<font color=green> What's so very interesting is how Bush said the war was won on 1 May when it wasn't. That's how you conservatives get to feed yourself lies. The war is not f*cking won.....not even close!!
And tell me, Ole Wise One, why couldn't governor Bush make a pit stop and see his troops in Iraq? Why the cheap f*cking flyover? Blair, the liberal, went and saw all 16k of his troops in Iraq. Actually, stood with them and spoke.
You conservatives are chickensh*t, that's why! Its really easy for you to send soldiers in to fight your dirty little wars but you're too 'yeller' to risk your own precious hide. Excuse me, while I go projectile vomit!!
BTW, where are those f*cking WMD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <font color=black>
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A Day After Bush Assurances, 10 U.S. Soldiers Hurt in Iraq
By AMY WALDMAN
BAGHDAD, Iraq, July 3 — A day after President Bush asserted that coalition forces in Iraq were prepared to deal with any security threat, American troops came under attack again today, with 10 soldiers wounded in three separate incidents.
<font color=red>"We're still at war,"<font color=black> Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez of the Army, the commander of coalition forces in Iraq, said in a news conference today. <font color=red>While saying that the attacks did not appear to be centrally or even regionally coordinated, he asserted that there had been an "increase in sophistication of the explosive devices used" against American forces.<font color=black>
In a strategy apparently designed to undermine the resistance, the American administrator of Iraq, L. Paul Bremer III, announced this afternoon that the State Department was offering a reward of up to $25 million for either the capture of Saddam Hussein or information confirming his death. The reward for similar information about Mr. Hussein's sons, Uday and Qusay, is $15 million apiece.
"Until we know for sure, their names will continue to cast a shadow of fear over this country," Mr. Bremer said in his weekly address to the Iraqi people.
The $25 million reward for Mr. Hussein is the same amount offered for Osama bin Laden, the leader of Al Qaeda.
This morning's attacks occurred in diverse locations: a Sunni area west of Baghdad that staunchly supported the former regime, a Shia neighborhood in Baghdad and the center of the city.
In the Baghdad neighborhood of Kadhimiya, a soldier from the First Armored Division on foot patrol at 2:30 a.m. local time was wounded after a gunman opened fire. The soldiers returned fire, killing the gunman and wounding a 6-year-old boy with him, according to an American military spokesman.
In the city of Ramadi, about 65 miles west of Baghdad, six soldiers were wounded when their two-vehicle convoy drove over an improvised explosive device at 6:30 a.m. The city's Sunni Muslim residents were among the core of Saddam Hussein's base of support, serving as army officers and officials in his government.
Ramadi has become a center of resistance to the American-led occupation. It is only about 30 miles west of Falluja, where an explosion at a Sunni mosque killed at least six people on Monday night. A coalition investigation blamed the explosion on a bombmaking class being held in a building adjacent to the mosque, but many residents accused the Americans of firing a missile into the mosque and promised revenge against American troops.
In Baghdad, just before 10 a.m. local time, a man on foot fired a rocket-propelled grenade at a three-vehicle military convoy moving down Haifa Street, a busy thoroughfare in central Baghdad. One Humvee was struck, wounding three soldiers, witnesses and a military spokesman said.
Witnesses also said that in response, soldiers in one of the other vehicles opened fire indiscriminately, seriously wounding, and possibly killing, at least one Iraqi driver nearby. Blood pooled next to the slain driver's blue Volkswagen Passat soon after the attack.
<font color=red>The attack suggested that the urban warfare that had so concerned military planners before the fall of the Saddam Hussein regime was materializing in unexpected forms. The attack against the three-vehicle convoy on Haifa Street was at least the second rocket-propelled grenade assault in broad daylight in Baghdad this week.<font color=black>
In both cases, the attackers escaped. Whether out of fear or sympathy for their cause, bystanders and witnesses have done nothing to help coalition forces apprehend attackers.
On Wednesday, President Bush challenged Iraqis who were attacking American-led forces and said the assaults would not cause the United States to leave prematurely.
"There are some who feel like — that the conditions are such that they can attack us there," Mr. Bush said. "My answer is, bring them on. We've got the force necessary to deal with the security situation."
Soldiers who arrived at the scene of the rocket-propelled grenade attack in Baghdad this morning crouched by their vehicles or pointed their weapons at the high-rise apartment buildings lining that section of the street. In the distance, an AK-47 rifle sounded.
A crowd of people, meanwhile, gathered around the destroyed Humvee and looted it, taking whatever they could remove. Children and adults climbed on top, stomping on it and chanting, "God bless Mohammad!" Then someone set the vehicle on fire and the crowd backed away, watching it slowly burn. Children hurled rocks at the blaze.
More American reinforcements arrived to clear the crowd and guard the vehicle. An armored vehicle drove through and paused, training its gun first on the crowd and then on the apartments above. Helicopters circled low overhead.
Some bystanders expressed support for the attack. "All men should fight," Nidhal Latif Tawfiq said. "If I wasn't a woman, I would go to that car," she said of the Humvee surrounded by looters. "I have no job."
The crowd's ire seemed to be fueled by a lack of jobs and electric power in Baghdad — most parts of the city still have no more than 8 to 10 hours of electricity a day.
"It's not because of Saddam people are doing these things," one man said. "It is because there's no government, there's no electricity, and just false promises."
A 12-year-old boy, Ghanim Hamid, carrying part of a military food ration taken from the Humvee, asked if it were true that the Americans were withholding water and power from the Iraqis because the troops were being shot at.
"Get out from our country," someone had scrawled on a wall nearby. It was written in English, so there was no mistaking its meaning. |
