Another 8 Soldiers, 50 Iraqi’s Dead in Ever Escalating Violence in Iraq
Posted in H.L. News, Main Blog (All Posts) on July 7th, 2007 8:25 am by HL
As much as the mainstream media tries to make you forget about it, with stories of immigration, and Scooter Libby, the Iraq war rages on. 8 more US servicemen were killed yesterday. Day in, and day out the war continues. Most have put it on the back burner now, but it wasn’t long ago that 8 dead soldiers would have been a big story. Now it is barely mentioned.
Attacks kill 50 Iraqis, 8 U.S. troops
AP
TUZ KHORMATO, Iraq – Suicide bombings killed nearly 50 people and wounded dozens in two Shiite villages north of Baghdad, including a large truck explosion Saturday that ripped through an outdoor market and buried victims in rubble, officials said.
Separately, eight American troops and a British soldier were killed in fighting over two days….
The U.S. military on Saturday announced the deaths of eight U.S. servicemembers in combat, most in the Baghdad area.
Four soldiers were killed in two roadside bomb attacks on their patrols, both in the capital, the military said. A U.S. soldier and an Iraqi interpreter were killed Friday when an explosively formed penetrator exploded near their patrol in southeastern Baghdad. Explosively formed penetrators are high-tech bombs that the U.S. believes are provided by Iran, a charge denied by Tehran.
On Thursday, two Marines were killed in western Anbar province and a soldier died in Baghdad, the latest military statement said.
Another soldier died Friday of non battle-related cause and his death is under investigation, the military said without giving further details.
In the far south of Iraq, British troops came under heavy attack by militants in Basra, killing one soldier and wounding three, the British military said Saturday.
HLs Take
So on and on it goes. Everyone sitting back to wait until September when the “Surge” report will come out. Everyone knows that the report will say that the Surge was an unmitigated failure just like the man who implemented it. That is if the report comes out at all, then there will be much had wringing but nothing will be done as long as the murder asshole is still President. Democrats will do nothing, and each day more and more soldiers and civilians die, each day they die for no reason other then it makes Bush and Cheney Rich, and the Democrats are too cowardly, or too implicit to stop it.
July 7th, 2007 at 11:08 am
I went to your article and also went to the iraq slogger and could find nothing about where we lost any of our people and the 50 dead iraqis this is what i found much worse than you said:
Tikrit, Jul 7, (VOI)- The casualties from the explosion that occurred in Tuz Khurmato district on Saturday morning rose up to 100 dead and 120 wounded, said a medical source while a security source said that scores of gunmen impeded the rescue work in the city that is located 200 km northeast of the Iraqi capital Baghdad.
nothing was said about our people dieing, and it was blamed on al-Qaida:
i pulled this from your atricle also: Abdullah Jabara, the deputy governor of Salahuddin province, told state-run Iraqiya television that 115 people died — nearly three-quarters of them women, children and elderly. He blamed al-Qaida.
July 8th, 2007 at 8:47 am
Why dont you cowards report on how many Islamofascist roaches we destroy and send to their false God Allah to the pits of hell? You want the US to lose to further your pathetic agenda. We are winning in Iraq
July 8th, 2007 at 2:11 pm
“We are winning in Iraq”
Just like we won all those battles in Vietnam?
July 9th, 2007 at 8:29 am
CCV got to say that you don’t sound like a christian but i will aggree with your views and we are doing good over in iraq and i would like to see my sister come home from iraq and my brother back from afghan. if we let the dems take the reins than the only manover our military will be good at is retreat and surender
July 10th, 2007 at 9:21 am
CCV ==> You are a crypto and not a Christian. You’ve purposely used the word Christian to debase it. Only one type of person would do so. Since you’re such a Semite hater, why don’t you go serve in the military? Do you have the cojones?
Ghost Walker ==> I hope your siblings make it home alive, not that they deserve to. When you act and take part in an immoral and illegal war, all bad things that happen can be expected. Shame on you for supporting death and destruction when you’re siblings are the ones that will suffer the consequences.