[LANMaster]

THE SIMPLE LIFE: FALLUJAH



AERIAL SHOT: Nicole & Paris, fashionably dressed, wander thru ruins of Fallujah. Paris carries odious chihuahua Tinkerbelle.
NICOLE: Where the hell are we??

CUT TO: Paris & Nicole meet platoon of battered insurgents. Charred poster on wall: Roger & Me.
PARIS: Hi guys. We just came from Ramallah.
NICOLE: They hated us. We got fired from the intifada.
PARIS: So. What do you guys do for fun in Fallujah?
INSURGENTS: Behead the infidel!
PARIS & NICOLE: Niiiiice.
LEADER: I am Mohammed Mohammed. (points to drooling mongoloid) This is Mohammed³. He will achieve martyrdom after you perform ritual shaving of the anus.
PARIS: Oh god, I HATE this!

CUT TO: Nicole shaving insurgent's hairy ***.
NICOLE: This is so rude! I need a Weed-Whacker!
PARIS: I'm so gonna die! (cell phone rings) Oh hi, Mom! In Fallujah. Nothing, there's NOTHING here, it's a pile of rocks! They don't even have a spa!
NICOLE: AIEEE! Look Paris, dingleberries!
PARIS: (runs screaming; hilarious montage of Nicole chasing Paris with insurgent dingleberries)

CUT TO: Paris & Nicole in form-fitting fatigues & Manolo Blahniks.
LEADER: Now you will accompany Mohammed³ as he achieves martyrdom.
PARIS: But I don't have anything to wear!
NICOLE: Let's go shopping!

CUT TO: Paris & Nicole at Chador Summertacular
PARIS: (to saleslady) Is there a petite section? Do you have this in a pastel?
NICOLE: She hates us.

CUT TO: Paris & Nicole, glumly eating dinner with insurgents, plates piled with charred mystery gristle.
PARIS: Gross! I can't believe you're eating that, Nicole!
NICOLE: It's not bad. Where's Tinkerbelle, anyway?
INSURGENTS grin.
PARIS: (throws plate) AIEEE!

CUT TO: Insurgents wave goodbye as Paris, Nicole, & grinning Mohammed³ climb into martyrdom Buick. Paris slams door & insurgents dive for cover.
LEADER: Don't slam door!!
Insurgents wave as car pulls away.
PARIS: Bye guys! Bye-bye!
NICOLE: What does that mean anyway, 'achieve martyrdom'?
PARIS: Who knows. Let's just hope there's boutiques. God, I HATE this.



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[linskyjack]

Another Five Men: Casualties of Mr. Bush's Madness:

raq bomb kills five US Marines
Five American Marines have been killed in a roadside blast in western Iraq, US officials say.

The attack came hours after reports that 17 bodies had been found bound and killed execution-style in the same restive province, Anbar.

In Baghdad, at least three Iraqis were killed and several wounded in a car bomb attack near a busy marketplace in the mainly Shia district of Shula.

In Kirkuk and Basra, police colonels were killed in drive-by shootings.

"Five marines were killed in action Thursday when their vehicle hit an explosive device while conducting combat operations near Haqlaniyah," the US military said in a statement.

Further west, close to the Syrian border, 17 bodies were found in two separate groups near the desert town of Qaim.

Officials said 22 Iraqi soldiers were kidnapped in the area on Wednesday but it was not clear if the bodies were of some of the troops.

Eleven of the bodies had been dumped in a gravel pit.

Witnesses, including an Associated Press reporter, said the victims had their hands tied behind their backs and were wearing civilian clothes.

Website claim

The discovery came a day after six bodies were found nearby, also in civilian clothes. Some of them had been beheaded, witnesses said.

The group of soldiers went missing on Wednesday after leaving their Qaim base to go to Baghdad on leave. They had been wearing civilian clothes, police said.

Al-Qaeda in Iraq, the group led by Iraq's most-wanted militant, Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi, said on a website it had captured 36 Iraqi soldiers, or "infidel guards", in western Iraq on Wednesday.

The blast in Baghdad happened near a busy marketplace at 2200 (1800 GMT), an hour before a night-time curfew came into the effect, an interior ministry source told the AFP news agency.

At least 15 people were wounded, the AFP reported.

Police in the northern city of Kirkuk said Colonel Rahim Uthman, head of the local anti-terrorist department, had been killed on Thursday.

He and his assistant Major Ghanim Jihad were shot dead from a blue BMW, they said.

And on Friday in the southern city of Basra, the commander of the local police academy was shot dead.

Three or four gunmen in a car swerved in front of Colonel Abdelkarim Daraji's vehicle and opened fire, police said. His brother also died in the attack.

[angelize56]

I can only imagine how high the death toll will be by 2015 for our troops!

[LANMaster]

Originally Posted by linskyjack

Another Five Men: Casualties of Mr. Bush's Madness:

raq bomb kills five US Marines

Sounds to me like the bombs were placed and detonated by insurgents, not President Bush.

[linskyjack]

Sounds to me that if Bush hadn't invented this war to have an actual laboratory to test neo-conservative academic policy, then these five guys would still be alive and that their families wouldn't be destroyed forever

[xico]

Originally Posted by linskyjack

Another Five Men: Casualties of Mr. Bush's Madness:

raq bomb kills five US Marines
Five American Marines have been killed in a roadside blast in western Iraq, US officials say.

The attack came hours after reports that 17 bodies had been found bound and killed execution-style in the same restive province, Anbar.

In Baghdad, at least three Iraqis were killed and several wounded in a car bomb attack near a busy marketplace in the mainly Shia district of Shula.

In Kirkuk and Basra, police colonels were killed in drive-by shootings.

"Five marines were killed in action Thursday when their vehicle hit an explosive device while conducting combat operations near Haqlaniyah," the US military said in a statement.

Further west, close to the Syrian border, 17 bodies were found in two separate groups near the desert town of Qaim.

Officials said 22 Iraqi soldiers were kidnapped in the area on Wednesday but it was not clear if the bodies were of some of the troops.

Eleven of the bodies had been dumped in a gravel pit.

Witnesses, including an Associated Press reporter, said the victims had their hands tied behind their backs and were wearing civilian clothes.

Website claim

The discovery came a day after six bodies were found nearby, also in civilian clothes. Some of them had been beheaded, witnesses said.

The group of soldiers went missing on Wednesday after leaving their Qaim base to go to Baghdad on leave. They had been wearing civilian clothes, police said.

Al-Qaeda in Iraq, the group led by Iraq's most-wanted militant, Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi, said on a website it had captured 36 Iraqi soldiers, or "infidel guards", in western Iraq on Wednesday.

The blast in Baghdad happened near a busy marketplace at 2200 (1800 GMT), an hour before a night-time curfew came into the effect, an interior ministry source told the AFP news agency.

At least 15 people were wounded, the AFP reported.

Police in the northern city of Kirkuk said Colonel Rahim Uthman, head of the local anti-terrorist department, had been killed on Thursday.

He and his assistant Major Ghanim Jihad were shot dead from a blue BMW, they said.

And on Friday in the southern city of Basra, the commander of the local police academy was shot dead.

Three or four gunmen in a car swerved in front of Colonel Abdelkarim Daraji's vehicle and opened fire, police said. His brother also died in the attack.

Boy, when somebody in Iraq tells you that you're going to get the axe, they really mean it. The savagery is incredible! I don't think the Viet Cong were this brutal. I would think that killing someone personally is a bit different than killing someone technologically at a distance. I wonder what their dreams will be like in 5 or 10 years, if they havn't committed suicide. Don't think you can kill people like that, and then go home and have a bottle of beer and watch a soccer game.

[linskyjack]

Yeah, the whole thing is borderline surreal. Its time to get Jenna and Barbra in uniform and in harm's way. Time for the universal draft---the war would be over in about three weeks.

[xico]

Originally Posted by LANMaster

Sounds to me like the bombs were placed and detonated by insurgents, not President Bush.

I think International Law says that the Iraqis have a right to resist an invasion of their country. The invasion is illegal, especially now that we know that Bush was lying when he said that the war wasn't inevitable, that he was using diplomacy, and that war would be the last resort., ETC. If I take your son on a picnic, a cakewalk, on someone else's land, and he gets shot or killed, who you gona blame Lan? The guy that owns the land? Or the idiot that brought him there?

[angelize56]

I see they found 20 more dead Iraqis today....

[angelize56]

American death toll went over 1700 today....

[poochee]

And none of them named: Bush, Rumsfeld, or Rice!

[linskyjack]

Yeah, those draft-dodging cowards spent their weekend at some toney ranch or resort living the good life.

[poochee]

People are not enlisting, they are resisting the carrots being dangled to get enlistments. My heart goes out to our people over in that dangerous BC country.

[plschwartz]

Can Iraq's army take care of itself?
By Sabrina Tavernise and John F. Burns The New York Times

MONDAY, JUNE 13, 2005
MAHMUDIYA, Iraq A small but telling test of Iraq's fledgling new army came last week in this farm town south of Baghdad, when a group of Iraqi soldiers, ending a house raid and rushing to board pickup trucks they use as troop carriers, abandoned the blindfolded, handcuffed man they had come to arrest.

"They left the detainee," an astonished American soldier said, spotting the man squatting in the dust along a residential street. "They just left him there. Sweet."

The Iraqi troops were on their seventh house raid of the morning, part of a cordon-and-search operation in an area of towns and farmlands so dangerous that American soldiers call it the Triangle of Death. Prompted by the soldier, the Iraqis ran back for the prisoner and managed much of the rest of their mission effectively, rounding up 13 insurgent suspects in three hours without having to call for direct involvement of the watching American troops.

rest at http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/06/13/news/baghdad.php

[linskyjack]

Poll: USA is losing patience on Iraq

By Susan Page, USA TODAY Mon Jun 13, 6:56 AM ET

Nearly six in 10 Americans say the United States should withdraw some or all of its troops from
Iraq, a new Gallup Poll finds, the most downbeat view of the war since it began in 2003.


Patience for the war has dropped sharply as optimism about the Iraqi elections in January has ebbed and violence against U.S. troops hasn't abated. For the first time, a majority would be "upset" if
President Bush sent more troops. A new low, 36%, say troop levels should be maintained or increased.

The souring of public opinion presents challenges for the president, who has vowed to stay the course until democracy is established and Iraqi forces can ensure security. He hasn't suggested sending more U.S. troops.

"We have reached a tipping point," says Ronald Spector, a military historian at George Washington University. "Even some of those who thought it was a great idea to get rid of Saddam (Hussein) are saying, 'I want our troops home.' "

The pattern of public opinion on Iraq - strong support for the first two years that then erodes - is reminiscent of the Korean and Vietnam conflicts, he says.

White House spokesman David Almacy, asked about the poll, said it was "vital" for U.S. peace and security that "we complete the mission by training Iraqis to provide for their own security, and then our troops can return home with the honor they have earned."

Bush's approval-disapproval rating was 47%-49%, a tick worse than it was two weeks earlier but in the same range it has been for a year.

The poll is consistent with other recent surveys that show growing concern about the war. In an ABC News-Washington Post poll last week, two-thirds said the U.S. military was bogged down in Iraq, and nearly three-quarters called the casualty level unacceptable.

Bush says progress has been made in fighting the insurgency and training Iraqi forces, but the administration hasn't set a timetable for the withdrawal of nearly 140,000 U.S. troops. The Defense Department said Friday that 1,293 Americans have been killed in hostile action.

In the Gallup Poll, 56% say the Iraq war wasn't "worth it," essentially matching the high-water mark of 57% a month ago.

• Of those who say the war wasn't worth it, the top reasons cited are fraudulent claims and no weapons of mass destruction found; the number of people killed and wounded; and the belief that Iraq posed no threat to the United States.

• Of the 42% who say the war was worth it, the top reasons cited are the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States, the need to stop terrorism and a desire to end the oppression of the Iraqi people.

Delaware Sen. Joseph Biden (news, bio, voting record), the top Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee, said on NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday that an "incredible gap between the reality on the ground and the rhetoric back here" is costing Bush support on the war.

On ABC's This Week, Rep. Walter Jones (news, bio, voting record), R-N.C., an ardent supporter of the invasion, called on Bush for a timetable for withdrawing troops. "I feel that we have done about as much as we can do," he sai

It's nice to see that some Republicans are now beginning to see the madness of Iraq and are beginning to be heard. I think that Rep. Jones summed it up perfectly--we have done all that we can do and now it is time to bring our boys home.