Informant38

Remembering The War Dead in Iraq

They are victims of George Bush's serial lying. It is his duty, and one that he shirks, to get up and read these names to a country distracted by a game for boys.
Herewith the names, not including the three most recent, whose names are not yet available. We apologize that the manner of death seems repetitious but these wars happen to come out like this:


...Killed Sept. 18 in an ambush of small arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades

...Killed in ambush by small arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades

...in Ar Ramadi, Iraq when an explosive device hit his vehicle

...Killed in a mortar attack in Abu Gareeh

...in Quesi, Iraq from a non-combat weapons discharge

...when a 5-ton truck struck the side of his vehicle

...when his vehicle went off the road and into a canal on Sept. 29

...on Sept. 29 when he tried to rescue __. ____ ____ in canal

...when an improvised explosive device detonated as his vehicle passed by

...Sept. 29 in Baghdad from a non-hostile gunshot wound

...in El Khadra, Iraq on Sept. 29 when an Iraqi citizen approached and shot him while he was on patrol

...of injuries sustained when an improvised explosive device exploded while he was on patrol

...struck by a forklift

...when an improvised explosive device and rocket-propelled grenades struck his convoy in Samarra

...when her convoy was hit by an improvised explosive device and rocket-propelled grenades

...Drowned in Baghdad on Oct. 3

...improvised explosive device

...improvised explosive device

...improvised explosive device

...small-arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades

...same unit, same incident.



�Jimmy Breslin/Newsday 10.13.03