5 Years

It has been five years since the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq. And so the day of protesting began as per usual in the no free speech zone known as America:

Today, police arrested more than 30 people “who blocked entrances at the Internal Revenue Service building” as “part of a day of protests to mark the fifth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq.” Demonstrators also converged in Miami and San Francisco, and other cities across the country.

It wasn't long after that until we heard and read the banner news that it was all over:

MAY 1, 2003:
Mission Accomplished

"My fellow Americans: Major combat operations in Iraq have ended."
-Bush, 5/1/03

It is five years later and, right now, 3992 American soldiers have died in Iraq. Innocent Iraqi civilians are still getting slaughtered by supposed friends and foe alike. And bush fanatics talk of 10, 100 OR even ONE THOUSAND more years of this. Nevermind the last five years. What has happened just in the last week in Iraq?

Monday 17 March: 92 dead

Baghdad: 3 are killed in minibus explosion, Karrada; roadside bomb kills policeman, Mansour; mortar attack kill 5 at soccer field (2 of them children), Ghadeer; mortars hit house, kill 6 children, Sawmar; 7 bodies.

Karbala
Karbala: suicide bomber kills 52 near shrine.

Basra
Basra: gunmen kill policeman; woman's body found.

Anbar
Haditha: gunmen attack checkpoint, kill policeman.

Diyala
Abu Saida: roadside bomb kills 1.

Ninewa
Mosul: roadside bomb kills 1; 10 bodies.

Kirkuk
Udhaim: 3 bodies of neighbourhood patrol found.

Sunday 16 March: 26 dead

Baghdad: car bomb kills 1, Mansour; 5 bodies.

Diyala
Hwedir: 5 policemen die in clashes.
Khanaqeen: roadside bomb kills Kurd.
Muqdadiya: 2 bodies.

Ninewa
Mosul: gunmen kill 2 policemen; roadside bomb kills 1; 3 bodies -one beloning to 11-year-old boy.

Basra
Basra: 4 bodies.

Wassit
Kut: 2 bodies.

Saturday 15 March: 19 dead

Baghdad: 2 bodies.

Diyala
Al-Huwayder: gunmen kill civilian.
3 bodies.

Ninewa
Mosul: truck bomb kills 1 at checkpoint; bodies of 3 brothers found.

Wassit
Kut: 6 die in clashes; gunmen kill 1 during house raid.
Numaniya: body found.

Babil
Iskandariya: gunmen kill civilian.

Friday 14 March: 15 dead

Baghdad: football coach is shot dead, Al-Yarmuk; street sweeper killed by roadside bomb; 2 bodies.

Wassit
Kut: 2 policemen are killed in clashes; motorcycle bomb kills 1; chieftain's son is killed in clashes; bomb strikes minibus, kills 2.

Babil
Hilla: rockets kill 4.

Ninewa
Rabiya: suicide bomber kills interpreter at Syrian border.

Thursday 13 March: 39 dead

Baghdad: car bomb kills 18, Bab al-Sharki; gunmen kill journalist; 3 bodies.

Diyala
Baquba: civilian killed by gunman.

Salahuddin
Al-Hajaj: 3 Sahwa killed by gunmen.
Tikrit: gunmen kill policeman.
Baiji: gunmen kill 2 at checkpoint.
Samarra: 15-year-old girl is shot dead by police who open fire on family car at checkpoint.

Najaf
Najaf: policeman killed in drive-by shooting.

Kirkuk
Al Zab: suicide bomber kills 3.
Kirkuk-Rashad highway: car bomb kills 1.

Wassit
Kut: 2 killed by rockets during clashes.

Ninewa
Daybaka: 1 body found.
Mosul: abducted Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho is found dead.

Wednesday 12 March: 24 dead

Baghdad: roadside bomb kills 2, Amin; 4 bodies.

Diyala
Bazaiz Buhrz: US forces fire warning shot and kill 10-year-old girl.
Benizad: 5 Sahwa shot and beheaded at checkpoint.
Dali Abass: 1 body.
Kanaan-Balad Ruz: 1 body.
Imam Habash: 2 bodies.
Muqdadiya: 2 bodies.

Salahuddin
Baiji: policeman is shot dead.
Samarra: 3 fuel truck drivers killed by roadside bomb.

Tuesday 11 March: 90 dead

Baghdad: gunman kills 1 riding on minibus; 5 bodies.

Salahuddin
Dhuluiya: suicide car bomber kills 8 at checkpoint.
Tikrit: 3 die in US airstrike.
Samarra: 20 bodies found in mass grave -5 of them children.

Wasit
Kut: 22 are killed in clashes, 5 of them children.

Diyala
Muqdadiya: 2 bodies.

Dhi Qar
Nassiriya: roadside bomb hits bus carrying mourners returning from a funeral, kills 16.

Babil
Yusufiya: bomb explodes in building, kills 1.
Iskandariya: gunmen kill 1.

Anbar
Thar Thar: suicide car bomber kills 2 Sahwa members.

Ninewa
Mosul: 5 are killed when gunmen attack police checkpoint; 3 die in a car when US helicopter opens fire.

Basra
Basra: gunmen kill 1.

That is 21 confirmed dead Iraqi children just in the last week alone...

Just a typical week in Iraq as bush spreads FreeDumb. Do you really want to do the math on five years of this:


I'll save you the trouble of doing the simple math here...

FIVE YEARS times 52 WEEKS times 21 DEAD IRAQI KIDS equals

A special place place in hell for all of you war cheerleaders...