"Six Iraqi security forces were killed and eight others were wounded in two separate attacks on police and army on Saturday morning, police and health officials tell CNN. Four Iraqi soldiers and a police officer were killed and four soldiers and a police officer were wounded.
In Baghdad, an Iraqi soldier was killed and four people, including three soldiers, were wounded when a roadside bomb exploded near an army patrol."
This was definitely something i had heard before. Something familiar; an unwelcome friend.
After 9 years of hearing the same thing nearly everyday, the anxiousness of the situation dies down, but the concern continues to grow.
"...Car bomb in Iraq today..." "14 civilians were killed, others wounded in Iraq this past weekend..." "...a suicide bomber killed 6 police men and wounded many others in a Mosque bombing today..." "two American soldiers were wounded today after a roadside bomb killed 8 others..."
You just fall into a numb lull when you hear the same words being tossed around day after day about the war. About death.
The first few news reports of the imminent effects of assassination, roadside bombing, and suicide bomber attacks in Iraq were very un-nerving. Feelings of disgust, hatred, and disbelief were common to experience.
After the years continued to pass, the same effects of assassination, roadside bombing, and suicide bomber attacks in Iraq stirred up different emotions; a lack of emotions.
Hearing Brian Williams report a new car bomb or gun fight against innocent Iraqi civilians and American troops is unsettling. Hearing Brian Williams report a new car bomb or gun fight against innocent Iraqi civilians and American troops everyday, is exhausting. By no means am I requesting that the news of our Soldiers dying for what we believe in is a wrong thing, it is a right of the people to know what is going on to their fellow Americans on the battlefields.
However the idea of hearing troop, police, and civilian death everyday during the course of a 9 year war begins to get progressively old.
Are we doing anything to prevent this? Why is this still happening after we declare we are leaving the country, and putting it in the hands of the people? Isn't this what they wanted all along? Why am I even writing this? Really, the news about our war in the country has dwindled down so much, I would not be surprised if some Americans forgot we were even there. But to hear another attack in Iraq? A recollection of a lack of emotion plagues me as I brush this occurrence off as a tragic, yet daily, endeavor.
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