57 die in suicide bombings across Iraq.
By on Jul 28th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
57 die in suicide bombings across Iraq.
In Iraq today “four suicide bombers believed to be women struck a Shiite pilgrimage in Baghdad and a Kurdish protest rally in northern Iraq on Monday, killing at least 57 people and wounding nearly 300 in one of this year’s deadliest attacks.”
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But the surge is WORKING!
July 28th, 2008 at 2:49 pmMy god — did the checks made out to the insurgents bounce?
July 28th, 2008 at 2:49 pmGDumbya: “We have turned the corner on the time horizon.”
July 28th, 2008 at 2:52 pmMcWars Says:
My god — did the checks made out to the insurgents bounce?
LOL, and so true.
The Surge is a House of Cards.
¶ AIO
July 28th, 2008 at 2:52 pm… and a Kurdish protest rally in northern Iraq on Monday,
What were they protesting? I thought everything was “a magnificent success?”
July 28th, 2008 at 2:55 pmIs the escalation (euphistimically called a “surge”)of the illegal criminal Bush imperial occupation still working, Mr. Old McUnfaithful? Is is still worth spending $3,000,000,000.00 every seven days of American taxpayer money? What exactly do we get out of this stupid colonial occupation? Oh, let’s see, a devalued US dollar, gasoline at $4.50/gallon, Diebold “counting” our votes electronically, a lying complicit whoring corporte media, endless lies… the list goes on and on and…
July 28th, 2008 at 2:58 pmIn the oil-rich northern city of Kirkuk, 25 people were killed and 185 wounded when a blast tore through a crowd of Kurds protesting a draft provincial elections law, officials said.
Better get that surge pumped up again.
July 28th, 2008 at 2:58 pmAnd remember:
This is SUCCESS as defined by McInsane and the gutless GOP “surge” chickenhawks.
I shudder to think what FAILURE must look like to them.
July 28th, 2008 at 2:58 pmHummm. just like I thought all side’s being paid by one big war complex in the middle..Hard to say something is working for Peace and an end to war when everyone is still getting killed or maimed..War with out end, no matter who’s in the white house…Big business rule’s…P B & J everyone…
July 28th, 2008 at 2:59 pmthe surge is working, but there are still outbreaks of isolated violence, so we have to remain in Iraq no matter what the Iraqis want so that they can demonstrate that the surge is working, but there are still outbreaks of …..
It’s the Neverending Story redux
July 28th, 2008 at 2:59 pmI think it’s sad that our society is so inured to violence. With all the video games, violent TV shows etc. –this, unfortunately, just goes over people’s heads.
We’re more concerned with “American Idle“
July 28th, 2008 at 3:00 pmI’m guessing this will be a relatively troll-free thread, with that headline.
July 28th, 2008 at 3:02 pmFemale suicide bomber is a job well-suited to Monica Goodling.
July 28th, 2008 at 3:03 pmSince there weren’t any Americans among the dead, I predict the White House reaction will be “So?”
Oh wait…that would also be their reaction if Americans WERE among the dead.
July 28th, 2008 at 3:06 pmAnd 57 more are added to Bush’s “legacy.”
Perhaps we should construct a virtual clock, showing the lives lost, like the debt clock.
July 28th, 2008 at 3:06 pmI thought Karen Hughes was in charge of bringing Amurikan values to these A-rab wimmenfolk?
Heckuva job, Hughesie!
July 28th, 2008 at 3:06 pmMiss Hussein Molly:
July 28th, 2008 at 3:07 pmI believe Tony Snow told us that it was just a number.
So, this is the surge, huh? Great job, W.
July 28th, 2008 at 3:09 pmIt feels like the real effects of “the surge” are beginning to surface. Bombings in India, violence and death in the Kurdish region of Iraq . . .
GDumbya’s mess in Iraq is like a half-inflated balloon. Squeeze it in one place and it expands somewhere else.
The surge really did nothing to “quell” violence. It merely moved it from one place to another. This is what happens when you have a little tin cowboy in the White House who decides to push a sharp stick in the eye of the rest of the world and start a dirty little avoidable war.
July 28th, 2008 at 3:09 pmAll Sunnis and Shiites got along perfectly well for centuries until Bush was President.
Someone doesn’t seem too pleased with the fundamentalist theocracy his tax dollars have purchased.
Buck up, little soldier. It’ll all turn out, after you’re dead.
July 28th, 2008 at 3:10 pmIf you’ve got no family left, and are facing a life of squalid prostitution to support yourself, maybe going out in style sounds like a better deal.
July 28th, 2008 at 3:10 pmIf Obama were president, blah, blah, blah
Yeah, but he’s not going to get your johnson enlarged, you’ll have to take care of that yourself.
July 28th, 2008 at 3:12 pmalphainfinityomega Says:
July 28th, 2008 at 3:17 pmThe Surge is a House of Cards.
And when those marbles roll, the rest of the country will fall down like dominoes. Checkmate!
This is a sad headline…..but why aren’t the names of our young killed in Iraq everyday being printed ? Why do we allow the media to maintain the blackout on the loss of our soldiers ? When will America start caring about our soldiers dying for bush’s war.
July 28th, 2008 at 3:23 pmobamaismymessiah Says:
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Looks like Petraeus was right again.
July 28th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
Go tell that to one of the family members of the 57 who perished today ; BTW , make sure you’re wearing track shoes/cleats , dipshit………
Wow , twice in
July 28th, 2008 at 3:30 pmIn the oil-rich northern city of Kirkuk, 25 people were killed and 185 wounded when a blast tore through a crowd of Kurds protesting a draft provincial elections law, officials said.
This is the most-salient part of the article, after the bombing itself. It would seem to suggest that all the surge rhetoric is detached from political reality, and that the forces are merely keeping the lid on a simmering pressure-cooker. One that could explode without warning.
July 28th, 2008 at 3:30 pmGotta wonder bout the Iraqi troops. How many of them are moles and plants from the religious sects, waiting for the right time to help set Iraq on fire again?
July 28th, 2008 at 3:31 pmBut Floppy McSpin said there’s “been no significant sectarian violence in 13 weeks” and “the surge is a success”.
That was a short-lived victory.
July 28th, 2008 at 3:31 pmGeneral David Petraeus told Reuters in an interview that progress in Iraq in the past year had been “very dramatic” but he said suicide bombers would still slip through security nets.
Especially if they’re former security forces. They know our routines, reaction times, and weaknesses.
Got mercs?
July 28th, 2008 at 3:33 pmGosh TrollMessiah, you seem awfully cheerful about having 57 more dead Iraqis. You seem awfully happy that your savior claims that some possibility exists that U.S. forces may be engaged in Iraq only twice as long as U.S. forces were engaged in the second world war. All I want to know on a day when one of Condi’s own advisors says the invasion was a huge mistake and many years after we learned that every pretense for the invasion offered by our government was false is precisely what cause do you have for happiness?
July 28th, 2008 at 3:34 pmHmm… the troll’s cut-and-paste seems to support Obama’s 16-month target. There should be no surprise in that, since the Iraqi government supports it as well.
This is one lame troll. Oy. Is he even trying?
July 28th, 2008 at 3:34 pmobamaismymessiah Says:
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If Obama were president, no Sunni would ever kill a Shiite and no Shiite would ever kill a Sunni. All Sunnis and Shiites got along perfectly well for centuries until Bush was President. He promised that there would never be a single bombing after the Surge — ever. This is all his fault, of course. /snark
July 28th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
Least we can all say that Obama knows that there are Sunni , Shia and Kurds in Iraq ; can’t say that about the retarded simian in the Oval Office for the last 7+ years……..
July 28th, 2008 at 3:35 pmobamaismymessiah Says:
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraqi and U.S. forces now control virtually all of Iraq and Baghdad’s troops might be able to take on security responsibility for the whole country by the end of 2009, the senior U.S. general in Iraq said on Monday.
General David Petraeus told Reuters in an interview that progress in Iraq in the past year had been “very dramatic” but he said suicide bombers would still slip through security nets.
Looks like Petraeus was right again.
July 28th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
Yeah
I heard the family members of the over 1 million Iraqis that have perished so far are taking great comfort in that and the families of those 57 poor individuals that were just exterminated today were thinking of using Petraeus’ statement for everyone’s eulogy , jackass……….
July 28th, 2008 at 3:39 pmralph the wonder llama Says:
Looks like Petraeus was right again.
Hmm… the troll’s cut-and-paste seems to support Obama’s 16-month target. There should be no surprise in that, since the Iraqi government supports it as well.
This is one lame troll. Oy. Is he even trying?
It’s interesting, because just this morning we had a troll quoting Petraeus, only that Petraeus said the situation was too unstable to allow a timeline, as suggested by al Maliki and Obama. Maybe there are actually two different guys named Petraeus? It’s confusing.
The trolls assure us that “the surge” has succeeded and the country is stable, and at the same time tell us that the country isn’t stable and that we could be there for years. Not just the trolls, either, but the administration and all their neocon media hacks.
July 28th, 2008 at 3:44 pmThe only surge that is working for McLame is the surge brought on by his daily Ex-Lax dose.
July 28th, 2008 at 3:46 pmgummitch beat me too it. So which is it obamaismymessiah?
July 28th, 2008 at 3:48 pmNotice the clever nuance of the phrase ‘conditions on the ground’. Just amorphous to mean just about anything you want to make it.
July 28th, 2008 at 4:02 pmLike, when you can freeze an egg on the sidewalk in Baghdad in July, how about that condition on the ground?
What happened to the “Stargate time horizon” or some shit like that. More “surge captain”… “I’m Bush and I invaded the wrong country causing death and destruction for my own stupid ego”.
July 28th, 2008 at 4:57 pmAnd a new sockpuppet emerges.
Welcome, cabbinbagger! Help yourself to some Cheetos.
July 28th, 2008 at 4:58 pmYeah, I don’t recall this violence happening before the invasion.
July 28th, 2008 at 6:57 pmCry_Havoc Says:
That’s because A.) You weren’t looking for it, and B.) our media wasn’t covering it. Just because you “don’t recall it” doesn’t mean it wasn’t happening. That is a violent part of the world, that’s what they know, what they preach, and what they practice.
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A) You’re idiot B) You think we care what you say or think C) You’re an ignorant D) You’re a Republican propaganda minion.
Why? Because there were NO suicide bombings in Iraq prior to the USA invasion. ZERO. Saddam was a vicious dictator (put in place by the CIA, BTW), but the generalized violence is a direct consequence of the USA invasion, and has produced more innocent victims in five years than Saddam in twenty something. Greeat work.
And your asseveration “That is a violent part of the world, that’s what they know, what they preach, and what they practice.” is simply ignorant and racist. Maybe you see the whole world outside the USA as a nebulous violent place, but is a simplist and uninformed position, because different countries and regions have different motivations, societies and problems, no matter if you can differentiate them. That type of ignorance is what favored the easy deviation of the goal of chasing the responsible of 9/11 from Afghanistan to a place two countries away, Iraq, a country that had NOTHING ado with Al Qaeda in 2003. Your racist and ignorant stance has produced a genocide, a genocide that will be soon as deadly as the one of the jews in WWII, in number of victims.
July 29th, 2008 at 7:08 am