Double Bombing in Baghdad: 53 killed, 125 wounded
By John Amato Wednesday Mar 05, 2008 2:30pmCNN's Kyra Phillips is reporting that two bomb attacks killed 53 and wounded as many as 125.
Fifty-three people were killed and 125 were wounded in two bomb attacks Thursday evening in a Baghdad commercial district, an Interior Ministry official said. A roadside bomb exploded first, around 7 p.m., in the central Baghdad district of Karrada, killing and wounding a number of people, the Interior Ministry official said.
As others gathered to help the wounded, a suicide bomber amid the crowd detonated an explosive vest, killing and wounding many more, the official said. The majority of causalities occurred during the second attack, the official said.
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Heck'uva a job Bushie.
Sad news. Just sad.
Clear evidence that the surge is working!
Looks like bomb attacks are on the move in Iraq ............
So glad to hear everything's still going so well over there. Rah, Surge!
Seriously, though, this is heartbreaking ... and even more so because Iraq usually gets buried on the back pages (if covered at all) since American death counts started going down.
Repubs: " it saved lives".
Just from the portion that C&L posted it is clear that the "surge" mainly in and around Baghdad has accomplished little. It is also clear that the Iraqi Government also controls nothing. Whoever carried out this multiple bombing had time to plan for it, select a target where there would be maximum casualties and was able to put their suicide bombers into place before being detected by security forces.
Nothing in Iraq has changed because the many variations of fighters remain and always will. This latest bombing attack is just another horrific shattering of the security illusion that the Bush Administration is trying to create for the American public.
And here I thought the surge was a success. Why isn't this all over MSM? MSNBC just had the skank Coulter on prattling how she might campaign for Hillry, but they don't mention anything about the Iraq and Afghanistan. I get more and more depressed every single day.
I wonder how McBush will spin this?
This must be the last throes of the insurgency.
Bob @ 3:
If even one more person was killed at this time last year, then yeah, that's how they'll spin it.
Wonder if this has anything thing to do with the court releasing the Shi'ite lawmakers accused of killing Sunnis?
Heck of a surge, Bushie.
"The Iraq war will last six days, six weeks, I doubt six months"
~ Donald '666' Rumsfeld
So it looks like the infamous "surge" has surged itself out now? It never did work without Bush paying Al Sadr $1.2 billion a week for a cease fire as a "payoff" for helping to make Bush and McSame look good (along with Betray-us, of course).
So what is it? Is Bush's Surge working or not? Can't have it both ways? Frankly, I think his surge has $hit the bed myself.
pete @ 13:
Thanks for the reminder, Pete, of yet another bold-faced lie in our faces. Someday Rummy, Deadeye, and Chimpy will be strung up by their gonads for what they've done and the crimes they've committed.
Hats off to Vermont for issuing warrants for their arrest. If every state would do so, they'd all be run out of the country. Either that or we could slap their sick patoots right into jail for a very long time.
casper46 @ 12:
That is a definite possibility.
We know why this happened: Bush didn't cough up his $1.2 million this week to Al Sadr. That's what's going on. Blackmail, folks.
mclame and bush should go shoppng in bagdad, since this
is how they promote the u s economy.
it's a win-win for everyone
osiris @ 17:
isn't al sadr a cousin of bush's once removed
Did these dead and wounded count as points? Or they on the exemption list ?
We don't count civilian dead, remember?
Shorter Fox News tonight: "Whoa! Quick! Look over here! Barak HUSSEIN Obama! Nine-Eleven! Blond girl overboard! Celebrity rehab! Hilary's laugh! Shiny keys, look look!"
(Shorter concept invented by some crabby-ass guy who insists they post this disclaimer at Sadly, No! every time they use this basically intuitive idea)
Dhalgren @ 21:
Collatoral damage.
As Congressman Murtha and others have pointed out, it is the antagonistic presence of the U.S. military that is inflaming the resistance fighters. Still, all the major presidential contenders are against the immediate withdrawal of the troops from that slaughterhouse in Iraq. Having American forces in the Middle East is exactly what the foreign fighters had hoped the U.S. would do and the U.S. stupidly went ahead and has done exactly that. The Democrats seem to be engaging in a contest to determine who between the two of them is the most militaristic to qualify for the belligerent title of commander in chief. All the more reason to seriously think of voting for an alternative such as a third party candidate in 2008, who would believe that the best way of supporting the troops is to extricate them out of that abyss as quickly and as rapidly as possible, which would mean, contrary to the Democrats' wishes, an immediate, not a phased withdrawal, of those troops from Iraq. It also does not mean leaving them to linger and fight al Qaeda [which is exactly what the foreign jihadists want the Americans to do] or have them stationed "over the horizon."
Bring them home-alive and in one piece-NOW.
I am so sick of this kind of news. Does Weathervane McCain just ignore it or is his dumbass out of the loop when crap like this happens?
I want a reporter to ask him about this 'development' I want them to ask him what this says about the 'surge' working. Sadly..none of the reporters will have the nads to ask him this.
Dusty @ 25:
If it didn't kill any American troops, is the surge working?
How many Americans were killed? None? Nothing to see hear, we'll bury this story. Up next, who is winning American Idol.....and....Britney Spears shows her cooter in public again. We have the full story next.
Oh....so this is what the U.S.S. Condoleeza Rice meant by the 'birthpangs of a new Middle East'
O.T. but I think it is something that people should be asking about.
http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/Texas_GOP_voted_Hillary/2008/03/05/78...
Remember: John McCain doesn't care about this - because they weren't Americans.
Stay the course.
The most expensive war and occupation in history must continue!
The government of the United States has for over a century meddled in the affairs of countries all over the world. Look at almost every coup in South and Central America and you'll see the hand of the United States involved. Indonesia and the Philippines in the '60's, Iran in the '70's, Ukraine and Georgia in recent years are all places that the American government has put their own man in power. Of course, their man is usually a brutal dictator. Just ask the people of Chile or Argentina. It doesn't matter if the person they put into power is a tyrant of the worst resort, so long as he's willing to tow the line to the policy of the United States their happy. Iraq is no different than the dozens of other countries that the U. S. has raped. I'm absolutely amazed that any U. S. citizen can walk anywhere else in the world without being spat on at the very least. The record of horrors that the government has sponsored is a long, bloody, sordid one. The attacks of 9/11 are retaliation for official U.S. government policy that creates enormous suffering around the world. I feel that in the future as the American empire begins to fall worse and bloodier blowback attacks will happen to the U.S. That's of course if the U.S. doesn't blow up the world and kill us all.
Don't concern yourselves with a double bombing. Go shopping instead, and focus on a double cheeseburger. The chimperor hath so commanded. It just McAint our concern as good consumers.
They were brown people so it doesn't really count now does it? If it were Americans, well that would be completely different. Its kinda like murders in the slums. Tell me when some pretty white girl goes missing.
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The war OF terrorism is going swimmingly... IN BLOOD!
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Apparently the left-wing, commie hippies at this site don't realize that...
THE WAR IS OVER AND WE WON!!!!
At least that's what I get listening to all the cable news channels...the war is a non presence there these days.
If 53 people are brutally killed in Bhagdad and it's not reported here in the US, DID IT REALLY HAPPEN?
Are we winning the hearts and minds or wounding the hearts and minds?
And a note to our genius Pres., the history major, who may have had a hangover the day the responsibilities of an invading occupying force were gone over. The commander in chief has the responsibility to provide for the safety of his charges, jackass. Just goes to show you COWARDS can never lead!
Ron @ 29:
And irony is that the cross over voters couln't vote Republican for their local candidates.
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and in israel, terrorists killed at least 7 at a college seminary...while in gaza, they celebrated
Thanks for nothin' George. Ya putz.
Guess teh headline below sums it up:
"The price of the war in Iraq and the ’stuff of nightmares’"
Can you imagine living there for even 1 day? I cant.
wagonjak @ 35:
LOL
If a tree fell in the forest and no one was there, did it fall? Make a noise? Displace a birds nest? Fall on thumper?
http://www.hafdis.dk/pictures/silly/animals/The%203%20monkeys.jpg
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Dave @ 31:
We're number one, we're number one,we're number one.......
yellow dog @ 9:
Wont even have to.
"[Shrug] ... price a' Freedom, now watch this drive, hehehe."
uncle joe mccarthy @ 38:
Yet no one mentions the hundreds killed in the last weeks battles in Gaza by Israel.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/960338.html
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/D5E2E344-E9E7-42E3-8CEB-71EBC3515...
http://iafrica.com/news/worldnews/169083.htm
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The Bush administration yesterday advanced a new argument for why it does not require congressional approval to strike a long-term security agreement with Iraq, stating that Congress had already endorsed such an initiative through its 2002 resolution authorizing the use of force against Saddam Hussein.
The 2002 measure, along with the congressional resolution passed one week after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks authorizing military action "to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States," permits indefinite combat operations in Iraq, according to a statement by the State Department's Bureau of Legislative Affairs.
The statement came in response to lawmakers' demands that the administration submit to Congress for approval any agreement with Iraq. U.S. officials are traveling to Baghdad this week with drafts of two documents -- a status-of-forces agreement and a separate "strategic framework" -- that they expect to sign with the Iraqi government by the end of July. It is to go into effect when the current U.N. mandate expires Dec. 31
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/05/AR200803...
The wars and killing rage on. Yesterday, Bush was dancing, laughing, joking and making a complete ass of himself (as he always does) while waiting for McCain. The press lapped it up, as usual. Good times, eh.
Once more...
Can they keep down the noise over there....I can't hear freedom ringing.
osiris @ 17:
Maybe Bloomberg SHOULD run for President...then he can pay for this clusterfuck out of his own pocket.
Max-1 @ 43:
first, it was israel's response to daily rocket attacks
second...anyone in israel dancing in the street during the operation???
get some perspective
try and get past your hatred of the jew
Bombing in Jerusalem that killed 7 is the Breaking News now on all the major news sites, 55 killed in Baghdad deserves an almost invisible link right under. Wow! Is little more objectivity really too much to ask?
RayC @ 33:
Isn't this the truth. They're still holding memorials for the VA Tech massacre, yet few people realize that equivalent tragedies occur in Iraq weekly. If this were happening in the US with such frequency, the nation would be at a standstill and China's manufacturing base would be put in overdrive to produce the 'memory ribbons', teddy bears and candles.
Wow....they have to be "lovin'" their new democracy and freedom.
What a waste of human life. Nice going chimp. And mcbush want's 100 more years of this shit?
Let him move over there.
uncle joe mccarthy @ 48:
Isn't that always the way it goes. Criticize Israel and you're instantly labeled "anit-semetic". Israel always goes way to far with their retaliations. One Israeli is killed by a rocket and Israel kills 150 or so Palestinian men, women and children. How many do think they'll kill to make up for the 7 dead today? I don't condone the attacks that the Palestinians make, but I certainly understand why they do them. Israel has kept the Palestinians in virtual lockdown for over half a century. Could you imagine living in a refugee camp for 3 generations? Do you think that has anything to do with the hatred and frustration that the Plaestinians have? Israel could have made peace with their neighbours years ago, but refused time and time again to make any concessions. The unemployment rate in the Palestinian sections is over 50%. That's because now that a million or so Russian Jews emigrated to Israel and are willing to do the jobs that the Palestinians used to do, the Palestinian workers are now redundant. Total hopelessness always breeds anger and retaliation.
uncle joe mccarthy @ 48:
It’s no wonder that McCain envisions 100 years in Iraq. The Middle East is a fucked up place. There will always be war. Stay away. There is nothing for you here. I wonder what these people think is happiness.
Hey here's an idea. We pack our bags and get the hell out and let them do what they are going to do anyway.
Hop and run captain?
kind of strange Kyra Phillips travels thousands of miles to report from the " Green Zone " , something any reporter could have done , standing in the middle of the night . But that's not why she is there , she is there to produce feel good stories like the Baghdad symphony or Dance Group or Blind Iraqi kids, NOT the ones blinded by U.S. bombing .
Kyra millions of Iraqis are drinking contaminated water .
Millions are homeless .
Millions have virtually no income .
Millions (the majority want the U.S. out, end to the occupation ).Have a town hall meeting with Iraqis and let them explain why they want the U.S. out .
Sewage is huge health problem .
NO, she WON'T touch ANY of those topics , the most important issues to Iraqis . She'll stick to the MSM narrative and try to distract and misinform .
sonofabitch.(shaking my head)oh yeah,we're bringing them freedom alright.
Many wars have been fought over natural resources.this one didn't have to happen.
If they would've only opened their eyes,and looked into the future for a newer way to provide energy.and in the process,created more jobs here at home.
numb skulls.
(Sigh)... More death and mayhem in Iraq... At this point? Just another day at the office.....Surge on! Ahmm yea... Surge working? Ehh not so much...despite the propaganda machine...
But hey it's only costing 2 trillion total thus far... Chump change for a paranoid sociopath who jussst can't feel safe enough, doesn't ever feel powerful enough or ever have enough toys to play with.... And the answer for the daily double question is... Who am I talking about.. Dick or George...or is it both?.............JD
Dave @ 31:
The affairs of countries all over the world. Hmm, you mean like Mao? Stalin? Hitler? Hirohito?
A century ago, there were no Geneva Conventions, no UN, and countries were free to interfere with countries all over the world, and did.
If you want to make a basket out of a century's events, and pretend to an analysis, it's like beating yourself with a history book. It takes A LOT more context than you put into your screed. Oh wait! The typical leftist screed has no context, which is why it is such great nonsense.
'There are no enemies other than the U.S.' is the happy talk leftism of simpletons.
thank god the surge has worked....oh wait a minute.
Surge this, motherfucker.
War's a blast.
fastfeat @ 61:
D'ya ever notice how chummy Anna Nicole Smith was with her nearly grown son?
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