Father torches van after news of son's death

Benassflick · Aug 25, 2004

Way to go Bush

Carlos Arredondo, 44, was severely burned and rushed to Hollywood Regional Hospital in Florida after learning that Pfc. Alexander Arredondo had died, police said.

"He suffered serious burns," said Detective Carlos Negron.

Negron said the young man was killed in Iraq Tuesday.

ChuckSims · Aug 25, 2004

Scratch this guy off the Vote for Bush list.

jointpleasures · Aug 26, 2004

Why aren't you lefties more pissed about this. His death could have been avoided easily. If this were clinton fighting this war against terrorism and he came up against a guy like Al-Sadr and handled it like Bush is, I'de be all over Clinton.

poopsicle · Aug 26, 2004

What the fvck are you talking about?!

jointpleasures · Aug 26, 2004

Glad you asked BrownIce,

If Kerry would come out and say he would have dealt with Sadr and the Shrine with the means of one of the cool looking F-16's, he'de sway some votes away from Bush ( well, he'de at least be considered credible for a moment).

xpanda · Aug 26, 2004

JP: this oughtta give you a woody:

Mortar Barrage Kills 27 in Kufa Mosque
By ABDUL HUSSEIN AL-OBEIDI

KUFA, Iraq (AP) - A mortar barrage slammed into a mosque filled with Iraqis preparing to march on the embattled city of Najaf, killing 27 people and wounding 63 here Thursday, hours before the nation's top Shiite cleric arrived at the gates of the holy city in a massive convoy hoping to end three weeks of fighting.

``We are now in Najaf,'' said Hamed al-Khafaf, an assistant to the Grand Ayatollah Ali Husseini al-Sistani.

In Kufa, Najaf's twin city, unidentified gunmen opened fire from an Iraqi National Guard base on thousands of Shiite Muslim marchers heading to Najaf, killing at least three and wounding 46, witnesses said.

Fierce clashes also continued Thursday in Najaf with U.S. warplanes bombing suspected positions of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army militia and explosions booming across the city.

The violence dampened renewed hopes for a rapid resolution to the three-week crisis that has pitted al-Sadr loyalists against a combined U.S.-Iraqi force. The U.S. military and the insurgents both blamed the other for the mortar barrage on Kufa's main mosque.