May 07 - third-deadliest month for US troops. The surge is super!

[mejusthavingfun]

Posted: 5/31/07 at 4:33pm

Do these numbers mean anything to anyone working in government today? I wonder how many injured? This needs to STOP!



May is third-deadliest month for US troops in Iraq

Associated Press - May 31, 2007 12:13 PM ET

BAGHDAD (AP) - At least 122 American troops have been killed in Iraq this month, making May the third-deadliest month for US forces since the 2003 invasion.

[lildogs]

Posted: 5/31/07 at 4:41pm

They're scared to death of losing that oil and all those big pretty buildings they contracted and didn't finish that don't work anyway--it's not like our rep can be any more in the toilet.

That was Carlin-esque huh?

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 5/31/07 at 4:49pm

Well, with alleged leadership like this:

As we noted the other day, we've heard two reports from what appears to have been the same visit some Texas-based bigwigs paid to George W. Bush recently.

In the president's version of the story, "a bunch of our buddies from Texas" visited the White House and asked him, "Man, how come you're still standing?" And he told them: "I'm inspired by doing this job. I believe strongly in the decisions I have made. I firmly believe that we are responding to this initial challenge of the 21st century in proper fashion."

In the version of the story posted by the Nelson Report, some "big money players up from Texas" managed to "get out exactly one question" before Bush went off on "an extended whine, a rant, actually, about [how] no one understands him, the critics are all messed up, if only people would see what he's doing things would be OK, etc."

Now, as Think Progress reports, there's a third version of the story. In the version set forth today by columnist Georgie Anne Geyer in the Dallas Morning News, friends of the president from Texas were "shocked recently to find him nearly wild-eyed, thumping himself on the chest three times while he repeated, 'I am the president!' He also made it clear he was setting Iraq up so his successor could not get out of 'our country's destiny.'"

-- Tim Grieve, salon.com

[lildogs]

Posted: 5/31/07 at 5:13pm

Then he's just as crazy as the Ayatollah...at least Saddam could run Iraq--more than I can say for Bushie.

If he feels so strongly about this, he should send his family to Iraq to fufill our country's destiny--wtf?? That's crazy suicide bomber talk. And it's not like his daughters are paragons of virtue who are doing important work here. Send the Petticoat Junction version of Paris and Nicole over there and see how long we stay in with rich white kids fighting.