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Thursday, November 20, 2003

War News for November 20, 2003 Bring 'em on: Car bomb at pro-US political office in Kirkuk kills five, wounds 30. Bring 'em on: One US soldier killed, two wounded by roadside bomb near Ramadi. Bring 'em on: Insurgents attack convoy near Samarra. Ten insurgents killed in firefight. Bring 'em on: Iraqi policeman killed in attack on Jordanian embassy in Baghdad. Bring 'em on: Pro-US politician assassinated in Basra. Bring 'em on: Three US soldiers wounded in roadside bomb attack in central Baghdad. Bring 'em on: Car bomb attack on home of US-appointed councilman in Ramadi kills two. Bring 'em on: Roadside bomb wounds guard near Basra. "Four or five incendiary devices are detonated near coalition forces in the Basra area every week, but yesterday's incident was the first for two weeks in which anyone was wounded." Bring 'em on: US positions near Khaldiyah attacked with RPG and mortar fire. (Last paragraph of this story.) Bush' War is straining the US Army. Two children killed in clasrrom explosion in Karbala. Insurgents say they're not fighting for Saddam Husein. "I am fighting for my country -- not Saddam Hussein -- to get rid of the infidels. Very few people are fighting for him. They gave up on him at the end of the war." Commentary Opinion: Honor our fallen soldiers, don't hide them. "As long as we don’t see their coffins, the president apparently believes, maybe we’ll forget about them. He’s wrong. We won’t forget their sacrifice. And we won’t forget how many young Americans never came home from a war that, to this day, President Bush is still trying to find a reason for — just like he’s still trying to find weapons of mass destruction, yellow-cake uranium, long-range missiles, bomb-carrying drones, Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein." Opinion: Bush plays politics with war. "This is the mess we find ourselves in six months after the president pranced about in a flight suit on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln..." Casualty Reports Local story: Utah soldier killed in Iraq. Local story: California soldier killed in Iraq.

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