Freedom On The March In Iraq, Dec. 18, 2004! What a Great Day For Freedom!

All this great news out of Iraq today! Isn't freedom grand?


12/18/04 AP: Four Americans hurt in Iraq blast
American troops face sporadic but cunning resistance from insurgents as they sweep the city of Fallujah more than a month after U.S. and Iraqi forces invaded the militants' stronghold, U.S. officials said Friday.

12/18/04 AP: Four Americans hurt in Iraq blast
The military says all four people injured in the attack north of Baghdad work for Florida-based Cochise Security. Two of the Americans suffered minor wounds...

12/18/04 aljazeera: Iraqi woman killed at US checkpoint
US soldiers have killed an Iraqi woman at a checkpoint in Kirkuk after the driver allegedly failed to stop as US contractors came under attack in Baiji

12/18/04 Xinhuanet: Four Iraqis killed in US airstrike near Fallujah
Four Iraqis were killed and five others wounded Friday when US warplanes struck the town of Ameriyat, near the restive Iraqi city of Fallujah...

12/18/04 aljazeera: Four Iraqis killed in Mosul attack
Three passengers and their driver have been killed when their car came under attack in the northern city of Mosul, witnesses said.

12/18/04 CadillacNews: Soldier injured in Fallujah returns home
Tim Bates...he felt something hit his leg...He looked down and saw a hole in his cammies and a lot of blood dripping out. That's when he first felt pain streak up his body.

12/18/04 AFP: Iraqi killed in bomb attack on US patrol
One Iraqi was killed and eight others wounded when a bomb targeting a US patrol exploded in the northern city of Mosul

12/18/04 AP: American hostage IDd
The U.S. Embassy confirmed the name of an American contractor taken hostage six weeks ago in Baghdad - a man who has not been seen or heard from since - identifying him as Roy Hallums, a 56-year-old worker for a Saudi company

12/18/04 Reuters: Iraqis Face Winter Shivering by Candlelight
As if the daily struggle to dodge bullets and bombings is not enough, many Iraqis now face a freezing winter shivering by candlelight as persistent attacks keep the power out for more than 12 hours a day

12/18/04 AP: 2 Killed in Northern Iraq Violence
Militants killed two Iraqis execution-style and wounded four U.S. security contractors in a roadside bombing Saturday in violence across northern Iraq

12/18/04 BBC: Sailor dies on board ship in Gulf
A Devon sailor serving in Iraq has died while on patrol in the Gulf, the Ministry of Defence said on Saturday.

12/18/04 Reuters: Sabotage Stops Iraq's North Oil Exports
Saboteurs blew up Iraq's northern export pipeline for the second week in a row on Saturday, halting oil flows to Turkey's Ceyhan port, oil officials said.

12/18/04 AP: Militants burn pipeline in Iraq
Militants also set ablaze a pipeline near the capital -- a rare attack on oil infrastructure in a populated area.

12/18/04 LATimes: 4 Turkish police officers killed in Mosul ambush
Masked gunmen in the turbulent Iraqi city of Mosul ambushed a car carrying Turkish police officers Friday, shooting three to death and decapitating a fourth who tried to run away, witnesses said.

12/18/04 ModestoBee: Details of Marine's death told
A grieving father from Modesto learned the details Friday of his son's death in Iraq, and found out that another Modestan retrieved the Marine corporal's body amid a "huge firefight."

12/18/04 Reuters: Insurgents Attack Iraq Election Offices
Insurgents have launched attacks on election offices in northern Iraq, killing two people and wounding nine six weeks before Iraqis are due to go to the polls.

under occupation, its infrastructure ruined, no rebuilding really begun, continuous doubt as to personal safety, etc, don't you think that the very freepers who demean Iraqis would be the first to say we need to kick the occupiers out and take back our country?

they'll never admit to it, and all they would do is talk about it. There isn't enough collective courage among them to do anything about it. Cowards with big mouths, that's my opinion of the lot.