"they got hammered"

well so are we. figuratively of course. they (the they being our men and women and the iraqi people) got hammered LITERALLY. some lost their lives. some are wounded. we're safe here. well safe in a way. we're not safe behind our laws and constitution. they don't seem to exist any longer.

4 pm, middle of the day. the green zone, the 'SAFE' zone gets HAMMERED

Green Zone Is Hit By Barrage of Shells
American Killed; Attacks Becoming Frequent, Accurate


By Sudarsan Raghavan
Washington Post Foreign Service

BAGHDAD, July 10 -- More than two dozen mortar shells pounded the Green Zone on Tuesday, killing three people, including a U.S. military member, and injuring 18, among them five Americans, U.S. officials said.
The dead also included an Iraqi and a person of unknown nationality. Two of the wounded Americans were service members and three were contract employees, the U.S. Embassy said in a statement.
The attack, around 4 p.m., was the latest in a series of mortar and rocket strikes in recent months against the Green Zone, which houses the U.S. Embassy and other Western missions along with Iraqi government buildings. In April, a suicide bomber attacked inside Iraq's parliament building.........