Originally Posted by
lindsay
i just hope that this war will be over soon. i met kids that lost their father in iraq and it broke my heart to see them struggle,trying to pick up the pieces knowing that their dad will never be there for them again.
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Â* Â* Â*It's sad but those are the realities that they have to face. Don't discount the relatives & friends of the 26,500 wounded servicemen also. It is regretfully painful this time of the year too. It really drives home the finality of that missing loved one. There is a growing movement in your adoptive country organized by the immediate relatives & friendsÂ* of the US casualties in Iraq. It is gaining momentum as we speak. They are looking for answers to unanswered questions & hopefully, an accountability for those who made the decision to invade Iraq. So far, there are no replies yet. They are facing a blank wall of indifference from the Bush administration. And come to think of it, this invasion was all based on lies. The real reason for this intrusion was OIL. AmeriKanCorporate greed at it's best. Here's a news item from the Washington Post...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...120200633.html
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10 Marines Killed in Fallujah Blast
By Jonathan Finer and Hasan Shammeri
Washington Post Foreign Service
Saturday, December 3, 2005; 10:09 AM
BAGHDAD, Dec. 3 -- Insurgents ambushed a joint patrol of U.S. and Iraqi forces north of Baghdad Saturday morning, killing 11 Iraqi soldiers a day after the U.S. military reported the deaths of 10 Marines in a bomb attack on their foot patrol outside Fallujah.
The ambush Saturday in Udhaim, 80 miles north of Baghdad, also wounded six Iraqis, some of them severely, according to Maj. Anwar Kadhim Jafari, an intelligence officer from the Iraqi Army's 1st Battalion. No American casualties were reported in the incident.
The attack began when a roadside bomb was detonated near a convoy of the joint patrol. When the Iraqis left their vehicles to search the area, gunmen opened fire on them, Jafari said. After the attack, the insurgents set fire to four Iraqi Army vehicles and commandeered two others, he said.
On Friday, the U.S. military reported that 10 Marines died Thursday when a makeshift bomb blasted their foot patrol outside the western city of Fallujah. It was the deadliest attack on U.S. forces in almost four months.
Eleven other Marines were wounded by the explosion, which came from a device made up of several large artillery shells, the military said. Seven of the injured Marines returned to duty.
Several Fallujah residents said the only large explosion in the city Thursday was a nighttime attack on a U.S. convoy near a cement factory, east of downtown. It appeared to be a car bomb, according to Abdul Karim Salah, a factory worker on the night shift who said he witnessed the explosion. The military later denied that an attack took place near the factory but declined to provide any further details about the incident in which the Marines were killed.
In other developments, the military reported Saturday that U.S. and Iraqi forces captured 18 suspected insurgents in north-central Iraq on Thursday. Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division caught two men who were injured while trying to emplace a roadside bomb that exploded prematurely near Daquq, a statement said. One of the men later died of his wounds at a local hospital. A search of their vehicle turned up a second makeshift bomb, which was destroyed by an ordnance disposal team, the statement said.
Twelve other suspected insurgents were detained by Iraqi soldiers near Muqdadiyah and Baqubah, and U.S. troops captured four more near Balad after catching them with bomb-detonating devices, the statement said.
The military also reported that a 67-year-old male security detainee died in custody Friday at a U.S. military hospital. No cause of death or other details about the detainee were immediately disclosed.
A little more than a year ago, thousands of U.S. and Iraqi troops leveled much of Fallujah -- which had become Iraq's main insurgent stronghold -- in the largest offensive since the 2003 invasion. During two weeks of fighting, they established a strict cordon around the city, 35 miles west of Baghdad, establishing four heavily guarded entry points equipped with metal detectors and bomb-sniffing dogs.
Following the assault, according to local politicians and military commanders, Fallujah had gradually become one of the safest and most stable cities in Anbar province, which spans the vast desert west of Baghdad to the Syrian border and is considered the heartland of the country's Sunni Arab-led insurgency. In August, 14 Marines were killed by a roadside bomb that tore apart their armored personnel carrier in the Anbar city of Haditha, but Fallujah has experienced little heavy fighting and few large-scale attacks in recent months.
The city's police force, disbanded before the offensive last year, has returned to duty and numbers about 1,200, local officials said. A pair of Iraqi army battalions now patrol much of the northern half of the city, together with a single battalion of U.S. Marines. And while turnout in Anbar for Iraq's October constitutional referendum was only about 40 percent, it topped 90 percent in Fallujah, a city of about 250,000.
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