Surge

11:58 pm EST January 20th, 2007 | News | 14 Comments

More lives are thrown on to George Bush’s legacy.

All 13 people aboard a U.S. military helicopter Saturday were killed when it went down northeast of Baghdad, the U.S. military said.

Later in the day, five U.S. soldiers were killed and three wounded when the Karbala Provincial Joint Coordination Center was attacked by an armed militia group using grenades, small arms and indirect fire, the military said.

The helicopter crash victims were described as passengers and crew members. Their identities were being withheld pending notification of next of kin, the military said in a statement.

These people are dying for no reason. End this war.

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14 Responses to “Surge”

  1. pedromd07 says:
    January 21, 2007 at 8:07 am

    All 13 people aboard a U.S. military helicopter Saturday were killed when it went down northeast of Baghdad, the U.S. military said.

    Call Pelosi, tell the her to take away all those dangerous aircraft the military is flying around in. Damn republicans, what, do they want someone to get hurt or something…?

  2. Nimrod Gently says:
    January 21, 2007 at 8:47 am

    DOCTOR PEDRO, MD. New name, same personality.

  3. fd10801 says:
    January 21, 2007 at 3:34 pm

    N G :: same name, no response

  4. Nimrod Gently says:
    January 21, 2007 at 6:17 pm

    Actually, that was a response. “Response” doesn’t imply saying anything useful.

    Not that it’s worth saying anything useful about Pedro’s bollocks up there.

  5. fd10801 says:
    January 21, 2007 at 7:33 pm

    “Response” doesn’t imply saying anything useful
    You don’t need to tell me twice — I’ve been reading you for a long time.

  6. Nimrod Gently says:
    January 21, 2007 at 8:15 pm

    You have the wit of Bruce Tinsley.

  7. fd10801 says:
    January 21, 2007 at 10:17 pm

    Why, thank you, N G!

    BTW, Oliver, what is with the American body count, when the enemy body count is verboten?

    Don’t want to hear about the bad guys being killed?

    Or just celebrating helicopter accidents?

  8. Dugger says:
    January 22, 2007 at 10:11 am

    And you lose the body count argument – never forget.

  9. Nimrod Gently says:
    January 22, 2007 at 10:50 am

    Hooray for false equivalency!

  10. moonbat monitor says:
    January 22, 2007 at 11:42 am

    Oliver, you are right. If Bush hadn’t went forward with the surge, that helicopter wouldn’g have crashed.

    It’s all Bush’s fault.

    Oliver, you are a genius.

  11. moonbat monitor says:
    January 22, 2007 at 11:42 am

    Oliver, you are right. If Bush hadn’t went forward with the surge, that helicopter wouldn’g have crashed.

    It’s all Bush’s fault.

    Oliver, you are a genius.

  12. Duros62 says:
    January 22, 2007 at 12:34 pm

    What exactly does “indirect fire” mean?

  13. Dugger says:
    January 22, 2007 at 5:41 pm

    Semi-blind fire – usually guided by a third party.

  14. Duros62 says:
    January 24, 2007 at 6:20 pm

    You were saying?

    The Iraqi official, who also declined to be identified because details had not been made public, said the four were shot in the back of the head while they were on the ground. The crash occurred in an old neighborhood of narrow streets on the east bank of the Tigris River, north of the central city.