Politics > Politics-USA > "My fellow Americans, major combat operations in Iraq have ended." 12.28.2003
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"My fellow Americans, major combat operations in Iraq have ended." 12.28.2003 |
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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There have been three American GIs killed today, with no count on the
wounded, who knows how many Iraqis died today, they don't seem to count in
this war.
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Iraq Bomb Blasts Kill 2 U.S. Soldiers, 2 Children
Sun Dec 28,11:13 AM ETAdd Top Stories - Reuters to My Yahoo!
By Andrew Marshall
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Guerrillas detonated a powerful bomb in a busy Baghdad
shopping district on Sunday, killing a U.S. soldier and two Iraqi children,
and another U.S. soldier died in an attack on a convoy west of the capital.
The ambushes came a day after coordinated suicide bomb, mortar and
machinegun attacks in the holy city of Kerbala killed 19 people -- five
Bulgarian and two Thai soldiers and 12 Iraqis -- the deadliest strike on
foreign troops since the capture of Saddam Hussein.
The Baghdad attack, which targeted U.S. vehicles driving through the Karada
shopping area, wounded five American soldiers, eight members of the Iraqi
Civil Defense Corps and an Iraqi translator.
"A soldier from the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment and two Iraqi children
standing nearby were killed when the IED (improvised explosive device)
detonated as a convoy was passing," military spokesman Captain Jason Beck
said.
"At this stage we don't know how serious the injuries are."
Beck said the explosion occurred at around 10:15 a.m. (2:15 a.m. EST) when
the streets of Karada, a bustling area of shops and stalls, would have been
crammed with people.
Northeast of the flashpoint town of Falluja, another bomb attack on a convoy
killed one soldier from the 82nd Airborne Division and wounded three, the
U.S. Army said.
MOUNTING DEATH TOLL
The attacks raised to 212 the number of U.S. soldiers killed in action since
Washington declared major combat over on May 1. Attacks appear to be
continuing at a consistent pace despite the capture of former dictator
Saddam Hussein on December 13.
Bulgaria's Defense Ministry said a fifth Bulgarian soldier died from his
wounds on Sunday after a suicide car bomb attack on Saturday that destroyed
the Bulgarian military headquarters in Kerbala and wounded 27 soldiers.
But Sofia said it remained committed to its pledge to help Washington fight
global terrorism. "We once again declare our firm will to fight all attempts
to destroy the values of humanity and civilization all over the world,"
Deputy Defense Minister Ilko Dimitrov told a press conference.
Thailand also said it had no plans to withdraw medical and engineering
troops from Iraq. "As of today, there is no change in our presence there as
the morale of our troops remains high," Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra
said in Bangkok.
Washington, facing pressure at home over Iraq combat deaths, is urging
allies to contribute forces to help counter the insurgency before a planned
handover of sovereignty to Iraqis in the summer.
About 15 Japanese military officials arrived in Kuwait on Saturday to
prepare for sending troops to Iraq. They are due to meet members of the
U.S.-led coalition over the arrival of more than 150 personnel and transport
planes in January.
IRAQI OFFICIALS TARGETED
In the Kurdish city of Arbil in northern Iraq, gunmen killed three
bodyguards of Jawamer Atia, deputy director-general of security at the local
interior ministry, during a bid to assassinate him on Sunday, the city's
police chief said.
Five people, including Atia, were wounded in the attack.
Near Mahmudiya, south of Baghdad, gunmen opened fire on a car carrying
foreign contractors working with the Ministry of Electricity, killing two
Iraqi security guards, police said. A British official said a British
contractor was shot in the leg in the attack and was recovering in hospital.
Officials cooperating with occupying forces have been frequently targeted by
guerrillas. On December 24 a car bomb at the Arbil interior ministry
building killed four people.
A prominent lawyer working with coalition officials was shot dead outside
his home in the northern city of Mosul on Friday, police said, a day after a
tribal leader and member of a U.S.-appointed local council was assassinated
in the city.
Continuing an offensive aimed at stifling widespread guerrilla assaults,
U.S. troops seized 10 people in overnight raids in Baquba, site of recent
attacks against them.
A U.S. officer said the detainees had joined pro-Saddam rallies in the city,
38 miles north of Baghdad.
A spokeswoman for the U.S. 4th Infantry Division said raids north of the
capital had netted about 300 rockets, similar to weapons guerrillas used to
pound Baghdad hotels and embassies in attacks that sowed fear across the
city on Christmas Day. (Additional reporting by Seb Walker in Mosul, Janjira
Pinthongkum in Bangkok and Tsvetelia Ilieva in Sofia)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&e=2&u=/nm/20031228/ts_nm/iraq_dc
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"From the brief time that we did spend occupying Iraqi territory
after the war, I am certain that had we taken all of Iraq, we would
have been like the dinosaur in the tar pit - we would still be there,
and we, not the United Nations, would be bearing the costs of
the occupation. This is a burden I am sure the beleaguered
American taxpayer would not have been happy to take on."
- Norman Schwarzkopf, from his 1993 autobiography, "It Doesn't
Take a Hero."
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| Title: Re: "My fellow Americans, major combat operations in Iraq have ended." 12.28.2003 |
28 Dec 2003 03:20:29 PM |
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"NotBush2004" <notbush@whitehouse.gov> wrote in message
news:457d757dba7ea2cd5e68a0dcce832601@news.teranews.com...
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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There have been three American GIs killed today, with no count on the
wounded, who knows how many Iraqis died today, they don't seem to count in
this war.
What makes you think that?
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| User: "NotBush2004" |
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| Title: Re: "My fellow Americans, major combat operations in Iraq have ended." 12.28.2003 |
28 Dec 2003 04:22:25 PM |
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"Bob" <no@email.address> wrote in message
news:zQHHb.4759$Uj.481@bignews4.bellsouth.net...
"NotBush2004" <notbush@whitehouse.gov> wrote in message
news:457d757dba7ea2cd5e68a0dcce832601@news.teranews.com...
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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There have been three American GIs killed today, with no count on the
wounded, who knows how many Iraqis died today, they don't seem to count
in
this war.
What makes you think that?
Read the article. The Bush administration also pressed the interim Iraqi
government to quit counting civilian casualties and to withhold data on
those already counted.
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http://www.costofwar.com/
http://www.iraqbodycount.net/
http://lunaville.org/warcasualties/Summary.aspx
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| Title: Re: "My fellow Americans, major combat operations in Iraq have ended."12.28.2003 |
29 Dec 2003 05:00:34 PM |
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Bob wrote:
"NotBush2004" <notbush@whitehouse.gov> wrote in message
news:457d757dba7ea2cd5e68a0dcce832601@news.teranews.com...
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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There have been three American GIs killed today, with no count on the
wounded, who knows how many Iraqis died today, they don't seem to count in
this war.
What makes you think that?
What makes you think he can think?
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As Orwell pointed out long ago, pacifism in the face of
armed evil is equivalent to a blind worship of force.
For those of our race - the historic victims of so many
causes - it would be disastrous to make the same
mistake twice, and entrust our children's fate to the
hands of these sad and complicitous pacifists.
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| Title: Re: "My fellow Americans, major combat operations in Iraq have ended."12.28.2003 |
29 Dec 2003 04:59:07 PM |
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NotBush2004 wrote:
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.
What is it that you do not understand in "major combat
operations in Iraq have ended"?
He did not need to tell and intelligent people (I guess
that excludes you) that there would still be extended
mop up operations but those are not "major combat" ops
but rather small unit policing activities.
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As Orwell pointed out long ago, pacifism in the face of
armed evil is equivalent to a blind worship of force.
For those of our race - the historic victims of so many
causes - it would be disastrous to make the same
mistake twice, and entrust our children's fate to the
hands of these sad and complicitous pacifists.
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