36 More U.S. Troops Killed Today in Iraq! A Call for Self-Examination in the United States.
...It is also becoming increasingly obvious that the U.S. is losing this war. The military losses are heaping up upon the loss of international respect for the United States and it's loss of moral authority throughout the world. The United States looks more and more like a rudderless ship in a storm. It has no direction, purpose, leadership or honor. We call on all U.S. citizens to join the growing international movement to end the war in Iraq and bring the troops home without further delay...
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36 More U.S. Troops Killed Today in Iraq! A Call for Self-Examination in the United States.
Axis of Logic Editorial Board
By Axis Editors
Jan 26, 2005
Today was the most deadly day for the U.S. military since the first day of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. The Government/Corporate Media continues to describe the Iraqi resistance army as
"Sunni Muslims, loyal to Saddam Hussein - trying to prevent democracy"
- trying to derail the elections scheduled for January 30, 2005. It's a lie. It has been well-known and well-documented that the Iraqi Resistance is comprised of Sunnis and Shias throughout Iraq who want the invaders, occupiers and thieves out of their country.
It is also becoming increasingly obvious that the U.S. is losing this war. The military losses are heaping up upon the loss of international respect for the United States and it's loss of moral authority throughout the world. The United States looks more and more like a rudderless ship in a storm. It has no direction, purpose, leadership or honor.
We call on all U.S. citizens to join the growing international movement to end the war in Iraq and bring the troops home without further delay. Our sons and daughters were taken to Iraq on the lie that Iraq posed a threat to our national security. They are dying on the false pretext of "spreading liberty" and installing "democracy".
The time has long passed for all U.S. citizens to accept the fact that every nation has the sovereign right to independence and self-determination. This unprovoked war and continuing occupation is an outrageous violation of international law and is morally debased. Our children are being sacrificed for the wealth of a few men, for the theft of Iraq's oil reserves and the spread of the cancer of Global Corporate Empire.
We call upon everyone to find the courage to look into the mirror and to surrender to the painful self-examination surely awaits - one way or another. It is an honor to admit that one has been woefully wrong. It is a dishonor to wait until one is forced to look at oneself as a result tens of thousands more dead and wounded and a total collapse of our economy. We must look at our selves. We must look at our history of defeat in Vietnam. We must let go of the shallow ideas and manipulations our government and corporate media have used to cow us into submission. The politicians in Washington - Republican and Democrat alike - are funding and continuing the butchery. We cannot expect them to change the direction to which they are inexorably committed. The responsibility is ours and ours alone to stop the atrocities being committed in our name.
Details of the new U.S. military "statistics", now added to the infamy of the Neocon/Bush regime, are provided below.
- Axis of Logic Editorial Board
January 26, 2005
31 Killed in Marine Chopper Crash in Iraq
By Sameer N. Yacoub
Associated Press
BAGHDAD, Iraq - A U.S. military transport helicopter crashed during sandstorms in Iraq (news - web sites)'s western desert Wednesday, killing 31 people, all believed to be Marines, while insurgents killed five other American troops in the deadliest day for U.S. forces since the Iraq war began
The CH-53 Sea Stallion was carrying personnel from the 1st Marine Division when it went down about 1:20 a.m. near the town of Rutbah, about 220 miles west of Baghdad, while conducting security operations, the military said in a statement.
A search and rescue team has reached the site and an investigation into what caused the crash was under way.
The administration official said Wednesday that all 31 people killed in the crash were believed to be U.S. Marines — the most American servicemembers to die in a single incident in Iraq. It was also the deadliest day for U.S. forces since the March 2003 invasion.
In Iraq's Anbar province, four U.S. Marines were killed in fighting, the military said in a statement.
The statement gave no further details, but WABC reporter Jim Dolan, who was embedded with the troops who were attacked, said the deaths came when insurgents ambushed a Marine convoy leaving the town of Haditha, west of Baghdad, hitting a vehicle with a rocket-propelled grenade.
Also Wednesday, insurgents attacked a U.S. Army patrol near the northern town of Duluiyah, killing one soldier and wounding two others, the U.S. command said.
With the four Marines and the soldier's deaths, at least 1,377 members of the U.S. military have died in Iraq, according to an Associated Press count. If all 31 dead in the crash are confirmed to be military personnel, the count would rise to 1,408.
The previous single deadliest incident for U.S. troops was also a helicopter crash: In November 2004, two Black Hawk helicopters collided while trying to avoid ground fire, killing 17 servicemembers. Earlier that month, a Chinook transport helicopter was shot down by shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missile near Fallujah, killing 16 American soldiers and wounding 26.
The U.S. military has lost at least 33 helicopters since the start of the war, including at least 20 brought down by hostile fire, according to a study by the Brookings Institution.
Previously, the most Americans killed in one day came on March 23, 2003, when 28 troops were killed in various incidents during the U.S. military's drive to take Baghdad and topple Saddam Hussein. Bush declared major combat over on May 1, 2003, but fighting has continued.
Last month, a suicide bomb exploded at a mess tent in a base near Mosul, killing 22 people including 14 U.S. soldiers and three American contractors.
With only days before the election, guerrillas carried out a string of attacks Wednesday targeting political groups and voting sites.
A suicide bomber detonated a vehicle packed with explosives at the offices of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the town of Sinjar, just outside Mosul, killing or wounding at least 20 people, said KDP official Mahdi al-Harki.
Earlier in the day, gunmen opened fire with machine guns on the local headquarters of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan and the Communist Party in the city of Baqouba, north of Baghdad, killing a traffic policeman. The KDP and PUK are the two largest Kurdish groups in Iraq and have formed a coalition along with other Kurdish groups to run in the election.
Insurgents set off three car bombs in rapid succession in the town of Riyadh, north of Baghdad, killing at least five people — including three policemen.
Four American soldiers were injured in a car bombing Wednesday in Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, the U.S. command said. Another car bomb targeted a multinational forces convoy on the road to Baghdad's international airport, injuring four soldiers, the command said.
The attack temporarily closed the airport road, one of the country's most dangerous. Up to four mortar shells exploded Wednesday near a police station in the northern Baghdad suburb of Sabaa al-Bor, injuring at least one Iraqi.
A Web site statement, purportedly from al-Qaida in Iraq, said it carried out the attack on the airport road, claiming that the targets were Americans.
The group also warned Iraqis to stay away from the polls Sunday. It said the Americans were organizing "fraudulent elections" and that Iraqi troops were protecting "the Jews and the Christians."
"The enemies of God will see that death is their destiny and failure their ally," the group said. "Oh people, be careful. Be careful not to be near the centers of infidelity and vice, the polling centers ... Don't blame us but blame yourselves" if harmed." The statement's authenticity could not be verified.
In new attacks, two schools slated to be used as polling stations were bombed overnight. A ground floor classroom in one of the buildings, a preparatory school for girls, was littered with broken glass and its main entrance was blackened and clogged with debris.
Al-Arabiya television broadcast a videotape showing three men identified by insurgents as election workers who were kidnapped in Mosul. The satellite station said the three were abducted by the Nineveh Mujahedeen, which threatened to attack polling stations on election day.
U.S. troops and insurgents also clashed in the city of Ramadi, west of Baghdad, in fighting that doctors said killed on Iraqi.
This post contains excerpts from the original article which can be read at: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=1&u=/ap/200501
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