41 US Soldiers Killed In Iraq In 8 Days

What a crying shame. I cannot begin the imagine hte pain and suffering the families and friends of these brave soliders must be going through right now.
Watching the news and their leader still justifying this illegial campaign, while the honest and brave citizens who desired to protect their nation are killed in a foreign land doing nothing compared to what they signed up for.

These people die, and people still say we are doing the right thing.
I fail to see why these men should of died just so corporations can make money.

Im sure glad people find it justified that companies like this

The top profiteers after 9/11 were the CEOs of United Technologies ($200 million), General Dynamics ($65 million), Lockheed Martin ($50 million), and Halliburton ($49 million). Other firms where CEO pay the last four years added up to $25 million to $45 million were Textron, Engineered Support Systems, Computer Sciences, Alliant Techsystems, Armor Holding, Boeing, Health Net, ITT Industries, Northrop Grumman, Oshkosh Truck, URS, and Raytheon.

profit AMAZINGLY, while people such as this:

08-Apr-2007 6 | US: 6 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Baghdad Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET BaghdadHostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET BaghdadHostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US Sergeant Adam P. Kennedy Diwaniyah - hostile fire - indirect fire
US Sergeant Todd A. Singleton Baghdad Hostile - IED, small arms fire
US 1st Lieutenant Phillip I. Neel Balad - Salah Ad Din Hostile - grenade

07-Apr-2007 5 | US: 5 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Diyala Province Hostile - hostile fire - explosion
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Diyala Province Hostile - hostile fire - explosion
US Private 1st Class Levi K. Hoover Diyala Province Hostile - explosion
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Diyala Province Hostile - hostile fire - explosion
US Commander Philip Murphy-Sweet Baghdad Hostile - IED attack

06-Apr-2007 9 | US: 9 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Petty Officer 1st Class Joseph A. McSween Kirkuk - At-Ta'mim hostile fire
US Petty Officer 2nd Class Curtis R. Hall Kirkuk - At-Ta'mim hostile fire
US Chief Petty Officer Gregory J. Billiter Kirkuk - At-Ta'mim Hostile fire
US Private 1st Class Jay S. Cajimat Baghdad Hostile - IED attack
US Petty Officer 2nd Class Joseph C. Schwedler Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire
US Private 1st Class Daniel A. Fuentes BaghdadHostile - IED attack
US Private Damian Lopez Rodriguez Baghdad Hostile IED attack
US Specialist Ryan S. Dallam Baghdad Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US Captain Anthony Palermo Jr. Baghdad Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack

05-Apr-2007 6 | US: 2 | UK: 4 | Other: 0
US Specialist Jason A. Shaffer Baqubah - Diyala Hostile - IED attack
US Sergeant Forrest D. Cauthorn Hawijah - At-Ta'mim Hostile small arms fire
UK 2nd Lieutenant Joanna Yorke Dyer Basra - Basrah Hostile -IED attack
UK Private Eleanor Dlugosz Basra - Basrah Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
UK Corporal Kris O’Neill Basra - Basrah Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
UK Kingsman Adam Smith Basra - Basrah Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack

04-Apr-2007 6 | US: 6 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Private 1st Class James J. Coon Balad - Salah ad Din Hostile - IED attack
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Baghdad (eastern part) Hostile -small arms fire
US Staff Sergeant Jerry C. Burge Tikrit - Baghdad Hostile - - IED attack
US Corporal Joseph H. Cantrell IV Tikrit - Baghdad Hostile - IED attack
US Private 1st Class Derek A. Gibson Baghdad Hostile -- IED attack
US Private 1st Class Walter Freeman Jr. Baghdad Hostile - IED attack

03-Apr-2007 2 | US: 2 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Staff Sergeant Shane R. Becker Baghdad Hostile -small arms fire
US Private 1st Class Gabriel J. Figueroa Baghdad Hostile -small arms fire

02-Apr-2007 6 | US: 5 | UK: 1 | Other: 0
US Specialist Curtis R. Spivey San Diego - Baghdad Hostile - IED attack
US Lance Corporal Daniel R. Olsen Fallujah - Anbar Hostile -small arms fire
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire
US Sergeant Bradley D. King Amiriyah - Anbar Hostile - IED attack
US Specialist Brian E. Ritzberg Kirkuk - At-Ta'mim Hostile -IED attack
UK Rifleman Aaron Lincoln Basra - Basrah Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire

01-Apr-2007 7 | US: 6 | UK: 1 | Other: 0
US Staff Sergeant David A. Mejias Baghdad Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US Staff Sergeant Eric R. Vick Baghdad Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US Sergeant Robert M. McDowell Baghdad Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US Specialist William G. Bowling Baghdad Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US Private 1st Class Miguel A. Marcial III Al Anbar Province Non-hostile
UK Kingsman (private) Danny John Wilson Basra - fire - small arms fire
US Staff Sergeant Jason R. Arnette Baghdad Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
Total 47 | US: 41 | UK: 6 | Other: 0

Die, in this dusty,barron iraqi homeland.
Dying at the hand of Iraqi's, fighting the foreign occupier.
Every soliders death, is nothing but more blood on the hands of the US leaders.

It is sickening, gut wrenching thinking how had we elected a different leaers, these men could of been sitting in their favourite bar, drinking with their mates, toasting to the efforts of their leaders to remove Alqaeda from afghanistan and find diplomatic nad PEACEFUL means to gain co-operation from gulf states such as Iraq.

Instead, they sent these men to war, without even TALKING to the enemy.



[edit on 10-4-2007 by Agit8dChop]

I would have to look into those other companys but Lockheed Martin I know makes military vehicals. I can complain that a company that makes military equiptment dose well in a time of war. I couldn't imagine that they would do quite as well in a time of peace. It's just one of those things, they take a risk and right now it is paying off.

As for companys that provide equipment and supplies for war... I would hope they do their best but it's not like they are the frist companys to try to save some cash. Let's just say we have been getting screwed for a while and this war is not nearly the start of it.

Styki