Iraq chaos:
By on Mar 23rd, 2006 at 2:11 pm
Iraq chaos:
“The headquarters of the anti-terrorist unit in Baghdad was today targeted in a wave of bomb attacks that left at least 56 people dead.” A second car bombing at a market area outside a Shia mosque left 6 dead and more than 20 wounded, “many of them children.”
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Now, now, don’t just report the bad news. Quit ignoring all the good news coming out of Iraq. Bushy will think you’re being unfair.
March 23rd, 2006 at 2:14 pmI’ll say it again, in the days and months to come, there will be more death and destruction, and war. But when I’m talkin bout war here, I’m really talkin bout peace……these evildoers and suiciders must be stopped”…..
March 23rd, 2006 at 2:17 pmI’m not sure about you, but I’m sure glad the insurgency is in its final throes.
March 23rd, 2006 at 2:18 pmNothing to see here move along……
Why cant they report the school classrooms in Ramadi being painted for the fourth time by Bechtel…why oh why….
March 23rd, 2006 at 2:20 pmOn the bright side 2 schools were painted.
March 23rd, 2006 at 2:21 pm4# insurgency is in its final throes.
ha ha ha dont make me laugh , theres millions of sunnis and Shia that have loft relatives,friends,children that will one day get you back ,,,,I would if i were in that situation and i mean BIG TIME get you back
March 23rd, 2006 at 2:22 pm“Major Combat Operations in Iraq have ended.” -Lying Sack of Sh!t
Goper’s Lament (Hard To Be A Republican)
March 23rd, 2006 at 2:25 pm“We’re Makin’ Progress” is now #4 on the list of “Top 10 GOP Sound Bites.”
March 23rd, 2006 at 2:30 pmAnd there war against sin has been making progress for thousands of years
March 23rd, 2006 at 2:31 pmok this month has been a poor month for the Iraqis in Killing Murdering thief marines BUt the good news is the casualties from Feb. 11 through March 21, 616 U.S. soldiers were injured in Iraq, an average of 15.8 per day. This was more than twice as bad as the Feb. 4-10 period when 47 U.S. soldiers were injured at an average rate of just under seven per day. And it was also more than 36 percent worse than the rate of the five-day period from Jan. 30 through Feb. 3 when 58 U.S. soldiers were injured, according to the DOD figures, at an average rate of 11.6 per day.
I presume the Iraqis are thinking american mentality here
“”Why keep them in prison at the cost of tax payers money”"
therefore why kill the marines when we can keep them in wheelchairs for the rest of their lifes at tax payers expense
March 23rd, 2006 at 2:32 pmIgnore all the car bombs, stuff happens.
March 23rd, 2006 at 2:35 pm#7 That song made me smile. That was great. Thanks!!
March 23rd, 2006 at 2:36 pmThis is their definition of things going “very well?” Sickening.
March 23rd, 2006 at 2:40 pmWe need to bring our troops home now.
March 23rd, 2006 at 2:42 pmwhat would their definition of ‘things are really f*cked up in Iraq’ be?
March 23rd, 2006 at 2:47 pmBut Bush only wants good news from the press. Now he’s gonna have to do more convincin.
March 23rd, 2006 at 2:47 pmAnd, troll, like you say, it is money well spent, eh?
March 23rd, 2006 at 2:48 pmYou know the the Right is just thinking, “it is bound to get better soon”. They keep hoping week after week. And if it does get better they will start their machine of critizing the Nay Sayers and calling us cowards and unpatriotic. The thing is, it isn’t going to get better. The sectarian violence has no reason to abate and lots of reasons to scale upwards. Having a huge well trained Iraqi army isn’t going to do anything to stop all the violence. The only thing that will is time and the US getting the hell out of their business.
It is sad and amazing to watch the whole political machine unravel here in the US, people waking up to the fact that we launched a war of choice based on worthless inteligence and propaganda. People are realizing the difference between Iraq and Al’Qaida. Al’Qaida doesn’t need Iraq to plan and launch attacks against the US. This Central Front in the War on Terror is just losing steam. None of the augements make any sense and people aren’t paying attention to the drum beat anymore. Unfortunately saying I told you so doesn’t make me feel any better. There is just too much death and horror happening in Iraq.
Meanwhile back in reality, it is just horrifying to watch all the events unravel in Iraq.
March 23rd, 2006 at 3:03 pmLike the previous post, I am greatly pained by what I see happening in Iraq. And I take no pleasure in saying that I knew from the beginning that this was going to happen. What I do feel angry about is the fact that the American people were conned into believing this was a noble and necessary war. There are a bunch of theories about why we went to war…but none of them justify the death and destruction that has been visited on that unfortunate country. The NeoCons have a lot to answer for…
March 23rd, 2006 at 3:37 pmHere’s something ThinkProgress should write about.
JABBS has a post about a U.S. soldier blogging from Iraq and complaining that he’s being “fed nothing but propaganda.”
Sound familiar?
March 23rd, 2006 at 4:00 pmbimbo
My thought exactly, but you beat me to it.
Bushco wants the casualties dead, not wounded. The wounded may well require medical attention the rest of their lives, and pensions, and medications, and artificial arms, and artificial legs.
The dead soldiers next of kin gets $100,000, a thank you note, and a burial. Done.
Naw Georgie wants them dead, sent home in boxes, regular air freight. He dont want them wounded. Too much trouble down the line.
March 23rd, 2006 at 4:02 pmI log on to the Internet Wire only just now, after otherwise enjoying a death-free day (or at least a day free of news of that thing, which the whole Iraq mess provides us daily)…
Much sorried to read of attacks that leave so many dead; too wearied (and worn) to sprint to the news of those deaths, from the Times and the Post…
It’s awful, and a burden, to a heart and a mind otherwise caught up in the evil of the present Administration, to keep track of, and to track, all the death that that Administration finds so profitable…
SORROW FOR THE ONES ENROLLED TODAY
…sorrow, truly.
As for words, I’m satisfied (but in no ways glad) to see
CHAOS
as the word to appear over this item…
As a cause of Death to so many today…
As a description of what it is that the present Administration has created…
FOR THE GLORY AND THE PROFIT
…of themselves and their supporters.
But it’s a much heavier sentiment felt (too heavy to type), to see such a number of dead…
Let’s just say ‘CHAOS’, instead of the ridiculous ‘Civil War’.
March 23rd, 2006 at 4:27 pmAnd I’m slow to Anger, but once moved, long and difficult in the stopping…
Are there really yet again Children as victims innocent of this madness?
Why that must be, my heart has no answer.
That this should STOP, is my heart’s work.
March 23rd, 2006 at 4:34 pm“chaos” … i am reminded that when this first started, randi rhodes stated it was her belief that it was “planned chaos” – so that the bush cabal could steal …
March 23rd, 2006 at 4:51 pmhey, THAT’s working…
The military has acceded that violence is spiking again — but only reports of happy children scrambling for lollipops will be approved.
March 23rd, 2006 at 6:11 pmNo one denies that there aren’t “feel good” stories involving the human interest in Iraq — but the facts are that it is a country in civil war and we are responsible.
In the 1860’s in the USA there were also human interest stories across the country — but in a war, you should get the hard news of the war, as ugly as it is. If the news is slanted toward the warm and fuzzy stories, that would be a distortion of fact, belying the truth of the status of the war.
Hey, don’t forget all the good stories too! Like maybe the one about the guy in Baghdad that actually made it to and from work without being blown to smithereens. Face it Bushites, there is very, very little good f*cking news from Iraq. Hey Cheney, how is it the insurgency in its last throes has put together some pretty complicated operations in the last three days? Yup, attacking the anti-terror unit and getting away with it really shows how weak and defeated the insurgency is. Cheney=clueless
March 23rd, 2006 at 9:03 pm