At least five US soldiers were killed today in the deadliest single incident against troops in Iraq in two years. The five were killed at “Camp Loyalty,” a US military forward operating base in the city of Baghdad, not far from Sadr City.
Iraqi security officials say that at least six missiles were fired against the base, and hit near the living quarters. The US confirmed the deaths but provided no additional information on the attack.
It is so far unclear who was responsible for the attacks, and while it is possibly retaliation from al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) for one of any number of recent incidents, the base’s close proximity to the Shi’ite slums in Sadr City will likely also lay suspicion at supporters of cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, who late last month organized a march demanding US troops end their occupation of Iraq.
The presence of US troops in Iraq has been hugely controversial, and it is doubly so for those operating within the cities. Though the US made a big deal of “withdrawing from the cities” and of ending the “combat mission,” operations within cities and combat both continue, and if US officials have their way will for the foreseeable future.
I THOUGHT ALL ALONG THAT THE WEST INTERFERENCE IN HOW OTHER COUNTRIES SHOULD GOVERN ITSELF BASED ON THE SO CALLED DEMOCRACY IS NOT WORKING AND WILL NEVER WORK DUE TO THE VARIOUS FACTIONS ,TRIBES AND DIFFERENRT RELEGIONS SO WHAT HAD BEEN ACHIEVED IN IRAQ IS MORE BLOODSHED THAN EVER WAS WHEN SADAM WAS IN POWER. MY PREDICTIONS THE SAME WILL HAPPEN IN LYBIA AND IN YEMEN . REMOVING ONE DICTATOR AND REPLACING HIM WITH A DEMOCRATIC DICTATOR IS NOT THE SOLUTION ESPCIALLY WHEN IT IS SUPPORTED BY THE WEST MAINLY AMERICA BRITAIN AND NOW FRANCE I DO WONER WHY?
Heeeeeeeeeeey, wait a minute! This must be wrong. First, 'we' won in Iraq. Killed them all, destroyed the country, stole their oil, spread demokracy, mission accomplished and all that. After which, 'we' left. All troops are gone, there are only 'sub-contractors' left there and that, of course, is only because they insisted. So, how could 5 US soldiers get killed in a place where they aren't?
What a freakin' joke!
Is this why the Politicians are fighting to stay in Iraq against the wishes o the majority of Iraqi's?
So that more American soldiers can be killed?
Maybe if a few sons and daughters of US Congressmen and their families are sent to Iraq they may think better of staying where they are not wanted.
…that would be assuming that any pol actually cares about his own children. This is a false assumption. These are pure sociopaths. They will gladly give their children's blood to further their own political careers. Please don't assume that these pols have any human empathy for anything living thing or ANYONE including their own children. To think otherwise would be a delusion.
Good, we need more of this if we ever hope to stop our aggression in the Middle East.
American soildiers are still there because "there's money in it".
Do not put it past Maliki to stage this little incident – his arch-rival Sadr gets blamed, the US military convinces the US Congress that they NEED to stay longer in order to root out these insurgents (and protect the oil fields and other US "interests", and Maliki is able to convince HIS congress that the US military needs to stay to protect them from Sadr (and Iran!) and protect the oil fields (only source of revenue for Iraq – other than the billions of $$$ the USG gives them, of course).
Except for those who died and will die for nothing, as they surely will, it's all theater.
and stay out!
Seeing how Iraq had no WMDs and was invaded, and Libya had no WMDs and now is being reduced to rubble, if I were Iran I would be going full bore to get me about 50 nukes. The day will come and Israel will not be able to terrorize the world. It will be a wonderful day indeed. Then if Israel wants to invade Iran let it do it itself. Why should Americans die for Israeli interests?
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the base is a sitting duck with a 4 lane hyway with heavy traffic within a few yards….the soldiers are not active outside the base..their hands are tied…watch out this is no way to put our troops in danger………..who makes idiotic decisions like sacrificing our men