Breaking - 12 Marines, 66 Iraqis Killed in Battles.

[wilheim]

NAJAF, Iraq - Insurgents and rebellious Shiites mounted a string of attacks across Iraq's south and U.S. Marines launched a major assault on the turbulent city of Fallujah on Tuesday. Up to a dozen Marines, two more coalition soldiers and at least 66 Iraqis were reported killed.

Reports from the city of Ramadi, near Fallujah, said dozens of Iraqis attacked a Marine position near the governor's palace, a senior defense official said from Washington. "A significant number" of Marines were killed, and initial reports indicate it may be up to a dozen, said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Two more coalition soldiers — an American in Baghdad and a Ukrainian in Kut — were killed in fighting. The deaths brought the three-day total to up to about 30 Americans and 136 Iraqis killed in the worst fighting since the war that toppled Saddam Hussein.


U.S. warplanes firing rockets destroyed four houses in Fallujah after nightfall Tuesday, witnesses said. A doctor said 26 Iraqis, including women and children, were killed and 30 wounded in the strike. The deaths brought to 34 the number of Iraqis killed in Fallujah on Tuesday, including eight who died in street battles earlier in the day.

Reuters.

 

[wilheim]

President George W Bush walks past a saluting airman as he walks from Air Force One to Marine One in Waco, Texas, April 6, 2004. Support among Americans for Bush's handling of the Iraq war has fallen to 40 percent after last week's mutilation killings of U.S. contractors, according to a new poll issued on April 5. Photo by Jason Reed/Reuters

 

[wilheim]

President George W. Bush boards Air Force One in Waco, Texas, en route to a campaign event in Arkansas on April 6, 2004. As U.S. casualties and general chaos mount, public support for Bush's Iraq policy appears to be dropping sharply and some critics and analysts are starting to make comparisons with the Vietnam conflict. Photo by Jason Reed/Reuters

 

[kayaman+]

Let's just hope that when it's time to go to the polls the voters hold bush2 as responsible as he is for the American lives being senselessly lost in Iraq.

 

[Lt.Dan]

Wil,

RX flag at half-mast. Junior and his gang of draft-dodger chickenhawks never had the balls to fight for their country and now they are slaughtering the next generation through ignorance and avarice.

Semper Fi,

Lt. Dan

 

[wilheim]

Lt. Dan I see from your profile we have the same birthday (2-6), but I was born in 48, got you by a year. Aquarians.


wil.

 

[jimbutorac]

Wil,

Thanks for continuing to publicize our troops. People need to realize the folly of such a reckless, ill-guided foreign policy and the unnecessary sacrifice so many of our citizen-soldiers are forced to make.

If I thought this had one thing to do with supporting the effort against al-qaeda i'd be all for this effort. Sadly, that ain't the case.

 

[Lt.Dan]

Wil,

I was born in 1945. We share b-days w/ Ronnie Reagan (no choice) and Babe Ruth. Who were you w/ in Nam. I was medivaced by the 1st Cav, the horse & the slash and spent some time w/ the Americal Div (Lt. Calley) near Chu Lai. What you called My Lay, we called the Bobans. Calley got hosed!

Semper Fi,

Lt. Dan

 

[wilheim]

Dan - sorry I saw 49 in your profile. no problem. I was with 2nd of the 17th Air Cav, Pleiku, Central Highlands of VietNam, Jan 1968 - Jan 1969. AH-1G Cobras.

wil.