Breaking - bombings in Iraq - at least 58 dead

malaise

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Fri Apr-23-10 09:01 AM
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Breaking - bombings in Iraq - at least 58 dead

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm who's watching the Dick?

breaking on GEM$NBC

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ShortnFiery

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Fri Apr-23-10 09:02 AM
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1. Damn! Weren't we told that "the surge" solved everything?!?

:eyes:

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Mari333

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Fri Apr-23-10 09:04 AM
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2. we knew it would happen years ago when we occupied them for their oil

and murdered their people

and the war criminals sit in luxury with speaking engagements, selling books.

we knew, we said it, no one listened.

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Karmadillo

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Fri Apr-23-10 09:04 AM
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3. We won. Don't they know that? Why is this still happening?

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madokie

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Fri Apr-23-10 09:06 AM
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4. My first thought

whose watching the dick and rummy too

after all they both have a lot of reasons to be worried about what is happening there as it is their offspring, their baby. :hi:

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malaise

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Fri Apr-23-10 09:09 AM
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5. The withdrawal process is going too well

and was in the news earlier this week. Kaboom - explosions again!

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kenny blankenship

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Fri Apr-23-10 09:11 AM
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6. Meanwhile the ruling coalition (Maliki) has ordered a surprise "recount" of Baghdad's votes

Edited on Fri Apr-23-10 09:18 AM by kenny blankenship

and the challenger (Allawi, who took the majority of votes in the Baghdad region) is already accusing the govt of stealing ballots there.

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tekisui

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Fri Apr-23-10 09:28 AM
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7. Extended political vacuum+Violence/Insecurity= Bad bad bad.

If this blows up into reciprocating sectarian violence or civil war, I can see the Pentagon/Obama using it to delay the withdrawal.

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kenny blankenship

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Fri Apr-23-10 10:00 AM
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8. yeah but look on the bright side:

The worst has probably already happened over there. One in every twenty five Iraqis is dead, and another is displaced. Iraq's urban areas have been ethnically cleansed (Basra) or partitioned and partly ethnically cleansed (Baghdad). That's what our counter insurgency geniuses call a civil war "burning itself out". There's not much more to destroy. So whatever happens as factions fight over the tattered remains of Iraq, it probably won't look as bad as before to a media that is mostly not watching anymore. And so with the help of the media and government, Americans will conclude huh, I guess it's going OK now

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