Massive casualties after Iraq suicide attacks.
By on Mar 6th, 2007 at 9:59 am
Massive casualties after Iraq suicide attacks.
“Two suicide bombers struck a crowd of Shiite pilgrims today in Hilla, Iraq, killing at least 47 people and wounding at least 117, a Hilla police official told CNN.”
UPDATE: CBS News: “The death count has jumped to more than 90 people killed in a suicide attack on Shiite pilgrims in Hillah.”
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Can’t be, why just last night I saw Brian Williams tell doughboy Matthews, that everthings peachy keen, from his outpost, inside the green zone..
March 6th, 2007 at 10:07 amheckuva surge, georgie…
March 6th, 2007 at 10:07 amThis must be the “one attack per day” that numb nuts Laura found so annoyingly unfair to the “overall progress” in Iraq. Doesn’t matter how many died, and how much blood was shed, it’s bad for “Spank-Me-Daddy’s” image.
March 6th, 2007 at 10:08 amIt’s obvious that the insurgents will be like FDR’s feather pillow.
March 6th, 2007 at 10:12 amIf you hit them in one area, they’ll just move to another.
Let me ask the trolls this.
If the occupation is so popular, why aren’t these insurgents being ratted out by the population?
How many of you still agree with the chymp that the Iraqi people owe us a great deal of appreciation for all we’ve done for them?
This is why we don’t even go to war to begin with, unless its absolutly necessary.
This was unecessary.
Yes I have noticed the MSM is reporting from the green zone, and trying to humanize our efforts over there in Iraq. It almost feels like its an attempt to soften up the public’s opinion of this war. It seems desperate.
March 6th, 2007 at 10:15 amI am an American. I am Ashamed. I am Horrified. I am Impotent.
March 6th, 2007 at 10:18 amThere were two bomb attacks today to make up for the missing day in February.
Pickles Bush is still on target.
-GSD
March 6th, 2007 at 10:20 amshhh don’t tell pickles.
March 6th, 2007 at 10:20 amThese last throws seem to be dragging on quite a bit….
March 6th, 2007 at 10:22 amRUC, I dont think common people are behind the daily attacks. The removal of hussein´s political apparatus created a vaccum, just like when an important drug dealer is caught or dies, some other groups looking for power will fight for their own agendas. In my opinion, common people is a victim, as always, of the internal struggling in Iraq. And there is religious motivation fueling all this carnage.
March 6th, 2007 at 10:25 amFor ah historical flashback read this article by Scott Ritte called “Squeezing Jello in Iraq”.
“It is a war the United States cannot win, and which the government of Iyad Allawi cannot survive. Unfortunately, since recent polls show that some 70% of the American people support the war in Iraq, it is a war that will rage until the American domestic political dynamic changes, and the tide of public opinion turns against the war.”
Scott Ritter’s predictions in November, 2004. The man who was pooh-pood and ridiculed by so many.
-GSD
March 6th, 2007 at 10:27 amSo where is the surrender lobby of Pelosi, Murtha and Feingold?
March 6th, 2007 at 10:29 am#10 Good Lord, Juan! We agree! Will wonders never cease?
Absolutely right. Regular, “every day” Iraqis are not the people behind these hideous attacks against civilains. Regular, “everyday” Iraqis were happy to be rid of Saddam and simply wanted to live in peace. Those carrying out these type of attacks on religious pilgrims, book markets, universities. etc. are Al Qaeda and/or Baathist terrorists who are seeking to establish their own form of control over Iraq.
March 6th, 2007 at 10:33 amToo many dead enders in their last throes.
March 6th, 2007 at 10:40 amJuan C ~ Thanks for the reply.
March 6th, 2007 at 10:47 amI do think that if the Iraqi populace really wanted the insurgents out, they could provide intel that would cause them grief. Maybe I’m wrong…
Maybe I’m wrong…
Comment by RUCerious
No, I think that thats the situation. Iraqis see US and Iraqi government forces as the real enemy. They wont out the insurgents.
March 6th, 2007 at 10:57 amRegular, “everyday†Iraqis were happy to be rid of Saddam and simply wanted to live in peace.
Comment by Exley
I dont know about that, Ex. Could you provide some polls for that statement?
March 6th, 2007 at 10:59 amAl Qaeda and/or Baathist terrorists who are seeking to establish their own form of control over Iraq.
Comment by Exley
Buddy, dont forget about the occupating forces.
March 6th, 2007 at 11:00 am#10 and #13
Just WHERE do you think these “insurgents” and “terrorists” come from? Couldn’t be the population of regular, “everyday” people could it? I mean heck if your family was decimated by a trigger happy soldier, or a misplaced “smart bomb” wouldn’t YOU want revenge?
I think so.
If the tables were turned and it was YOUR neighborhood that was occupied by foreign soldiers and YOU had to deal with death, bullets, explosions, raping etc. day after DAY you just might begin to hate that occupying force regardless of their true intentions.
And BTW its not just Sunni “baathists” that are fueling the cycle of bloodshed, its shiite militias and death squads as well – many of whom are embedded in the Iraqi military which works side by side with the U.S.
March 6th, 2007 at 11:03 am#17 Juan, What part of my statment are you questioning? That the vast majority of the Iraqi people were happy to be rid of Saddam? Are you claiming the Iraqi people were happy to be living under a brutal totalitarian dictator that killed as many as 500,000 of his fellow countrymen, left mass graves all over Iraq, routinely imprisoned and tortured men, women, and children?
Or are you questioning my statement that the vast majority of Iraqis “simply wanted to live in peace?”
March 6th, 2007 at 11:06 am“Iraqis see US and Iraqi government forces as the real enemy. They wont out the insurgents.”
So, regular Iraqis see the government that they themselves voted in as “the enemy” and support those “insurgents” who are blowing up their fellow citizens in book markets, universities, and mosques????
Interesting theory, Juan.
March 6th, 2007 at 11:11 amSo where is the surrender lobby of Pelosi, Murtha and Feingold?
Comment by Patrick1 — March 6, 2007 @ 10:29 am
Surely this must be the dumbest troll ever. The talking points are so lame, simplistic, and out of kilter that it appears they were automatically generated by a crude computer program. Patrick-the-talking-point-robot.
March 6th, 2007 at 11:20 amWhat, did you peace lovin’ hippies think there wouldn’t be casualities in a war? Come on. You guys are pathetic. We’re making a lot of progress in Iraq. People will die along the way. That’s just the way it is. Should we have fled Normandy with our head between our legs because some soliders died?
March 6th, 2007 at 11:36 amOr are you questioning my statement that the vast majority of Iraqis “simply wanted to live in peace?â€
Comment by Exley
Since you claim that sandinistas were genocides (you know, a lie that Reagan told you), it is really good to ask from you, some polls where Iraqis manifest their relief for saying bye bye Hussein and hello US? Could you provide some polls?
March 6th, 2007 at 12:22 pmOT, Libby guilty 4 out of 5 counts.
March 6th, 2007 at 12:34 pm#24, Juan…FYI
“Leaders of the country’s Miskito Indians have accused him of genocide for forcing thousands to relocate during the Contra civil war … On Thursday, the Permanent Commission on Human Rights, an independent Nicaraguan body, said it would push the genocide case against Ortega throughout his administration.”
Cold War icon Daniel Ortega trades in Marx for God, warms to U.S.
March 6th, 2007 at 1:18 pmThe Associated Press Published: November 10, 2006
VbK#22 – would that be the source of the long lamented
March 6th, 2007 at 2:31 pmTPR reports?
DEATH TAKES NO HOLIDAY–Prince Sirki(tm) IS CHARGING THE CELESTIAL TRIBUNAL OVERTIME FOR ALL THE SOULS THAT ARE RELEASED IN Iraq’s BLOODY MESS–IT’S A DIRTY JOB BUT SOMEONE, NAMELY HE, MUST DO IT!!!!!
March 6th, 2007 at 2:38 pm