Politics > Politics-USA > "My fellow Americans, major combat operations in Iraq have ended." 11.23.2003 #1
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"My fellow Americans, major combat operations in Iraq have ended." 11.23.2003 #1 |
President Bush proclaimed aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln on
May 1, 2003:
Admiral Kelly, Captain Card (ph), officers and sailors of the USS Abraham
Lincoln, my fellow Americans, major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In
the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed.
http://www.milparts.net/bush-on-uss-lincoln.html
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Attacks on convoys kill 3 U.S. troops
Sunday, November 23, 2003 Posted: 7:24 AM EST (1224 GMT)
BAGHDAD (CNN) -- Three U.S. soldiers were killed Sunday in separate attacks
on their military convoys in Iraq, according to the U.S. military.
Two soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division were killed Sunday when their
convoy came under attack by small arms fire in the northern town of Mosul,
according to a U.S. Army spokesman.
Another U.S. soldier was killed and two were wounded Sunday morning near
Baquba, north of Baghdad, when a military convoy hit a roadside bomb,
according to a spokesman for the 4th Infantry Division.
The wounded soldiers are in a stable condition, the spokesman said.
With the deaths, 429 U.S. troops have been killed in the Iraqi war, 300 from
hostile fire. Since May 1, when President Bush declared the end of major
combat operations, 290 U.S. troops have died, 185 from hostile fire.
No reliable estimate of Iraqi deaths over the course of the conflict is
available. The Associated Press reported an estimated 3,240 civilian Iraqi
deaths between March 20 and April 20, but the AP said the figure was based
on records of only half of Iraq's hospitals and that the actual number was
thought to be significantly higher.
Sunday's attacks came a day after a pair of suicide bombings that killed at
least 18 Iraqis and wounded 30, according to a spokesman for the U.S.-led
coalition.
The bombings occurred at two police stations north of Baghdad, and no
coalition troops were injured in either attack.
Later, a surface-to-air-missile hit a courier plane shortly after it took
off from Baghdad airport, military sources said, but the damaged plane was
able to return to the airport.
Police station bombings
Shortly before 8 a.m. (12 a.m. EST), a suicide car bomber killed at least
nine Iraqis at a police station in Khan Bani Sa'ad, about 12 miles (20
kilometers) north of the Iraqi capital, coalition spokesman Lt. Col. George
Krivo said. At least 10 Iraqi civilians were injured.
The attacker drove a vehicle laden with explosives at high speed into the
station and Iraqi police fired AK-47s at his vehicle, which detonated, said
U.S. Capt. Ryan McCormick of Task Force Thunder.
A huge crater was left in front of the police station where the car bomb
detonated. Three hours after the initial attack, another explosion was
reported near the same police station, wounding at least two children -- one
with a critical head injury -- witnesses told CNN.
At about the same time as the Khan Bani Sa'ad attack, a car bomb hit the
Ba'qubah police station about 50 miles (80 kilometers) north of Baghdad,
killing at least nine Iraqis -- six police and three civilians -- according
to Gen. Ahmed Kadhim Ibrahim, senior deputy interior minister and Iraqi
police chief.
At least 20 Iraqis were injured in the Ba'qubah attack.
Also on Saturday morning, a DHL courier plane landed safely at Baghdad
International Airport after a heat-seeking surface-to-air missile hit one of
its engines, according to military sources at the airport. No one was
injured.
The aircraft had just taken off when it was hit by a SAM-7, sources said. A
fire in one of the engines was extinguished after the plane landed, the
sources said.
A military source said the missile had a one-pound warhead -- not big enough
to bring down a large aircraft, but enough to cause damage.
Missiles have been fired several times at planes approaching the airport.
CNN Baghdad bureau chief Jane Arraf contributed to this report.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/11/23/sprj.irq.main/
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CBS reporter David Martin revealed that weeks before the attacks, the CIA
had warned Bush personally of Osama Bin Laden's intent to use hijacked
planes as missiles. That followed the damaging exposure by The Associated
Press's John Solomon of a pre-9/11 FBI memo from an officer in Phoenix
warning of suspicious Middle Eastern men training at flight schools-a
warning that went unheeded.
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| Title: Re: "My fellow Americans, major combat operations in Iraq have ended." 11.23.2003 #1 |
23 Nov 2003 07:55:12 AM |
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Subject: "My fellow Americans, major combat operations in Iraq have ended."
11.23.2003 #1
From: "NotBush2004"
Date: 11/23/2003 8:09 AM Eastern Standard Time
Message-id: <3fc0b1a4$0$61852$a32e20b9@news.nntpservers.com>
President Bush proclaimed aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln on
May 1, 2003:
'President George W. Bush poses with crewmembers for a photo on the flight deck
of USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) '
The photo was what it was all about. The Commander in chief did not have any
photo's of his military dutry so he needed something for his reelection
campaign. At the present rate the death toll for Iraq will be aoubt 2,000 when
the next ellection occurs. The seriously injured will be about 10,000. What a
shame for so many to be harmed by such a stupid stunt. There was zero reason
that we could not have waited to start the war. The war was a grand stand
photo op turned deadly.
Doing Insurance business in the Garden State
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