One Soldier Killed In Attack (Iraq)

Centcom ^ | 08-27-03

[Brian S]

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	August 27, 2003 Release Number: 03-08-57 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ONE SOLDIER KILLED IN ATTACK BAGHDAD, Iraq – One 205th Military Intelligence Brigade soldier was killed in an attack on a military convoy in Baghdad at approximately 7:45 a.m. on Aug. 27. The soldier’s name is being withheld pending notification of next-of-kin.

[Mr. Silverback]

How many children are being tortured in the Congo now? Please don't use the "humanitarian" argument unless you are willing to police the world....and please don't fall back into the "they had WMD mode" becaue that *isn't* the argument you are making now.

I have two words for you:

SALMAN PAK

[arete]

An American soldier has died for freedom.

Ahh yes, I see now. Thank you for the enlightenment.

Richard W.

[Mr. Silverback]

That was a problem the Iraqi people's put up with, gutless and spinless as they were/are, their problem to solve, not worth

An uprising would have merely been a creative way to committ suicide, we saw that in 1991. If we had to rise up against our government, we'd have a couple of million firearms to do it with. What were the Irais supposed to use on those tanks, toilet brushes?

one American Soldier or Marine, not one. Blackbird.

Sounds like the crap the congressional Dems used to say about supporting freedom in Central America.

[BlackbirdSST]

What were the Irais supposed to use on those tanks, toilet brushes?

Get with current event's will you. The Iraqi's are armed better than we are. They have been for some time now, but don't let the facts get in your way. Blackbird.

[Mr. Silverback]

You're not dealing with higher level thinkers here, ya know.

Well then, let us have some of that juicy wisdom of yours. Finish one or more of the following sentences and show us the boffo supra-genius reasoning that lead you to it:

1. Even though Iraq harbored, trained and funded terroists, it was not a legitimate target because...

2. We should not be fighting the war on terror at all because...

3. Fewer than 500 total casualties in a war that started with the slaughter of 3,000 noncombatants on our home soil is a huge problem because...

4. If we leave terrorist states up and running, I foresse the next major terroist attack will be prevented by...

5. The military record and/or golf schedule of major adminstration officials has bearing on the prosecution of this war because...

[Gringo1]

Or Bill Clinton...who actually RAN from it.

[BlackbirdSST]

Wrong. Some people have the ability to see big picture, others do not.

I couldn't agree more. I suppose you in your infinite wisdom have cornered the market on "the big picture"? Come back to me in 10-20 years or more when we're still stuck in that s#ithole, and explain the big picture to me then. Perhaps you should check your emotions at the door! Blackbird.

[top of the world ma]

_You're not dealing with higher level thinkers here, ya know._

"What good fortunes for governments that people do not think."

-Adolf Hitler

[verity]

We all need to simply ignore 'arete'. He is cruising for an argument!

[Dead Dog]

Leaders who have listend to crybabys in the past are the reason 9-11 happend.

Who's side are you on?

[Coop]

I suppose you in your infinite wisdom have cornered the market on "the big picture"? Come back to me in 10-20 years or more when we're still stuck in that s#ithole, and explain the big picture to me then. Perhaps you should check your emotions at the door! Blackbird.

Cornered? Hardly. But I am able to recognize what this war is about. I'm not sure you can say the same. The SecDef said it best recently - "We can fight the terrorists where they live today, or fight them in America tomorrow."

Big picture.

My emotions had nothing to do with the statement you responded to, Partner. Your response, however...

[cibco]

Ping!

[section9]

A lot of people, led strangely enough by the anti-Bush Libertarians and the Justin Raimondo crowd, fail to see the point you are making, and do so deliberately.

If we let the terrorists have their way in their own stomping grounds, we will be attacked here at home later on.

It is that simple. It would take someone as cluelessly partisan as Maureen Dowd to miss the point (see Dowd's screed in today's Times).

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[arete]

So you base all your questions on the misleading and questionable premise the administration propagandists and Washington carnival barkers put out as reasons to justify being in that swamp and getting our sons and daughters killed and expect answers? Kinda like the pod people who say Saddam was an evil-doer and a threat to us so what's not to like about an invasion? Heard one of the funniest lines of this whole sick mess yesterday though which even brought a smile to my face -- "Now that we're stuck up to our necks in the mud hole, lost our compass and it's the dead of night, we are not going to retreat."

Richard W.

[Mr. Silverback]

I don't buy for one minute that the Iraqi population was better armed than us but just sat around watching their daughters get raped; it just wasn't that simple. However, let's look at the facts that you aren't letting get in your way:

The 1991 uprising made early gains, but was quickly crushed. We called for these folks to rise up, then we stood around while they were slaughtered when they didn't have the arms to handle the heavy troops. They did what you asked, they rose up, and they died in futility. We owe these people a debt of honor, but you call them gutless.

You also seem to have forgotten the "gutless" Iraqi people in the northern Kurdish areas. Do they count, or does fighting Saddam off and holding a chunk of territory for years not constitute resistance?

Saddam had one of the most intrusive secret police forces in memory. If Joe Iraqi has no leadership, no idea who feels the same and no idea how many of his neighbors are Ba'ath party informants, how exactly does he become the next Boris Yeltsin?

Lastly, even if the Iraqi people were a bunch of gutless wonders, why exactly would that prevent us from taking down a regime that funds, trains and harbors terrorists?

[Peach]

Have you ever read a book about Iraq? There isn't a positive one on the market but perhaps you'd like to write one - not that there is a market for that kind of revisionist history.

I've read every book I can lay my hands on about Iraq and can recommend The Threatening Storm. Not that I think you'll read it - you have an agenda you're too busy pushing.

[Peach]

You still haven't responded to the many posts I sent you, including one this morning, about how many ways Hitler sympathizers killed our soldiers in post-war Germany.

Guess you think it's never happened before - soldiers dying in a war to protect our strategic interests and national security interests.

[Peach]

Have you read ANY of the articles linking Iraq and AQ to the FIRST World Trade Center attack? You would prefer we just let them be and come and attack us at any time.

Are you even aware there are congressmen who want investigations re-opened into the first WTC attack because they have seen the intelligence that suggests Iraq was behind it? Get a clue.

[arete]

You obviously will believe anything that the now desperate administration spin machine puts out to justify getting us into Iraq. Whatever happened on 9/11 sure as heck wasn't planned and executed by Iraq, but then again, we sure as heck couldn't do anything about Saudi Arabia given their business ties and old friendships with people in high places. I know -- let's blame Saddam. Yeah, that's the ticket! Saddam did it.

Richard W.