Posted on 09/30/2004 8:25:04 AM PDT by Happy2BMe
The pic of Saddam and the burning WTC at 19 is a great one to save, for showing to lilly-livered 'rats.
Savages.
WHEN WHEN WHEN...
Will the IRAQI PEOPLE STAND UP FOR THEMSELVES???
And start fighting back...for THEIR OWN COUNTRY>>>??
We have lead them to the edge of freedom, but after several generations of Saddam have they FORGOTTEN FREEDOM?
It is time for them to stand up for their own children!
G
Matthew 2:18
"A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more."
[2:18 Jer. 31:15]
just exactly WHAT will it take for the Iraqi people to start killing all the terrorists and stop helping them???
Hey, who's the dumbass, I lived it saw it, level a few domes to start with, they who hate us will never be with us.
That's like saying why don't you do something about the terrorists in the US. They are TRYING! Yes, there are those who see them planting bombs and do nothing, but the ones who the bombs kill are not responsible for that. I read on the Iraqi blogs the other day that a group of people saw someone planting a bomb and they went after him, captured him, and took him to the US Military base. The good guys have to see them in order to do something.
For the same reason we have not been able to rid our own society of violent criminals, like MS-18 Mara Salvatrucha, or Crips or Bloods, which gun down (in the case of C and B, fellow Americans &) many people, year in and year out, without a stop being put to it. Probably in higher numbers nationally than those being killed in Iraq.
Your screen name indicates we should lie down and take our medicine and be happy about it, you've been shot at before?
That's Ok, I understand...
Three Car Bombs Near U.S. Convoy in Baghdad Kill Dozens
By TERENCE NEILAN and MARIA NEWMAN
Published: September 30, 2004
hree car bombs were set off near an American military convoy in western Baghdad today, killing more than three dozen people and wounding scores, hospital officials told news agencies.
Ten American soldiers were wounded in the attack, the military said in a statement from Baghdad. Eight were treated for minor wounds and two had more serious injuries that required evacuation to a medical facility, the statement said.
The American military statement acknowledged that there were many Iraqi casualties but gave no further details.
Residents told the news agency that a ceremony to open a new water and sewage plant was taking place when the attack occurred.
Officials at the Yarmouk hospital told Reuters that they were inundated with casualties and had taken in at least 42 dead. They said about 140 people were wounded, most of them children hit by shrapnel.
The bombs caused the largest death toll of children in any insurgent attack since the conflict began 17 months ago, and it came on the last day of a particularly bloody month during the war. Today, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld said in a radio interview that the violence in Iraq is "getting worse," and would probably continue until elections in that country scheduled for January.
"We do expect that the incidents of violence in both Afghanistan and Iraq between now and the elections will very likely increase and that these dead-enders will try to see if they can prevent it from happening," he said in the interview, according to a transcript released by his office.
Earlier today, an American soldier was killed and three others were wounded when a roadside bomb exploded at a checkpoint, also in western Baghdad, the military said.
Two Iraqi policemen were also reported killed, and 10 Iraqis wounded.
In an early-morning raid on Falluja, a Sunni Muslim stronghold west of the capital, American forces raided what the United States military said was a successful strike on a known safe house used by the Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. At least four Iraqis were reported dead.
"Significant secondary explosions were observed during the impact indicating a large cache of illegal ordinance was stored in the safe house," a military statement said. Explosions continued in the northeastern side of the city for hours, The A.P. reported.
In the northern city of Talafar, a car bomb aimed at the police chief killed at least 4 people and wounded 16, Iraqi and American officials said, The Associated Press reported. A police officer speaking on condition of anonymity said the police chief, whose name was only given as Colonel Ismail, escaped from the assassination attempt.
Also today, the Arab satellite station Al-Jazeera showed footage of what it said were 10 new hostages seized by militants in Iraq. Al-Jazeera said the 10 — 6 Iraqis, 2 Lebanese and 2 Indonesians, both women — were taken by The Islamic Army in Iraq. The group claimed responsibility for seizing two French journalists last month.
The footage showed three of the hostages, who were not identified, and two masked gunmen pointing weapons at them. There was no mention of demands or where the hostages were abducted.
Al-Jazeera said the 10 were employees of an electricity company.
A Lebanese Foreign Ministry official, speaking on condition of anonymity, later told The A.P. that two Lebanese citizens had been seized in Iraq, but it was not immediately clear if they were the same as those shown by Al-Jazeera.
The Frenchmen, Christian Chesnot and Georges Malbrunot, disappeared Aug. 20 during a trip to Najaf, in southern Iraq. The Islamic Army in Iraq demanded that France revoke a new law banning Islamic head scarves from state schools.
Yes, the reluctance of Iraqi people to turn in insurgents is the heart of their current problem. Perhaps some do so, but we'll never hear about it on the news. And at any rate, they don't turn in enough of them to make Iraq peaceful. Their silence is incomprehensible to me, but after generations of Islam and decades of Saddam, speaking up doesn't seem to be part of their personal characteristics.
All these grisly deaths of innocents will perhaps make them angry enough to stand up against the insurgents. Perhaps. But "Islam is a religion of peace" may translate to "fatalistic Muslims don't stand up for themselves."
They did the same thing in Nicaragua. Ran away from helping the people in rural Nicaragua, once their soulmates, the Sandinistas, were turned from power.
You see, their humanitarian compassion is all political, and nothing more. They could not care less for the people they are "protecting" as they "shield" or deliver water to, or work clinics or teach in schools.
As long as a certain regime is standing up to American Freedom, you can be sure they will fly in there to "help the people" in all kinds of cockamamie progams.
They are thinking the next place to go to. Probably as human shields along the DMZ, at the invite of Kim Jong il. So be it, they can deal with the consequences.
Lt. Gen. Thomas F. Metz, right, commander of Multinational Corps Iraq, addresses U.S. Army 1st Cavalry soldiers after award ceremonies at Camp Eagle, near the Sadr City section of Baghdad, Iraq Thursday, Sept. 30, 2004. Two Silver Stars and other awards were presented to soldiers who serve in the Sadr City area. (AP Photo/Fisnik Abrashi)
U.S. Army 1st Cavalry Col. Robert Abrams presents a Purple Heart medal during ceremonies at Camp Eagle, near the Sadr City section of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Sept. 30, 2004. Two Silver Stars and other awards were presented to soldiers who serve in the Sadr City area. (AP Photo/Fisnik Abrashi)
Hint: They are not sleeping.
By The Associated Press
_ Three bombs exploded at a west Baghdad neighborhood ceremony celebrating the opening of a new sewage system, killing 35 children and seven adults, officials said. It was the largest death toll of children in any insurgent attack. Ten American soldiers were among the scores wounded.
_ A suicide car bomber killed a U.S. soldier and two Iraqis in the Abu Ghraib area outside of Baghdad. The bomb targeted a compound housing the mayor's office, a police station and other buildings, police said.
_ In the northern city of Tal Afar, a car bomb targeting the police chief killed at least four people, officials said. The police chief reportedly escaped the assassination attempt.
_ Insurgents rocketed a logistical support area for coalition forces on the outskirts of Baghdad, killing one soldier and wounding seven, the military said. No further details was disclosed — including whether the soldier was American.
_ The United States attacked a suspected terrorist safehouse in Fallujah, killing at least four Iraqis, including two women and one child, according to a doctor in the city.
_ The chief bodyguard of the mayor of Kirkuk, a northern Iraq city, was shot and killed.
_ The Arabic news network Al-Jazeera showed video of 10 new hostages seized by militants. Al-Jazeera said the 10 — six Iraqis, two Lebanese and two Indonesian women — were taken by The Islamic Army in Iraq. The group has claimed responsibility for seizing two French journalists last month.
_ British Prime Minister Tony Blair ruled out negotiating with kidnappers of British hostage Kenneth Bigley but said his government would do what it could to aid his release.
_ Blair won the backing of his Labour Party to keep British troops in Iraq, avoiding a humiliating defeat that would have undermined his premiership.
_ Iraq's interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, in London, insisted his country's elections will go ahead as scheduled next year, despite the ongoing violence.
_ Despite the transfer of sovereignty to an interim government, the majority of Iraqis regard their country as being under foreign occupation, the top U.N. envoy to Iraq, Ashraf Jehangir Qazi, said on a visit to Pakistan.
Unspeakabe evil. My heart breaks for the Iraqi people. If we fail them their prospects for freedom are nil. They can either wish for a return to the brutality of Saddam or settle for the brutality of the foreign terrorists in their midst. The terrorists are the dregs of humanity who crawl out from under rocks in any situation when there is a chance to kill and maim and destroy. I wonder how many of them are even political. I think most of them are just serial killers. They are barely one step up from cannibals.
WE HAVE TO WIN. We have to. And we will. But we cannot have a wavering leader like Kerry. The terrorists have to know we will always do whatever it takes to wipe them off the face of the earth. Never give in. Never give in. Never. Never. Never.
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