING: 130 U.S. troops killed in Iraq today

$2.49 here today.

....bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah a


This is sooo funny. Fighting in 7 citites and the masses believing Fox and CNN that only 20 people died.

the person who started this thread clearly said "US TROOPS" for clicks because it only says 130 about Iraqis...

"News agencies reported that at least 64 Iraqis died in the violence Tuesday, bringing the death toll in the last three days to more than 130 Iraqis. At least 18 Americans had been reported killed over the three days before the attack at Ramadi."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...-2004Apr6.html

I used to think you were a smart man, but you've quickly revealed your ignorance. America is far from being able to police one fucking country like Iraq or Vietnam, let alone the entire world. The neo con plan of world domination is going to make the American Empire fall about 20 times faster than the British Empire. You're already spreading yourself to thin in Afghanistan. There will be another civil war in the US before George W. becomes king of the planet and all it's resources. Tell those fools to try to come get our water, I've got three words for them...

Right or wrong, the person who started this thread was just quoting the Skynews article.

FUCKING PERFECT

true dat

12 soldiers were killed today

When I saw your name, I thought this was going to be fiction, but now I am doubl guessing.

So far, they have confirmed 20 dead soldiers

LOL... another fucking racist....

By the way, read my post : " innocent soldiers" .... I do have respect for the men there ( on both sides please you...), but not for the ones that put them there...

Keep your crayon,... I know one place where you can put it

new official count 636. that brings the average up to 45.4 per month.

Highly sophisticated? yet many have died
fighting. I can say they're still keeping their faith.

pathetic isn't it

but hey the troops do have the latest in weaponary and the iraqi's have outdated artillery so it's possible to believe this if you're naive or just plain dumb...i don't know why i post in these threads i should just read and lmao

30mintues it was 12 so y'all just might get the true number before the nite is over

It's all BS.... War is over...

good work, neo-cons

Reaping the Whirlwind
Iraq on the Brink of Anarchy
By ROBERT FISK
The Independent

Fallujah, Iraq.

Not content with surrounding the largest Sunni city west of Baghdad with tanks, armoured personnel carriers and heavy machine guns, US forces used Apache helicopters to attack the Shia Muslim slums of Shoula yesterday, sent dozens of their main battle tanks into the hovels of Sadr City and then slapped an arrest warrant on the Shia cleric Muqtada Sadr--who must dearly have wanted the United States to do just that.

Gun battles in Sadr City overnight had cost the lives of up to 40 Iraqis and at least eight Americans, but in the sewage-damp streets yesterday, they were handing out letters, allegedly written by the Sunni townspeople of Fallujah, newly surrounded by 1,200 marines. "We support you, our brothers, in your struggle," the letters said. If they are authentic, it should be enough to make the US proconsul, Paul Bremer, wonder if he can ever extricate Washington from Iraq. The British took three years to turn both the Sunnis and the Shias into their enemies in 1920. The Americans are achieving it in just under a year.

Anarchy has been a condition of our occupation from the very first days when we let the looters and arsonists destroy Iraq's infrastructure and history. But that lawlessness is now coming back to haunt us. Anarchy is what we are now being plunged into in Iraq, among a people with whom we share no common language, no common religion and no common culture.

Officially, Mr Bremer and his president are standing tall, claiming they will not "tolerate" violence and those who oppose democracy, but occupation officials--in anticipation of a far more violent insurrection--have been privately discussing the legalities of martial law. And although Mr Bremer and President George Bush are publicly insisting that the notional "handover" of Iraq's "sovereignty" will still take place on 30 June, legal experts attached to the American-appointed Iraqi Governing Council have also been considering a delay of further months. Many Iraqis are now asking if the Americans want disaster in Iraq. Surely not, but yesterday's violence told its own story of blundering military operations and political provocations that will undoubtedly add to the support for the charmless and provocative Shia cleric whom Mr Bremer now wants to lock up--allegedly for plotting the murder of a pro-Western Shia cleric, Abdul-Majid el-Khoi. Sadr was surrounded by his militiamen yesterday, in a mosque in Kufa from where he issues regular denunciations of the occupation.

Dan Senor, a spokesman for the occupying power, would not tell anyone exactly what the evidence against Sadr was--even though it has supposedly existed since an Iraqi judge issued the warrant some months ago.

The US military response to the atrocities committed against four American mercenaries in Fallujah last week has been to surround the entire city and to announce the cutting off of the neighbouring international highway link between Baghdad, Amman and Damascus--thus bringing to a halt almost all economic trade between Iraq and its two western neighbours.

What good this will do "new" Iraq is anyone's guess. Vast concrete walls have been lowered across the road and military vehicles have been used to chase away civilians trying to bypass them. A prolonged series of Israeli-style house raids are now apparently planned for the people of Fallujah to seek out the gunmen who first attacked the four Americans. The corpses were stripped, mutilated and hanged.

The helicopter attacks in Shoula--by ghastly coincidence the very same Shoula suburb in which civilians were slaughtered by an American aircraft during last year's invasion--looked like a copy of every Israeli raid on the West Bank and Gaza. Indeed, Iraqis are well aware that the US military asked for--and received--Israel's "rules of engagement" from Ariel Sharon's government.

America's losses over the past 48 hours--at least 12 soldiers killed and many wounded--come nowhere near the number of Iraqi victims over the same period.

US forces in Sadr City believe they were fighting up to 500 militia men from Sadr's black-uniformed Army of Mehdi early yesterday. Even so, using Apache helicopters in a heavily populated district to hunt for gunmen raises new questions about the rules to which occupation troops are supposed to adhere.

The British fared less badly in Basra, Iraq's second city, where they avoided violence with militiamen who had taken over the town hall and wounded no one in a brief gun battle. Spanish troops were again involved in shooting with militiamen in Najaf. The grim truth, however, is that the occupying powers are now facing insurrection of various strengths in almost every big city in Iraq.

Yet they are still not confronting that truth. For the past nine nights, for example, the main US base close to Baghdad airport--and the area around the terminals--has come under mortar fire.

But the occupying powers have kept this secret. "Things are getting very bad and they're going to get worse," a special forces officer said close to the airport yesterday. "But no one is saying that--either because they don't know or because they don't want you to know."

As for Sadr, he will, no doubt, try to surround himself with squads of gunmen and supporters in the hope that the Americans will not dare to shoot their way in to him.

Or he will go underground and we'll have another "enemy of democracy" to bestialise in the approach to the American elections. Or--much more serious perhaps--his capture may unleash far more violence from his supporters.

And all this because Mr Bremer decided to ban Sadr's trashy 10,000-circulation weekly newspaper for "inciting violence."

why don't you go fight instead of run your mouth asshole

Hell.. unbelievable! We have a "dispute" over "alledged" casualties next!

If anyone seriously believes either what the Pentagon or other US government "agencies" - ie FOX - they need to visit a doctor sometime soon.

Time will tell what the "real" cost of lives are, - when it becomes convenient to release this. Tho, that won't come from either "side" too soon unless it is politically "useful"!

Muqtada al-Sadr has no formal religious standing to interpret the Koran, and relies for religious authority on an Iran-based Iraqi exiled cleric, Ayatollah Kazem al-Haeri.

This guy is a thug with a well armed militia, trying to carve out his own empire in iraq. When the united states cuts off his balls, and they will. A few other "families" will try a power grab. I would doubt as violent as this is, though we will see.

It would be nice to drill some understanding into some of you and a whole bunch of other ignorant fools what some of these self proclaimed "clerics" are really about. I am so sick of everyone generalizing this fuck and these other "families" with political agendas as the average iraqi.

Country? No, bullshit religious beliefs. All of it is. Muslim or otherwise. Religion and money are the two sources of fucking evil. Dont deny it.

Blow it out your ass, you fucking sympathizer.

Let our soldiers shoot those scum bags without any restrictions and you will see how this war ends real quick

Thank you, I believe the same way, fuck the political correctness and get the job done already.
If your concerned about the amounts of deaths of US servicemen , join the crowd, I'm a vet myself, but when you think how many servicemen we loose each year without a war, the number is very small!

In 1995 there were 1,040 active military deaths in the US military, was there a war going on?
250 were self inflicted!

638 deaths so far in the Iraq war

September 11th attack
2996 deaths

Can you spell "quagmire"? I knew you could.

First off it really pisses me off when the Rush, Hannity and O'Reilly Sheep call everyone who is not for Bush's Policies liberals. I am not a liberal, I want small government, small taxes. We had no business going into Iraq, it had nothing do to on the war on terror . How can you say , well more people die in LA . These are our brothers, uncle ,cousins and Fathers dying for a lie. The longer this goes on ,I dont think it was as bad in Iraq as they told us. Things get shitty people rise up , we werent going in to help the Iraqi freedom fighters. There were none , people said they couldnt rise up they were so afraid of Saddam. I believed that once I dont believe now because it seems they have no problem rising up against the strongest army in the world.

You believe Iraq was responsable for 9/11 ...

It is just sad.
Somany dumb motherfuckerrs out ther.
To bad they don't know the meaning
of the word "propaganda"

And I assume u got those numbers of CNN's official website.

They are 100% acuare!

Have a nice day and you stupid, sad little man.

It's the "You're with us or you're against us" schoolyard thing they are still stuck on. It's black or white to them which only highlights thier ignorance.

This is the funniest thing i've read today !!!

Move to Iraq...give us the scoop once you are there.

Another pathetic sympathizer...

you're really missing a lot, at least one idiot says that a week on GFY!

How many wars have you been in panzie?....you are the pathetic little man.

He has made an interesting point. Nice comeback though.

One, and that is ENOUGH!
SO u don't know shit, stop talking shit from ur chair fat boy!

Yep, I'm an idiot. Couldn't have said it better myself.

Cheers to all us GFY idiots!



PS - How much did your sig sell for this month Mr. Genius Man?

Answer the question I posed ,they didnt fight against Saddam but they are fighting against us why. Think, I know it will hurt a little bit.

To put this in perspective, no one dies in battle when there are no wars.

Are Americans dying in Iraq to preserve my freedom?

Or are Americans dying in Iraq so that CEOs and shareholders of defense and construction contractors -- read: all those present at Bush/Cheney poker night -- can stuff their bank accounts for the next 50 years?

Insanely good these days and for the next 50 years. There's a bright side: lots more trust fund girls in the future...

Well that settles it!

Next we invade our highways!

Here comes another Saddam

LIBERATE THEM!

you should get your facts straight before you post bullshit like this

sad indeed.

I don't know how this particular story will pan out, but it's remarkable how many people still apparently trust the mainstream media. Yet everything which has since emerged about 911 and Iraq was reported (and hahahahahahahahaed) long ago in the "underground" media (a description which these days seems to be applied to almost anyone who publishes "inconvenient" news). There could be no way that the mainstream media didn't have the same information (if all else failed, they could have surfed the 'Net): they simply chose to ignore it until it couldn't be ignored any longer.

Again to stress that the point isn't the eventual outcome of this story, but that despite everything we still automatically trust CNN and the like more than other sources.

Not that there is anything remotely underground about Sky. For those not familiar with the name, it is owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, along with The Times of London, The New York Post, and a whole raft of other media companies, including... Fox.

Interesting thread - sure helps when you want to play "Spot the Sabre Rattling Wannabe"

BS

Saddam Hussein was a dictator. He MURDERED POLITICAL RIVALS, he murdered alot of INNOCENT people in his own country and left them in MASS GRAVES. DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT THAT MEANS? There were many factions in iraq during saddam's reign. Do you not understand where the people who opposed him ended up at?

The people "rising up" are not normal iraqi citizens. THEY ARE MILITIA, CONTROLLED BY BRUTAL THUGS, there modern day mob families. This is not hidden people, do a little research before you start spouting BS. I just posted about this subject a little while go in this thread.

Iraq under the rule of saddam hussein had alot to do with terrorism. From him paying 10k per suicide bomber to his government showing al-Qaeda how to make sophisticated truck bombs. Which if you remember back in '98 toppled a few embassy's in africa.

They hate the US even more because the US is a foreign power. The Iraqis haven't forgotten who supported Saddam. And they don't like anyone who's not a Muslim. It's complicated to understand if you haven't been in the ME. Plenty of two-faced people.

Bush thought that it could've all been done easily and they where even prepared to go after other countries but thankfully the problems in Iraq seems to be changing there minds.

Besides do you think Iraqis don't hear about Bush and everything he's doing to restrict freedom in the US? Don't you think that they see how the US is friends with the dictatorial regimes in Kuwait and Egypt? So they know the US is not in Iraq for democracy.

Very sad for the soldiers and their families

I've seen a doc-umen-tary (banned word?) about those people "rising up" and many of them looked like normal iraqi citizens to me.

Do you understand that there's ethnic cleansing in Sudan as we speak? Do you understand that Kim Jong Il is doing things that Saddam wouldn't even come close to doing? So just what exactly are you trying to come to? That Saddam was not nice?

Saddam paid the families of suicide bombers who get there homes destroyed. I don't see how you can complain about that.
Really he showed Al-Qaeda how to make bombs? I think they have enough CIA training to know how to do that.

or even "Spot the Pious Self-Righteous Hypocrite"