How Can It Get Worse Than This? 11/23/06: "150 die in deadliest attack of Iraq war "

This is a nightmare that never ends. US forces can't stop this shit so bring them home!...

Bombs kill 150 in Baghdad

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061123/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_061123155736

BAGHDAD, Iraq - In the deadliest attack since the beginning of the Iraq war, suspected Sunni-Arab militants used three suicide car bombs and two mortar rounds on the capital's Shiite Sadr City slum to kill at least 150 people and wound 238 on Thursday, police said.

The Shiites responded almost immediately, firing 10 mortar rounds at the Abu Hanifa Sunni mosque as Azamiya, killing one person and wounding seven people in their attack on the holiest Sunni shrine in Baghdad.

The Interior Ministry imposed a curfew on Baghdad until further notice.

Beginning at 3:10 p.m., the three car bomb attackers blew up their vehicles one after another, at 15 minute intervals, hitting Jamila market, al-Hay market and al-Shahidein Square in Sadr City. At about the same time, mortar rounds struck al-Shahidein Square and Mudhaffar Square, police said.

As the fiery explosions sent up huge plumes of black smoke up over northeastern Baghdad, and left streets covered with burning bodies and blood, angry residents and armed Shiite militiamen flooded the streets, hurling curses at Sunni Muslims and firing weapons into the air.



Iraqis try to help victims from a vehicle after a car bombing in the Sadr City area of Baghdad in this image taken from TV Thursday Nov. 23, 2006. In the deadliest attack on a sectarian enclave since the beginning of the Iraq war, suspected Sunni-Arab militants used five car bombs and two mortar rounds on the capital's Shiite Sadr City slum to kill at least 157 people and wound 257 on Thursday, police said. (AP Photo/AP Television)

recently stating that the war in Iraq can't be won militarily!

strategy of tension

K&R

That's a horrific war crime.

this is getting like a long commercial, wait until the election is over, wait until Thanskgiving is over...??!!

and I don't expect troop withdrawal of any dramatic proportions to be in the equation.

Don't the people who vote republican ever get tired of being LIED to??

Iraq is a bloody, hopeless, awful quagmire and republicans will lie to keep us there.

Iraq is the goose that lays golden eggs for the war profiteers.

They won't give it up easily.

"Take that you Westside bastards!"

:eyes:

My God. :cry:

Those poor, poor Iraqis.

making an oil grab with other people's children.

don't for one second mistake this for a humanitarian mission.

Black/White; X-tian/Jew/Muslim; Iraqi/American; gay/straight; Puke/Rat; and so on, that lets us develop the mindset that makes it alright to take from/subjugate/kill those that we designate as OTHER

its an apt description.

and thinking "those poor Iraqis" is by no means what got us into this mess. which was my point that you seemed to have missed.

Those Iraqi's who have America's oil.

Nationalistic identity may more commonly be used to designate how "special" WE are. However, it is by no means exclusively so. Put a significant block of any nationality inside another nation's borders or on top of a desired resource and you can easily find any number of pejorative adjectives/descriptors. (dumb Irishman, tight Scotsman, dirty/filthy Greek(Wog)/Italian(Wop)/Mexican(Wetback), rag/towel head)

If they are not us then they must be other and that my friend is what fosters the mindset which makes it perfectly O.K. to take that which they have and we want. Be it a nerd's money in the playground or the only significant source of tantalum on the globe in the Congo.

And just why is an artificial designation, arbitrarily created by the British Empire as her colonial power waned an apt description? It's not. It's a convenient label which lets us keep to our comfort zone(s) and distance ourselves from the horror we have created or allowed to be done in our (nationalistic) names.

If you(we) must apply labels to the people killed in these bombings, how about picking some which are inclusive rather than exclusive. Mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, children?

i understand what it means and how its used. i see no exploitation of "the other" when somebody's saying those poor Iraqis. that's all.

that's like bitching at somebody who says "those poor Katrina victims!" by going "hey why are you singling them out, they're just PEOPLE, why do you have to label them?!"

Honestly, there are so many other things to pinpoint and correct, I'm curious why you chose somebody's sympathetic pleas to pinpoint. It seem awfully callous amd matter-of-fact, while completely missing the point.

the bombing in the Green Zone on Tuesday put a contingency plan in place for the dickster.

What's gonna be next? Maybe a 25-megaton hydrogen bomb that takes out tens of thousands of people.

Last count I saw wss 160 killed and CNN is still reporting 140 -

Also heard three marines killed today

There are so many dead in the morgue that peoople have to watch videos of the bodies to identify them, they can't get into the morgue because there are too many people trying to crowd in

lunacy, absolute lunacy - and we are waiting for the prick James Baker the fixer to make it all better....

Get the jump on this Dems - cut off the funding for the madness

and may God have mercy on their souls........

probably will. What purpose does the US Military and Mercs in Iraq serve?

on the march. Meanwhile Bushco was with him family eating turkey.

Bring 'em home, yes.

But, there's no limit to "worse"

Whether the US is there or not, "worse" is always a distinct possibility.