posted on May 13, 2006 06:10:21 AM
Iraq War Update for 5/13/2006
Total 2437 American Troops Dead
Total 17869 American Troops
2 Billion U.S. dollars being spent in Iraq every week.
AFP: US terminates part of major Iraq hospital-building contract
The US Army Corps of Engineers said it had partially terminated its contract with the second largest reconstruction contractor in Iraq due to lack of progress on its mission to rebuild hospitals.
posted on May 14, 2006 07:04:57 AM
Iraq War Update for 5/14/2006
05/14/06 AP: Military Ignoring Mental Illness
U.S. military troops with severe psychological problems have been sent to Iraq or kept in combat, even when superiors have been aware of signs of mental illness.
05/14/06 AP: Bombs kill 26 people in Iraqi capital
A string of bombings ripped through the Iraqi capital Sunday, killing at least 26 people and injuring more than 60. Six Shiite shrines were damaged in a series of blasts around the Baqouba area northeast of the capital.
Civilians reported killed by military intervention in Iraq
Min 35119
posted on May 15, 2006 04:49:40 AM
Iraq War Update 5/15/2006
Total 2443 Dead American Troops
Total 17983 Wounded American Troops
05/15/06 Reuters: Iraqi children suffering 'alarming' malnutrition: survey
Malnutrition among Iraqi children has reached alarming levels, according to a UN-backed government survey showing people are struggling to cope three years after US-forces overthrew Saddam Hussein.
05/15/06 AP: U.S. wonders if Iraqi police reliable
As Pentagon officials weigh the pace and timing of a sizable troop cut in Iraq, they worry more about the reliability of U.S.-trained Iraqi police than about the more developed Iraqi army.
05/15/06 CNN: Four teachers slain near Baquba
Four teachers were killed Monday by gunmen near Balad Ruz, northeast of Baghdad, an official with the Diyala Joint Coordination Center told CNN. The teachers were traveling to work in a minibus when the gunmen stopped their vehicle around 8:10 a.m. Monday
05/15/06 dailymail: Two British soldiers killed in Iraq named
Privates Joseva Lewaicei, 25, and 19-year-old Adam Morris died in Basra, bringing the British military death toll in Iraq to 111. They were killed as they travelled in a convoy of armoured Land Rover vehicles at about 11.45pm local time.
posted on May 16, 2006 08:38:09 AM
Iraq War Update 5/16/2006
Total 2448 American Troops
Total 17869 Wounded American Troops
05/16/06 Reuters: In Iraq war, time is a weapon
U.S. forces in Iraq, locked in a war that cannot be won by military force alone, are facing a weapon that tends to favor insurgents -- time. The war is in its fourth year and public support is waning. According to opinion polls taken in May...
05/16/06 AP: Army Says War Movie May Trigger Mental Health Issues
The U.S. Army is warning soldiers and their families that a new film about an Iraq war medical unit may trigger mental health problems for some who view it.
posted on May 16, 2006 11:35:27 AMTry looking somewhere other that the biased left media.
Bear, I guess you can pretend that nothing bad is happening when all you read are extreme right-wing sites. After all, they don't report it and none of the returning coffins are ever seen nor are the deaths or injuries or mental problems or health issues ever discussed by the government. Out of sight, out of mind, right?
posted on May 16, 2006 02:19:57 PM
I've said it many time and I'll say it again. All the negative publicity pumped out by the left controlled media is playing into support for the terrorists.
They are feeding and feeling empowered on that negative publicity thus strengthening their resolve to win.
Just like the Viet anti war movement ultimately led to the US from withdrawing from Viet Nam and it aided the N Vietnamese by strengthening their resolve.
And strangely it is only the anti war people who think we are fighting a losing war. If the war is lost in Iran, where will the terrorists strike again?
I'd be willing to bet the entire US would become a greater target since these same terrorists are not being drawn to a central fighting arena like Iraq & Afghanistan
And it is news to Americas fighting men that the war is being lost. Also, strangely only since the letter networks reporters stopped accompanying the troops in the field has it been reported the war is being lost.
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NCOs Note Differences Between What They See and What They Hear
By Jim Garamone
American Forces Press Service
CAMP LIBERTY, Iraq, May 10, 2006 – It's the e-mails and calls from home that gave the soldiers of the 4th Infantry Division their first clue that something is becoming different about the will of the American people.
"All this time I thought we were winning," said a sergeant first class sarcastically. "Seems folks back home have already run up the white flag."
Some 4th Infantry Division noncommissioned officers were discussing the flood of e-mails they receive from family members and friends about the constant danger they are facing in Iraq. Though they asked not to be identified by name for this article, the NCOs said they believe the news media highlight explosions and murders over any sign of progress in Iraq.
"I see progress every time I go outside the wire," said a platoon sergeant. "Just look at the progress the Iraqi army has made."
The NCOs, many with years of infantry experience, said the Iraqi army has made tremendous strides since standing up just two years ago. The difference between the Iraqi National Guard that first stood up in the aftermath of the fall of Saddam Hussein and today's Iraqi army is night and day, said an NCO who served with the 101st Airborne Division in 2003's initial combat in Iraq.
He said the old Iraqi military hardly even fired its weapons. "We joked that the safest place to be was where they were aiming," he said.
But today's Iraqi army has developed the professional warrior ethos needed to be an effective fighting force. The men said the Iraqi NCOs are taking charge of their units and tending to 'NCO business.'
"In the old army, being an NCO just meant you were paid more," said an NCO. Now the Iraqi NCOs are serious about training their troops and ensuring they are cared for.
One NCO spoke about an incident in Baghdad that the Iraqi army handled without any help from the coalition. "There was a (car bomb) attack and the Iraqis handled it," he said. The Iraqi soldiers rushed to the scene, delivered aid to those wounded, cordoned off the area and searched it for other threats, and secured the site while Iraqi police conducted the investigation.
This is not to say there aren't problems, the NCOs said. While the Iraqi army has made tremendous progress, the Iraqi police - especially the local police - have a long way to go. But they're continuing to make progress, the NCOs said.
The special police units - now called the national police - are almost as professional as the military, the NCOs said. And the young recruits to the local police understand what is required of them and have embraced the training. "If that continues when they get on the street is the test," an NCO said.
These NCOs are not ready to leave Iraq, and they resent suggestions that they aren't doing good in this war-weary country.
"I have yet to speak to (an American) here who thinks we're losing," an NCO said. "Trust me. (No soldier) wants to be here, but no one wants to cut and run either."
"Leaving would just send the wrong signal to our enemies," he said.
"“More Iraqis think things are going well in Iraq than Americans do. I guess they don’t get the New York Times over there.”—Jay Leno".
posted on May 16, 2006 02:27:34 PM
We don't need to be in Iraq, anymore. Raze the place and get the shell out! Iran needs attention, absolutely, positively overnight!
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The raghead fig-puckers are fighting to spread their culture and religion, and to destroy ours
posted on May 16, 2006 04:04:50 PM
Bear said about my Iraq War Updates. "Try looking somewhere other that the biased left media."
Who released the photos of the hijacked plane flying into the Pentagon on 9/11 today was that the liberal left media? Or was it this FAILED AND DESPERATE CONSERVATIVE GOVERNMENT looking for ways to gain LACKING SUPPORT. LOL
Bear its been tough for you guys to get any traction in the last few months.
Just remember its not my fault you conservatives are having such problems. I didn't vote for DUMBO BUSH AND HIS GANG OF CROOKS.
BEAR COME AND JOIN THE GREAT AMERICAN PROTEST ON NOVEMBER 7th 2006. TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE A MUCH BETTER AMERICA FOR ALL NOT JUST A SELECT FEW.
posted on May 16, 2006 04:42:54 PM Who released the photos of the hijacked plane flying into the Pentagon on 9/11 today was that the liberal left media?
It wasnt released by the left media only because they didnt have an authorized copy of it.
Bear its been tough for you guys to get any traction in the last few months.
With all the Sh*t the left is slinging, its difficult for anyone to get traction.
"“More Iraqis think things are going well in Iraq than Americans do. I guess they don’t get the New York Times over there.”—Jay Leno".
posted on May 16, 2006 06:07:44 PM
Bear, blaming 'the left' for the insurgency in Iraq is silly. Do you really think that if the reality of the situation in Iraq is hushed up and shoved under the rug and never mentioned by anyone including the media then the insurgents, aka 'that handful of thugs' will stop the violence?
posted on May 16, 2006 06:49:16 PM
Bear,
The Iraq War updates I post daily are all true. The dead and wounded numbers are released by the U.S. Government.
If you want I can always say the U.S. Government says 2448 American are now dead.
The U.S. Government says 17869 of American Troops have been wounded. So people like you don't think the numbers are from left wing media sources.
The COVER UP by this government about the Iraq War are no different from the lies a lot of us heard about Vet Nam from a different U.S. Government.
You got to admit that DUMBO BUSH AND SHOOTER CHENEY have continually told the American people lies about the progress being made in Iraq.
The only difference is a lot of us are hip to Government Lies much faster now. It doesn't take Government Troops shooting a bunch of unarmed Kent State College kids in Ohio to wake people up to the BUSH CHENEY LIES.
COME JOIN THE GREAT AMERICAN PROTEST ON NOVEMBER 7th 2006.
posted on May 16, 2006 07:01:11 PMDo you really think that if the reality of the situation in Iraq is hushed up and shoved under the rug and never mentioned by anyone including the media then the insurgents, aka 'that handful of thugs' will stop the violence?
And do you really think youre that smart? aka go google it?? yeah kiara for secretary of defense...hahaha!! Ms. thinks she knows it all and probably never even set foot on a military base! pfffst...
posted on May 16, 2006 11:45:12 PM
Have to again laugh at peepa's total IGNORANCE.
The tape was released because other wacko's, like peepa, out there have been claiming that NO plane hit the Pentagon. They had their own wacko conspiracies.
SO....Judicial Watch went to court to get the tapes to disprove THE wacko's nonsense. They did.
Now only the one's that need to be committed to a mental institute would believe it wasn't a plane.
Disclaimer.....that might STILL include peepa. lol
While the democratic party complains about everything THIS President does to protect our Nation:
What would a Democrat president have done at that point? Apparently, the answer is: Sit back and wait for the next terrorist attack.
Ann Coulter
posted on May 16, 2006 11:50:37 PMNCOs Note Differences Between What They See and What They Hear By Jim Garamone American Forces Press Service CAMP LIBERTY, Iraq, May 10, 2006 –
Yes, bear....just ANOTHER article about how our troops see the successes they're making in Iraq vs what the anti-war, MSM liberal lying media reports.
They stay in their safety zone where they can't see a thing that goes on.....but they know it ALL. ROFLOL
And I agree....they ARE doing EXACTLY what they did in the VN conflict. Aiding and abetting our enemies. Nice. NOT!!!
But this President has said we're staying until either Iraq asks us to leave, we see that the Iraqi army CAN defend themselves or the next President is elected in 2009.
Thank God this President is in office rather than these anti/un Americans.
It appears they think this terrorism issue will all just go away if we bring our troops home.
They're blind to the threat our Nation faces. Totally blind.
While the democratic party complains about everything THIS President does to protect our Nation:
What would a Democrat president have done at that point? Apparently, the answer is: Sit back and wait for the next terrorist attack.
Ann Coulter
posted on May 17, 2006 12:04:36 AM"Dismissing dissent is not only wrong but dangerous when America's leadership is unwilling to admit mistakes, unwilling to engage in honest discussion and unwilling to hold itself accountable for the consequences of decisions made without genuine disclosure or genuine debate."
"Although no one is being jailed today for speaking out against the war in Iraq, the spirit of intolerance for dissent has risen steadily, and the habit of labeling dissenters as unpatriotic has become the common currency of the politicians currently running our country."
BTW have you found that link yet, lindak? What a coward, sneaking in late at night to do your same little rants trying to cover up the fact that you have nothing to back up your false claims about others that post here.
posted on May 17, 2006 12:27:58 AM
If you check you will see that I came here to post to the thread about American Idol so I sure wasn't sneaking anywhere.
What's wrong......... don't like to be reminded that you post crap about others and when called on it you cower and run away each time and then whine like a victim and cry harassment?
posted on May 17, 2006 12:32:13 AM
I doubt only a few still believe your "I'm hardly ever here posts....only when I'm taking a break from my oh so busy, exciting life." routine anymore, kiara.
You're here 24/7 it appears. Always waiting in the darkness to pop in and attack.
No matter what time of day or night I post...YOU'RE ALWAYS RIGHT HERE.
Looks like you're obsessed with me still.
And you're just so petty kiara....so darm desperate and pathetic....focus on your own life and actions for a change. It will sicken you I'm sure.
Now...that's ALL the attention you're getting from me. Harass me next time I visit. LOL
posted on May 17, 2006 12:36:27 AM
I stopped by this evening and if you can't handle it then that's your little problem to deal with and not mine, lindak. Just because you sit on the boards all day don't think everyone else mirrors your sad life.
posted on May 17, 2006 04:54:16 AM
HEY LIAR_K, IF THIS POST IS NOT TRUE ABOUT YOUR BELOVED IRAQ WAR, PROVE IT OTHERWISE PISS OFF.
Remember its not my sides fault DUMBO BUSH AND THE CONSERVATIVES ARE IN SUCH A BIG SELF-IMPOSED MESS. WE DIDN'T VOTE FOR ANY OF THEIR LIES. BUT YOU DID LIAR_K AND NOW YOUR GETTING WHAT YOU VOTED FOR. SO AGAIN PISS OFF.
Iraq War Update 5/17/2006
Total 2450 American Troops Dear
Total 17983 American Troops Wounded
05/17/06 RTE: Three policemen and baker killed in Baquba
In Baquba, north of Baghdad, gunmen killed one man and wounded another in a gun attack on a bakery. Insurgents then killed three policemen and wounded five others in a subsequent bombing of the same site.
05/16/06 Xinhua: Iraqi college dean, guards shot dead in Baghdad
A college dean and his two bodyguards were shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Baghdad on Tuesday..."The dean of Economics and Management College of Baghdad University was shot dead by gunmen in Adhmeyia district in northern Baghdad...
posted on May 17, 2006 10:09:57 AM Bear, blaming 'the left' for the insurgency in Iraq is silly.
Clueless in Canada.
he Iraq War updates I post daily are all true. The dead and wounded numbers are released by the U.S. Government.
Yet the manner in which you post those figures is as misleading as is the norm for the left.
You fail to differentiate the KIA deaths (1926) and deaths (522) from non hostile action. You also fail to note those that are wounded and return to duty within 72 hours (9786) from those that do not return to duty (8302) within 72 hours. (Figures as of 05/17/2006)
California homicides in 2003 (2402) exceded the total number of American KIA deaths in all of the Iraqi war. It is still safer for US troops in Iraq that US citizens living in California.
"“More Iraqis think things are going well in Iraq than Americans do. I guess they don’t get the New York Times over there.”—Jay Leno".
posted on May 17, 2006 10:59:27 AM
Bear,
If you want to pick apart something go pick your nose.
Bear said,"You fail to differentiate the KIA deaths (1926) and deaths (522) from non hostile action" LOL
Look here Bear. The TOTAL number of American Troops that have died in the POORLY PLANNED AND LIED ABOUT Iraq War is 2450 as of 5/17/2006.
Bear is trying to be like his slime ball failed leaders that make up saying like. "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED","A HAND FULL OF THUGS","INSURGENTS ARE ON THEIR LAST LEGS",WE GOT THEM ON THE RUN. LOL
ITS THE SAME OLD BULL ROAR DURING VET NAM WE HEARD ABOUT FALSE BODY COUNTS ALSO.
posted on May 17, 2006 12:30:02 PM
Facts are facts sheepa, by posting the figures as you do, you are giving a false impression as to casuality rates. In other words you are lying by omission.
Well sheepa, if we pull out of Iraq due to cowards like you, it would only be fitting if the first strike the terrorists make in the US is at your home address.
Illegal War? Hardly. It was authorized by several UN decelerations, or is your memory failing like your eyesite & hearing.
PS. No comment about California been more deadly than Iraq.
On Iraq and WMD: Did the president lie?
Larry Elder
Can one make the case that President George W. Bush "lied" or "misled" or intentionally "mischaracterized" the intelligence on Iraq and WMD in order to lead us to war? Sure, if one possesses a visceral anti-Bush mindset coupled with a willingness to ignore powerful arguments in favor of the war:
-- Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski, during a press conference last week, said "Many months before (the) Iraqi action, I met (the) predecessor of (chief U.N. weapons inspector) Hans Blix in Warsaw. . . . He told me (a) very important thing: that Saddam had these weapons or is ready to produce these weapons. Because to have such (an) impression that he has mass destruction weapons is a part of his doctrine, to keep . . . power in Iraq and to be strong in the region. So I think it's very difficult today to judge how it was when he . . . decided to continue this project of mass destruction weapons. . . . Absolutely, Iraq is ready to produce if it's necessary to keep the power of and dictatorship of Saddam and to play such (an) important role in the region."
-- In October 2003, months after the Iraq war began, former President Bill Clinton visited Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Manuel Durao Barroso. Durao Barroso said, "When Clinton was here recently he told me he was absolutely convinced, given his years in the White House and the access to privileged information which he had, that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction until the end of the Saddam regime."
-- French President Jacques Chirac, in February 2003, spoke about "the probable possession of weapons of mass destruction by an uncontrollable country, Iraq," noting "the international community is right . . . in having decided that Iraq should be disarmed."
-- Former Clinton CIA director R. James Woolsey, in a Wall Street Journal article, made several points -- that Saddam possibly intentionally misled the world into thinking he still possessed WMD to keep his status as a power player in the region; that stockpiles of WMD possibly remained only to be destroyed at the last minute; that WMD-related material "probably" entered Syria months before the war; that Iraq admitted making 8,500 liters (8.5 tons) of anthrax, which if reduced to powder, could fill a dozen easily portable suitcases; and that "Iraq's ties with terrorist groups in the '90s are clear," with a decade worth of connections between Iraq and al Qaeda, "including training in poisons, gases, and explosives."
-- Weapons hunter David Kay, testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee, said that based on the pre-war intelligence, Saddam Hussein posed "a gathering, serious threat to the world." Hussein's scientists possibly misled the former dictator into believing Iraq possessed WMD, with the scientists possibly misappropriating funds. Kay also said that, based on his investigation, Iraq posed an even greater danger than previously thought.
-- Former President Bill Clinton on Dec. 16, 1998, stated, "Other countries possess weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles. With Saddam, there is one big difference: He has used them. Not once, but repeatedly. Unleashing chemical weapons against Iranian troops during a decade-long war. Not only against soldiers, but against civilians, firing Scud missiles at the citizens of Israel, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Iran. And not only against a foreign enemy, but even against his own people, gassing Kurdish civilians in Northern Iraq. . . . I have no doubt today, that left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will use these terrible weapons again. . . . "
-- Former President Clinton, in an appearance on "Larry King Live" on July 22, 2003, said, " . . . (I)t is incontestable that on the day I left office, there were unaccounted for stocks of biological and chemical weapons. We might have destroyed them in '98. We tried to, but we sure as heck didn't know it because we never got to go back there."
The near pathological contempt so many hold for President Bush clouds their ability to put themselves in the commander-in-chief's shoes. On Sept. 11, in America, over 3,000 people lost their lives. Meanwhile, Saddam Hussein continued to defy United Nations Security Council resolutions to come clean. He flouted the U.N.-sponsored Oil-for-Food program, diverting the money from its intended purpose.
Critics quite properly accuse the U.S. intelligence community for failing to connect the dots and thus prevent 9/11. After the first Gulf War in 1991, the advanced nature of Saddam Hussein's nuclear weapons program shocked intelligence analysts. Nuclear bomb testing in India and Pakistan came as a surprise, as did the advanced nature of Iran's and Libya's WMD programs. By all means, the U.S. intelligence failures call for serious soul-searching, and possibly housekeeping to improve accuracy.
But, in the case of pre-war Iraq, the president's critics suggest the following: Cross your fingers, hope for the best, and run the risk of another attack on American soil, this time possibly with chemical or biological weapons. No, the president acted upon the best available information and properly discharged his responsibility as commander-in-chief.
"“More Iraqis think things are going well in Iraq than Americans do. I guess they don’t get the New York Times over there.”—Jay Leno".
posted on May 17, 2006 02:24:33 PM
Bear,
The murder rate in California has nothing to do with American Troops Deaths in the Iraq War.
I didn't answer about California to let you save face and not look like a desperate jerk trying to make a comparison between Iraq and California.
Bear said to me "you are giving a false impression as to causality rates" because I list all the American Troops that have lost their lives in Iraq.
I guess this fool bear thinks your only dead if you got killed in action.
I got to tell ya bear its no wonder your party is in trouble if its full of people thinking like you.
LASTLY I WILL NOT FALL FOR THE OLD WORN OUT CONSERVATIVE NEOCON SCARE TACTICS CALLED TERRORIST. REALITY TELLS ME AMERICA WILL GET HIT BECAUSE OF WIDE OPEN BORDERS,PLUS NO SECURITY OR INSPECTION IN OUR PORTS. I AM DOING WHAT YOUR PRESIDENT HAS ASKED ALL AMERICANS TO DO. I AM LIVING MY LIVE WITHOUT FEAR.
posted on May 17, 2006 06:26:36 PM
Rumsfeld: Troop Reduction in Iraq Unlikely in 2006
All Things Considered, May 17, 2006 · It may not be possible to reduce U.S. troop levels in Iraq this year, according to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's testimony before a Senate committee. In addition, Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the same committee it will be months before any Iraqi army units are ready to operate completely on their own.
FACE IT BECAUSE OF POOR CIVILIAN PLANNING AND LEADERSHIP OUR TROOPS WILL CONTINUE TO DIE AND BE WOUNDED IN IRAQ FOR A LONG TIME.
NOT TO MENTION SPENDING A BILLION U.S. DOLLARS EVER WEEK OR SO IN IRAQ.
ALL BECAUSE OF DUMBO AND HIS GANG OF CROOKS AND LIARS.
posted on May 17, 2006 11:11:26 PM California homicides in 2003 (2402) exceded the total number of American KIA deaths in all of the Iraqi war. It is still safer for US troops in Iraq that US citizens living in California.
Bear, to always compare the loss of lives of men and women sent into a war zone with homicides in California from 3 years ago diminishes everything that the troops stand for.
You and lindak should be ashamed for always showing such dishonor and a lack of respect for what the troops are required to do in the line of duty. It’s heartless to casually brush off their deaths as if they are meaningless just to continue showing support for the wrongful actions of your president.
posted on May 17, 2006 11:14:38 PM
lindak, please note that I worked all day again and this was my first post here. So when you're wandering around in the middle of the night still ranting nonstop since early morning and imagining others stalking and harassing you, remember the west coast is a different time zone than Arkansas so it's not the middle of the night here.
and imagining others stalking and harassing you, remember the west coast is a different time zone than Arkansas so it's not the middle of the night here.