Suicide attack kills 28 army recruits in Iraq

Tuesday 15th July, 03:56 PM JST

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SuperLib at 09:14 PM JST - 15th July

Seems like an overstatement to me.
Madverts at 09:32 PM JST - 15th July

Overstatement?

I think that was the level of violence claim. Or Mission Accomplished. One or t'other. Either way, the wanton destruction of human life and what amounts to a criminal level of Denial continues to rule the day...
SushiSake3 at 10:18 PM JST - 15th July

I'm just wondering why people like you, Superlib, supported this war.
romulus3 at 10:38 PM JST - 15th July

wow, what a disgusting hell hole Iraq is. 40 dead here and there and more injured. killing without reservation or conscience. rather than have all this random collateral damage going on for the next 100 years, the US should just pummel the place into the ground and appoint a ruthless dictator to run things. McCain sounds ideal. They are not bogged down because of a lack of power, they are being bogged down by media and politics. I say just smash the place to smithereens and be done with it. if anyone wants to argue, they wont coz you already made your point....

"I am the heavy weight champ, and the only one. the rest of you chumps are feather or light. mess with me and you are the next Iraq. stop trading with me and you are the next Iraq. Switch from dollars to Euros and you are the next Iraq".

They lost all their awe by being such a nice country at war in Iraq. If they hit them as hard as they could, Iran would be shi""ing their pants right now instead of playing up.

The US needs to take it up a few notches if they want to win. Anyway, war sucks and war dead is awful. Nothing will ever change in our life time. The US has weapons like nukes but without the lasting radiation at an implementation stage. Lasers like star wars and all. My bet is that these will be deployed to Iraq and used soon. I guess its gonna be a Green war.
SushiSake3 at 10:42 PM JST - 15th July

Romulus, are you a John McCain plant designed to stir up the rabid, unthinking chattering U.S. underclass ahead of the U.S. elections?

Sure seems that way. :-)
Betzee at 10:55 PM JST - 15th July

The position of the Obama campaign is that he will begin removing combat troops from Iraq immediately upon taking office, a process which will be completed within 16 months.

McCain predicted back in March that most American troops would be home by 2013 at which time Iraq would be a functioning democracy subject to only “spasmodic” episodes of violence.

Neither candidate indicated how he had arrived at such an arbitrary time table. It won't be the situation on the ground which determines when the US leaves Iraq but the situation at home. A deeply in debt country with a floundering economy cannot afford an open-ended occupation.
Madverts at 10:56 PM JST - 15th July

"A deeply in debt country with a floundering economy cannot afford an open-ended occupation."

The US has become occupied?

Canada?
SushiSake3 at 11:24 PM JST - 15th July

Betzee, excellent post.

"It won't be the situation on the ground which determines when the US leaves Iraq but the situation at home. A deeply in debt country with a floundering economy cannot afford an open-ended occupation."

Do you thnk that America's so-called 'moral obligation' to 'fix what they broke' is still valid.
Madverts at 12:17 AM JST - 16th July

willi,

"this has nothing to do with the US being there or not"

Uhm, so the daily suicide bombings that weren't happening before the US invaded are just happening because.....?

Heh, the Denial just get's more hilarious.

"The Jihad does not stop before Shariah is the law of the land."

Yeah, but you can't dig up and re-animate the secular dictator that kept the bastards in line, can ya?
SushiSake3 at 12:23 AM JST - 16th July

williB - "this has nothing to do with the US being there or not"

OMG ROFL!!!!!!!!!
Madverts at 01:13 AM JST - 16th July

Before long it will be "this was never about WMD's".

Oh, wait...
Smythe at 04:57 AM JST - 16th July

The loss of the American troops will hit a lot of people back home in the USA along with fellow troops in Iraq along with those in Afghanistan.

Unfortunately it is now knowen the reason the USA went at taking over Iraq was not WMD or the majority of the Iraq people wanting a Democratic Government. It was for OIL.

Fortunately the USA was in such a hurry to hit Iraq that they did not wait for a vote, in their favour, by the UN. Otherwise troops from most countries of the UN would be not only in Afghanistan but Iraq as well.

Thankfully our Cdn troops are only in Afghanistan lacking the help over over 4,000 or more other troops from France, Germany, Holland, Denmark & such. Plus the Cdns do NOT have choppers to transport troops AND it is troops being killed by land mines.

Wars like this are stupidity for you cannot beat tribes on their home land & the USA has knowen this since the days of Korea with some UN troops.
rjd_jr at 08:09 AM JST - 16th July

The sad part is, I think many Americans have simply become lackadaisical about what is going on in Iraq. I'm not saying people don't care about the troops or their deaths, but with the grinding economy and other issues, as well as Iraq war in its 10th year, sad but it's not the first thing on people's minds.

Bring them home.
WilliB at 11:07 AM JST - 16th July

Smyte:

" The loss of the American troops "

These are Iraqi troops, not a American troops. Get your facts in order.
Madverts at 05:43 PM JST - 16th July

"Get your facts in order."

Neh? You said early on that the current trouble in Iraq had nothing to do with the US presence!!