Suicide Bomber Kills 21 in Iraq; 3 GIs Die

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=2&u=/ap/20051123/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_051122190106

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A suicide car bomber killed 21 people in northern Iraq on Tuesday after insurgents lured police to the scene by shooting an officer, officials said. The U.S. command said three more U.S. soldiers have been killed, pushing the American military death toll for the conflict to 2,100.

Elsewhere, insurgents fired a mortar shell at a U.S. ceremony transferring one of Saddam Hussein's palaces in Tikrit to Iraqi control. The shell failed to explode but sent the U.S. ambassador, the top American commander and robed tribal sheiks scurrying for cover as the round whistled overhead.

The suicide bomber struck on a busy commercial street in Kirkuk, a mixed Arab, Kurdish and Turkoman city in an oil-producing region 180 miles north of Baghdad. About half the dead were police who rushed to the scene after gunmen killed a fellow officer.

In addition to the 21 dead, another 24 people were wounded, according to police Brig. Gen. Sarhad Qader.

The attack was the latest in a wave of spectacular suicide operations that have killed more than 160 Iraqis since Friday. Most of the victims were Shiites.

Oh. My. God.

Please, george w. bush, explain how we're making progress in Iraq and spreading freedom and democracy.

You know what I think, mr. bush? I think the Iraqi insurgents are giving ideas to terrorists around the world on the best use of decoys to kill people, that's what I think.

They should be sent over there with no protection.

if they sent their daughters to the front line? They sure keep asking for mine...a 29-year-old college senior (with a 4.0, I must brag) and 2 toddlers and a full-time job. Not easy, but we DON'T appreciate the emails and phone calls from military recruiters who are very anxious to pay her tuition after a "just a few years" in Iraq. If all is well in Iraq, the administration can send their own children, not mine, to prove their point!

:evilfrown:

I get a nasty feeling that they all planning for a real big one.
It is bound to happen at this rate. Matter of time.

or is it democracy that's messy, or marching freedom is messy.

Whatever. I can't even keep BushCo's talking points straight anymore.

They don't want us there. Why isn't that obvious?

Mz Pip
:dem:

That was said by an Iraqi man on the street being interviewed by a reporter for ANN television.

Sick. Just sick.