Reuters is reporting that 5 soldiers and 2 Iraqi police officers were killed in a suicide bombing in Mosul today. You sure wouldn’t know about it watching the news. Instead they are on the 100% coverage of a high speed chase in California.
On the same day that John McCain and Dick Cheney are there humping each other because they think this war was the best damn thing in the world. Maybe McCain and Cheney will meet up in the Baghdad airport later, to celebrate the way all good Republicans do
Another day of “progress” in Iraq. Thank you John McCain and George Bush.
I’m sure the White House will spin this as being progress: Fourteen US soldiers have been killed in two days of fighting, the military announced on Thursday, as US-led troops continued to press simultaneous offensives in and around Baghdad. The news came hours after a suicide bomber exploded an oil tanker south of Iraq’s oil-rich […]
Which brings the monthly toll to 42. This is a little better than last month, but of course that is due in a large part to Iraqi’s targeting each other again. The surge is also now complete. Ironically it is complete with an additional “28,500 troops” in Iraq. Wasn’t it supposed to be 21,500? That’s […]
April has been a deadly month for our troops and this latest tally pushes the number of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq past 100: Five U.S. troops were killed in separate attacks in the capital this weekend, including three in a single roadside bombing, the military said Monday, pushing the death toll past 100 in […]
Today the number of soldiers killed in Iraq reached 3,308, including 3 soldiers killed today. Also under the radar is the U.K.’s decision to drop the phrase “war on terror”: The British government has stopped using the phrase “war on terror” to refer to the struggle against political and religious violence, according to a Cabinet […]
But as Laura Bush, the Ice Queen, would say; “It’s just that one bomb a day”. At least nine U.S. soldiers were killed Monday in a pair of deadly attacks north of Baghdad, U.S. military statements released Tuesday said. “Six Task Force Lightning soldiers died as a result of injuries sustained following an explosion near […]
Five more soldiers were killed in Iraq today, bringing the October’s toll to 96 soldiers lost. The last time we had this many soldiers killed in Iraq in one month was last October, and that number is certain to go higher. Sidney Blumenthal also has an interesting piece up at Salon regarding Bush and the […]