Iraq'd - Massacre In Diyala
AP Via Yahoo:
Dozens of Shiite villagers in the north were massacred by Sunni extremists, two officials said Tuesday, while a car bomb exploded across the street from the Iranian Embassy in the heart of Baghdad and killed four civilians.
Police Col. Ragheb Radhi al-Omairi said 29 members of a Shiite tribe were massacred overnight in Diyala province when dozens of suspected Sunni gunmen raided their village near Muqdadiyah, about 60 miles northeast of Baghdad. The dead included four women, al-Omairi said.
An Iraqi army officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not supposed to release the information, said the attack occurred in the village of Diwailiya and that at least 10 bodies were mutilated in the hour-long raid. Read more...
(Nicole: IraqSlogger notes 158 Iraqis killed; 268 Iraqis wounded and 2 American troops reported killed. Is that progress? UPDATE: This is the same Diyala President Bush has been holding up as a success story from Iraq.)
Fill a buster first?
The Iraqi Horror Picture Show continues.
On "Pace" with the general's prediction. Things are getting better.
Ya know what I'm REALLY tired of?
Black and White people not getting along in the US.
The barriers to that possibility are set in place by
the cold blooded souls among us.
Are YOU that person?
Why, god damnit, just friggin' why? So the violence in Bagdad has just moved to other places...now what Bush ya friggin' genius? Oh let's see, surge Diyala...OK boys pack it up, roll 'em out to Diyala....wait which way did they go? Back to Baghdad? Poo, ok boys, back to Baghdad....
Those lazy assed Iranians. Walk across the street and set off a bomb Don't they know our dauntless CIA guys will investigate
No civil war there. Nope, not there.
It's just that democracy and evangelical jubilation is exploding all over the place. Sinners get out of the way of the Lord.
If progress means killing all the Iraqis in the country, I guess progress is being made.
What the hell are these people dying for? If you saw that clip last night showing what the the Night line program was going to be about, you saw so damned many of them are dying simply because they are where they are. Soldiers are tired and pissed. The Iraqis are tired and pissed. So why the hell must it continue? Because one half braindead man and his friends say it should. They have nothing to lose as it goes on. Their reputations are shot to hell so they just sit back and bet on the odds.
Is this that annoying one bombing a day that Laura Bush said the Iraqis must just tolerate?
Now is the time to hit the streets people. NOW is the time not soon.........NOW
but this is *still* not enough to pull the Iraqi Parliament in from their vacations into
HOTHOTHOT Baghdad to do something about the mayhem.
I'm starting to wonder already whether it's probable the MPs will see asylum in other
countries or the USA rather than return to Parliament. they've already shown they have no
courage, or indeed are part of the problem (feeding info to the killers)
ot, but why do we have a commander in chief if the generals are running the war? And where is the War Czar and why haven't we heard from him?
"BAGHDAD (AFP) - Gunmen dressed in Iraqi military uniforms stormed a village in the restive Iraqi province of Diyala northeast of Baghdad overnight and murdered 29 people, security officials said Tuesday."
Or was it the Iraqi military acting like gunmen?
Are these the same Sunni's that are being supplied with weapons from Saudi Arabia, boy Bush's friends? Hummmm... maybe we need to bomb Saudi Arabia and stop the flow of weapons to Sunni insurgents in Iraq.
Now General Peter Ann Pace is saying the war is going very well, so what you are reporting must be a figment of your imagination.
This man is morally bankrupt.
The only answer is impeachment.
Jack Jett
www.jackejett.com
I'm tired of Lieberman and Graham's rose colored cataracts. They memory hole these incidents to play cheerleader for Bush
miss skeptic @ 9:
She's missing the news. Laura spends her time in the Rose Garden smoking cigarettes. Boy Bush, he sits in his office an fiddles while the world burns.
moniker @ 11:
I was thinking the same question. What is the War Czar going to do about all this killing?
And Ugly-mug Mitch McConnell says all this Iraq business is merely about 'politics'. Yeah, right Mitch you bitch. You just believe that as more innocent Iraqis are killed because of the heightened violence wrought by Bush and his historically ill-fated decision to invade Iraq. Tell that, you rat-faced douche, to all those families of the victims of this sort of violence. you are a wretched human being who breaks every mirror he looks into. yes i dont like you, if it wasn't clear.
The Iraqi People will Greet us with Flowers and Candy!
http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ss/1479/im:/070716/481/f84e4c83fc954fce97ca...
http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ss/1479/im:/070716/481/03299a3a46294132934d...
http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ss/1479/im:/070717/photos_wl/2007_07_17t091...
Bush is still listening to "god" talking in his ear (what he said two days ago in front of people in a meeting) think he is delusional?....naw...just completely whacked.
Meanwhile the Republican Scare Machine is running full bore, New AQ threats, Maybe homegrown terra-ist, now Iraq (or EYE-Rack if you republican) is supposedly sending men trained in Eye-rack here to 'murica to attack us at home. Gulianni probably wishing for this.
Don't they know that we are finally hip to their stupid lying asses?
but the sunni's are helpin us with stoppin them terrorists..
man, the Iran war is gonna be awesome! 6 days tops.
americahatesearth @ 22:
And with Surgical Precision!
L.A. Confidential @ 23:
shock and awe... oopps already done that one
exit7a @ 24:
Shock and Slaw!
There aint' no heros anymore son. In order to make money ya got to have a bogeyman. Burp. Waiter, bring us another couple Old Bushmills on ice.
It's okay. Joe Lieberman says we're making progress, so that's enough for me.
/no it's not
//Lieberman can like my toejam
Give me a break. There is so much about the Iraq war that merits angry and relentless criticism, but your "Is that progress?" scolding is idiotic. This war has been going on for years now, and I'm going to take a wild guess, a wild stab in the dark, a crazy prediction: tomorrow more people on all sides are going to die, no matter what. No matter what. If you are going to define "progress" as no more death in Iraq on a daily basis, your definition may be better than the Bush administration's but it is just as impossible, unfair, unhelpful, delusional, self-serving and juvenile. The machinery of war is absurdly large and is has immense inertia. It is difficult to even slow, let alone stop, once it gets started. But don't confuse brutality with senselessness. Wise up and get real.
Hmm, 158 Iraqis killed, 268 wounded, 2 american soldiers killed.
Do those numbers seem right to you? If indeed they are correct, does that mean we're WINNING?
(Barf bags conveniently located to the right of the entrance) yeah, chockfull of innuendo.
Maybe someone should let William "the Bloody" Kristol know that one-half of his Diyala/Anbar model of progress in Iraq is faltering. On second thought, never mind, he wouldn't care.
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The Iraqis are screwed any direction we take.
Fantastic.
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I go back to why they won't settle their differences. The oil companies want the oil. The insurgents don't want to give away 70% of their natural resources. Maliki and the parliment don't want to give up the control of their oil resources. Why do you think Maliki said that we could leave any time we wanted. Why do you think they won't come up with an oil agreement. The agreements were drawn up by the administration and the oil companies. That is why Bush won't get us out of Iraq.
I wonder if these "Sunni Extremists" are part of the new anti Al Qaeda Sunni allies of the US and if they received their weapons from the US Army. After all, the Shiites are Iran's allies, so US enemies, aren't they ?
telecom @ 29:
Is that you William Kristol?
None of you have any idea what vision our Boy King has for Iraq. It involves killing every single terr'rist, because they are responsible for 9/11 -- the greatest day in the Bush presidency.
We Americans shoot or kick-shit out of each other over road-rage or what professional team we root for; and we envision these different sects to forgive and forget these atrocities – the bombings and beheadings – ASAP; and kiss and make up!? Fuck! The hatred will continue for generations.
Great thinking through on this one Chimp & Co.
Our tax dollars at work? I want a refund. They can keep a couple hundred to fund the FAA so a plane doesn’t land on my house.
It is not our Tax dollars at work people. It is hatred at work. Our "Dear Leader" didn't study history enough to understand even the basics of the aweful dynamics of the Middle East. This sort of hatred takes centuries to settle, and fewer centries if Western powers didn't poke their noses in societies in which they are hated more than each other.
Anyways, the Iraqis are screwed. I can smell the mass graves now. Though, Jihadis, etc. don't seem to even bother digging graves.
SHIT!
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redratio1 @ 40:
Actually, that tax dollar post was meant for another C & L item.
I agree with you, Iraq will not be fit for stray dogs, much less Iraqi citizens, for decades. Chimp's slack-jawed blunder of a Crusade will cost millions of lives.
My nextdoor neighbor is career army (15 years). He is on his third tour and in Diyala.
Moon @ 42:
When he gets home, tell him Thanks from all of us.
God, keep him safe and sound.
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