British Soldiers starting to die....

[directfiesta]

Relieving American troops ....

3 British Soldiers Killed in Iraq Attack

November 4, 2004 4:45 p.m. EST

By TINI TRAN, Associated Press Writer

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Insurgents attacked British troops at a checkpoint in central Iraq on Thursday, killing three and wounding eight in a suicide bomb and mortar barrage aimed at soldiers sent to the high-risk area to free U.S. forces for an assault on the militant stronghold Fallujah.

U.S. troops pounded Fallujah with airstrikes and artillery fire, softening up militants ahead of the expected assault. Loudspeakers at Fallujah mosques blared out Quranic verses and shouts of "Allahu akbar," or "God is great," during the assault, residents said.

The three British soldiers were from the Black Watch regiment, which was moved last month from relatively quiet southern Iraq to the dangerous area just south of Baghdad.

An Iraqi interpreter also was killed in the attack, British officials said. Britain's armed forces minister, Adam Ingram, said in London that the attack was carried out by a suicide bomber in a vehicle and that the British checkpoint also came under mortar fire.

The deaths bring the number of British troops killed in Iraq to 73. It was the worst single combat loss for the British since three Royal Military Police were killed in the southern city of Basra in August 2003.

A suicide car bomber also targeted a U.S. Marine convoy near Ramadi, 70 miles west of Baghdad, but only the attacker died in the explosion, U.S. officials said.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair agreed to a U.S. request to move British troops to central Iraq despite considerable opposition at home, even within his Labour Party.

Scottish Nationalist Party spokesman Angus Robertson warned that the deaths would have "profound implications" for public opinion in Scotland, where the Black Watch regiment is recruited.

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/1099604763

That Freedom and liberation is really weird....

[Rich]

Now that Bush won, Blair is going to be forced to pull out of Iraq if he wants to keep his job.

[reynold]

Originally posted by Rich
Now that Bush won, Blair is going to be forced to pull out of Iraq if he wants to keep his job.

you tell them alright.

[Manowar]

Originally posted by Rich
Now that Bush won, Blair is going to be forced to pull out of Iraq if he wants to keep his job.

theres no one better for the UK to vote for, everyone is just as bad

[Sarah_Jayne]

Originally posted by Rich
Now that Bush won, Blair is going to be forced to pull out of Iraq if he wants to keep his job.

Doesn't really work like that. He isn't going to have someone else win his seat any time soon and Labour has too big a majority to be thrown out of gov't in the next election (whenever that may be) unless something very extreme happens. He may be replaced as party leader but I still don't think that is going to happen unless he decides to step down and he has hintered he wants to take them to another term.

Of course, these aren't the first British troops to die but these are a special case.

[Theo]

Blair will be elected again

[baddog]

Originally posted by Rich
Now that Bush won, Blair is going to be forced to pull out of Iraq if he wants to keep his job.

again your ignorance is so very profound

[Sarah_Jayne]

Originally posted by Soul_Rebel
Blair will be elected again

It isn't Blair. It is the Labour Party. The only people that vote for Blair are the people the people in the election district he runs in. Blair could lose his seat and the Labour Party would still be in charge.


Is the war harming Blair? Yes. Will the Labour Party lose control of parliment? Not next time but maybe the time after that.

[Scott McD]

Yep, the British people know they can't vote for an other party to take control, no matter how much they dislike Tony Blair & Co...

[Xenophage]

bummer

[Sarah_Jayne]

Originally posted by Scott McD
Yep, the British people know they can't vote for an other party to take control, no matter how much they dislike Tony Blair & Co...

well the question is who to vote for instead. I know a lot of people that could never bring themselves to vote Conservative but yet aren't totally sold on the Lib Dems.

[trouserrat]

Originally posted by baddog
again your ignorance is so very profound

It's amazing, but I think Rich gets stupider with every post.

[theking]

Originally posted by trouserrat
It's amazing, but I think Rich gets stupider with every post.

You are correct.

[baddog]

Originally posted by trouserrat
It's amazing, but I think Rich gets stupider with every post.

I wonder if we will be around to watch his brain implode