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Ceasefire, ceasefire! Negotiations, Negotiations!
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mommy mommy I want to go home...
About 10 Bulgarian soldiers ask to leave Iraq
SOFIA, April 13 (Reuters) - About 10 Bulgarian soldiers based in the flashpoint city of Kerbala in southern Iraq have asked if they can go home, officials said on Tuesday, the latest example of the troops' unhappiness with conditions in Iraq.
On Monday, soldiers' parents appealed to President Georgi Parvanov to have Bulgaria's 450-strong battalion withdrawn from the city, where it came under repeated attack last week from militiamen loyal to Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.
"Around 10 servicemen of the Bulgarian contingent in Kerbala have asked to be relieved," defence ministry spokeswoman Roumyana Strugarova said.
The conditions facing the new NATO member's troops in Iraq have become a sensitive issue in this Balkan country since last week's attacks, but had already caused concern previously.
More than 60 soldiers quit the battalion before it left home for Iraq to replace the original peacekeeping unit, although the government had increased the troops' Iraq pay by about one-third because of the risks of serving there.
Five Bulgarian soldiers have been wounded in clashes since the start of April, and last December a truck bomb attack killed five and wounded 64.
The Amerikkkans are cowards and the resistance in fallujah has proved this.
The Amerikkkans have been shelling from distance and killed 600 women and children this is known.
Faced with hand to hand combat the Amerikkkans are afraid of death ceasefire ceasefire indeed what else would you expect from a so called superpower whose supply lines where cut!
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The Amerikkkans are cowards and the resistance in fallujah has proved this.
The Amerikkkans have been shelling from distance and killed 600 women and children this is known.
Faced with hand to hand combat the Amerikkkans are afraid of death ceasefire ceasefire indeed what else would you expect from a so called superpower whose supply lines where cut!
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Not true. The USA has used their military might as they should by protecting their soldiers. The general USA soldier is no coward, and I would expect them to aquaint themselves very good if they do happen to come up against hand-to-hand combat. In cases like these, discipline counts for a lot and that they have more than the Iraqi resistance.
BTW. Any normal person is afraid of death, also you....
Old man i am not afraid of death. As a muslim death is inevitable you can die on your bed or you can die on battlefield!
Secondly americans are cowards if you stop watching the Fox news crap and actually analyse the situation, the majority of the 600 killed where women and children in fallujah is that what you call discipline!
“…The doctors are afraid of the Americans - that they will shoot them even in the hospitals.”
“On the way to Baghdad I saw bodies in the car. I couldn’t help them because the Americans were shooting everyone.”
The words of people who have been able to escpae the American slaughter of hundreds upon hundreds of civilians in Falluja. Now this is what they say about the American occupiers…
*** “Before it was a small, specific group that fought the USA,” he says. “Now it is every family. They all want revenge.”***
For a year the US tried to find various methods of calming down Fallujah. Ultimately people loose patience. The attack and torching of convoys and civilian contractors was certainly provacative and intentional. Dragging bodies around and hanging them from a bridge sort of leads you to beleive that there are some bad guys there who really don't give a crap about the innocents, merely thier martyrdom.
The insurgents have been looking forward to this day, and have tried everything to provoke it. I am happy that someone on the governing council is working hard to find a solution.
A tense cease-fire in Fallujah, Iraq has held this week between San Diego-based Marines who have surrounded the city, and insurgents inside. Despite the calm, Marines on the front lines are still fighting and dying from daily attacks. So far, at least two dozen men from Camp Pendleton have died in combat this month in Iraq. Those who knew the men are finding they don’t have much time to mourn their loss. KPBS reporter Eric Niiler is in Fallujah with the First Battalion, Fifth Marine Regiment…
***The Marines are trained to kill their armed opponents. But in this fight, Marines are also dying. First Battalion, Fifth Regiment has lost more men in the past 10 days, than the unit has since the war began last year. Gunnery Sergeant Darrell Hill of San Diego lost two men from sniper fire. He says he became emotional. ***
Letter from a Marine commander in Fallujah to families at home. Sounds more pi$$ed-off than grieving.
"Early in the morning, we exchanged gunfire with a group of insurgents without significant loss. As morning progressed, the enemy fed more men into the fight and we responded with stronger force. Unfortunately, this led to injuries as our Marines and sailors started clearing the city block by block. The enemy did not run; they fought us like soldiers. And we destroyed the enemy like only Marines can.
By the end of the evening the local hospital was so full of their dead and wounded that they ran out of space to put them. Your husbands were awesome – all night they stayed at the job of securing the streets and nobody challenged them as the hours wore on. They did not surrender an inch nor did flinch from the next potential threat.
Previous to yesterday, the terrorists thought that we were soft enough to challenge. As of tonight the message is loud and clear that the Marines will not be beaten."
'I'm not a celebrity, I'm a Marine, get me out of here'.
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Well with dozens of their colleagues having perished in just two weeks in Fallujah alone, and hundreds more injured, others elsewhere committing suicide what do you expect?
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*...the US has given up on its demand for the handover of those who killed four American security guards and mutilated their bodies, say senior Iraqis involved in talks in the town. *
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First, they said they would never negotiate with the Fallujah resistance (and Shia resistance in the south), and now they have dropped their earlier demands as well! All they have managed to is slaughter 700 Iraqi civilians in Fallujah, and get 700 of their own troops injured or killed as well, yet after more than two weeks have still not managed to subdue the town.
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Cut out the gunships, helicopter and air support, remove the tanks and superior fire power and the letter will read as follows:
'I'm not a celebrity, I'm a Marine, get me out of here'.
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Why should they cut out these things? Why don't the iraqi terrorists bring out their helicopters and tanks? Oh, that's right, they don't have any! Boohoo.
From what I have read, US soldiers have killed over 700 innocent women and children of Iraq in the last week or two. Why not go the whole hog and kill or capture the people that were acutually responsible for killing the 4 innocent mericans?
Does this mean killing over 700 innocent women and children equals to the revenge for 4 innocent Americans?
You have heard this from where? Most of the killed are terrorists, though I'm sure some innocents got caught in the middle, especialy since the iraqi fighters were using them as human shields.
And yes, the death of 4 americans and the mutilating of their bodies is worth the lives of 400 dead terrorists.
"Cut out the gunships, helicopter and air support, remove the tanks and superior fire power "
yes, these things don't count at all
Newsflash, in every conflict for thousands of years technolgical change has often been the deciding factor. Even without these weapons the Marines are highly trained professional soldiers working as a unit, they would still prevail.