News & Politics - 5 Britons kidnapped; 10 GIs die in Iraq

Lexis · 05-30-2007, 01:19 AM

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Gunmen in police uniforms and driving vehicles used by security forces kidnapped five Britons from an Iraqi Finance Ministry office Tuesday, and a senior Iraqi official said the radical Shiite Mahdi Army militia was suspected.
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Compounding the fresh evidence of chaos in
Iraq, the U.S. military announced that a total of 10 American soldiers were killed in roadside bombings and a helicopter crash on Memorial Day, making May — at 113 fatalities — the third deadliest month of the war.

Across the country Tuesday, police and morgue officials contacted by The Associated Press reported a total of at least 120 people killed or found dead. All of the officials refused to allow use of their names fearing they could be targeted by militants.

The Finance Ministry kidnappings, if the work of the Mahdi Army as asserted by Iraqi officials, could be retaliation for the killing by British forces last week of the militia's commander in Basra.

The raid also was reminiscent of an attack by the Shiite militiamen, dressed as Interior Ministry commandos, who stormed a Higher Education Ministry office Nov. 14 and snatched away as many as 200 people. Dozens of those kidnap victims were never been found.

The Mahdi Army, which is deeply embedded in the Iraqi security forces, also was believed looking for a way to avenge the recent killing by U.S. forces of a top operative. He was said to have been the author of an attack in the holy city of Karbala in January in which gunmen — speaking English, wearing U.S. military uniforms and carrying American weapons — abducted four U.S. soldiers and then shot them to death.

5 Britons kidnapped; 10 GIs die in Iraq - Yahoo! News

Just another day in the mess that is Iraq. Seriously. Does anyone really think this is going well?

jerkstore · 05-30-2007, 09:21 AM

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5 Britons kidnapped; 10 GIs die in Iraq - Yahoo! News

Just another day in the mess that is Iraq. Seriously. Does anyone really think this is going well?

Why do you hate America? You must be one of them islamacist, dhimmi appeasers! Give Bush's surge time to work!

Seriously, this war is shaping up to be much worse than Vietnam, and I can't see a good solution no matter what we do.

***Jerry D*** · 05-31-2007, 10:10 AM

Every day, when I read about more deaths and/or kidnappings in Iraq, it both saddens and incenses me. I’m saddened by the loss of life, and by the thought of all the families who’ve lost, and who will be losing, someone they love, and I’m also saddened for the people left behind. Parents who’ve lost a son or daughter. Siblings that have lost a brother or sister. Spouses that have lost a husband or wife. Children who’ve lost a parent. All the lives that are shattered forever. All the service people who’ve been wounded, maimed, or emotionally scarred. My heart breaks for all these people, and my heart breaks for this country.

I’m incensed by the policies of the Bush Administration, and the callous disregard they have for human life. This surge is not going to work, and more lives are going to be squandered because Bush and Co. won’t admit they made a mistake.

What have we accomplished in Iraq? Nothing. We invaded a sovereign nation with no provocation and under false pretexts, and we destabilized an entire country, and now our troops are sitting ducks as sectarian factions fight it out in a civil war, and now we, and our allies, are targets for terrorist savages. We also played right into the hands of everyone that hates this country and all that it stands for, and we squandered all the good will that we had garnered after 9/11.

I love my country and I was proud to serve it, but what the Bush Administration has perpetrated in Iraq is wrong, and it’s criminal. In this life or the next, I hope that the people that led us into this horrible quagmire get what’s coming to them.

jerkstore · 06-01-2007, 08:03 AM

Well said, Jerry. Bush's little adventure had ruined this country.

welshgirlyUK · 06-02-2007, 03:03 AM

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Why do you hate America? You must be one of them islamacist, dhimmi appeasers! Give Bush's surge time to work!

Where do you get that Lexis hates America from that?

jerkstore · 06-02-2007, 06:01 AM

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Where do you get that Lexis hates America from that?

It was pure sarcasm. For the last 4 years I've had to listen to idiots spout off on how anyone who questions Shrub's leadership/goals/competency/etc. is a traitor to the USA.

welshgirlyUK · 06-02-2007, 08:39 AM

Oh i see, sorry.


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