175 killed in north Iraq bombings
By John Amato Monday Aug 13, 2007 5:30pmAt least 175 people were killed when three suicide bombers driving fuel tankers attacked a town, home to an ancient minority sect, in northern Iraq on Tuesday in one of the worst single incidents in the four-year-old war. Iraqi army Captain Mohammad al-Jaad said at least another 200 people were wounded in the bombings in separate Yazidi neighborhoods in the town of Kahtaniya, west of Mosel.
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There are some things more important than being frist.
A bombing? That's a phucking phrist.
Just more death brought to you by the "Pro life" administration.
But...but...but, everything is going so much better......
I'm so glad the surge is working and we're moving forward! Joy!
This is sad. I see that the surge is going GREEEEEEEEEEAT!
Seriously, this is just sad. This will go on for centuries wether we are there, or not.
Tweety Bird just announced this breaking news on Hardball as....
"Exciting news out of Iraq".
In the words of Eminem:
God, these people make me so ill.
~Nyc
Horrible. I think USA Today has egg on their face after their front-page headline from yesterday--especially the last paragraph--
I guess someone forgot to tell the suicide bombers that the surge is working.
It'll be interesting seeing who they blame for this. Can they blame al-Qaeda and Iran at the same time?
Wonder how Bush spins this without fatboy to write the script.
I am so embarrassed to be an American. What has my country done?
Right about now Bush is fly fishing on a lake in Kennebunkport somewhere unfazed.
Nyc W. Alberts @ 7:
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I would be the last person on earth to defend Tweety, but his newscast(?) are recorded
early in the day, so what you saw was probably a tape and the recent development in
Iraq occurred after he did his usual BS show..
Here's more about this illegal war.
http://www.antiwar.com/index9876.htmlDid Chris really use the word "exciting"? If he did, he is one sick son of a bitch.
Jesus, what the hell has been done in our name and how do we ever make it up to those people for using their country, their front yard and their homes so we could fight our freakin' bloody war there so we wouldn't mess things up over here. It was a sin and it always will be.
Clearly, the surge is working. I know because Bill Kristol and Fixed Noise said so.
My guess is that they'll find out that one of the bombers had a cousin who knew a guy whose uncle once sold a pair of shoes to someone who may have known a butcher who sold a lambchop to a member of al-Qaeda so it must be al-Qaeda affiliated.
"It’ll be interesting seeing who they blame for this. Can they blame al-Qaeda and Iran at the same time?"
They'll blame the terrorist enabling left/Democrats for it, surely. After all, it's somehow the fault of those who didn't support this invasion and advised against it for all the needless deaths.
Did we turn another corner with this attack? Just how many deaths makes a corner anyway?
The Yazidis....so it would appear that the Sunni's have gone out of their way to provide some hallmark moments for the Yazidi tribes people...Apparently their religion consists of worshiping an angel of some sorts....not sure yet...but it looks like they worship a fallen angel..they consider both the Quran and the Bible to be sacred.Their religion starts about 600-750 ad ...just another freindly get together courtesy of Jorge Booosh.........whack a mole.....here today....gone to Mosul
You know a better president and a better man would not take another day vacation if he fucked up as bad as George Bush has. But not Commander Guy. He doesn't give two shits about all of his fuck ups, the trillion dollars we are paying for his lie based war, and the countless thousands of innocents who have lost life and limb because of his incompetence and deceit. This lying, lazy, incompetent, low life of a vacation president is enjoying his time off in Kennebunkport unfazed by all the death and destruction he has caused.
Never worked for anything his whole life. Never been held accountable for his decisions. Not then, not now.
You have to look at this from the glass half full perspective. Now there are fewer people to protect and fewer suicide bombers to catch. Eventually, Iraq will be as peaceful as Antarctica.
I find it amazing that Bush can make a total monster like Saddam seem like the lesser evil, that Saddam's dictatorship under international sanctions now looks like the good old days.
And this is in the Kurdish north. Iraq continues to pull itself apart, and Baghdad is a checkerboard of blocks controlled by various militias and sects.
Did I mention you all need to see "No End In Sight"? Good.
Come on, stop reporting on the bombing of the day, it depresses the good people of America...
Thank you Laura B. I feel better now.
Fox News' web site has a line mention compared to the breaking news coverage of cnn/msnbc dot-com.
Eh, it's only 175 Iraqis. Big whip.
These maybe the lucky ones after reading this:
http://www.gnn.tv/headlines/15058/Baghdad_Without_Water
I'll take the under in min of TV time this gets on Billo and Hannity
Send the recalled lead painted toys to Al Caeda.
The terrorists will suffer memory loss and forget how to build bombs.
and to think that things were going swimmingly in the north.......the kurds have been very peacefull during this whole thing.....so now the Sunni's (the ones that Boosh picked to side with)are now going after them.......just another thoughtfull insight to Herr Dubya.....
Ruthless People @ 23:
But History will haunt him and his name for eternity...his kids are stupid,but not that stupid..surely they have some friends who think that Herr Dubya...has screwed up.
This whole wack-a-mole surg thing???? Not really workin out, I don't care how much spin the idiotic lap-dog MSM and military p.r. flacks or even generals tries to put on it..... A working process to rachet down the violence and create stability out of chaos, 'surg' or call it what you will... is not going to have these kinds of daily occurances of violence with deaths and maimings often numbering into the hundreds happening six months down the road of its implementation... Not a valid process, not anything approaching success... And given all the pros and cons... not likely to be any more successful in the long run than any of Bush's other braindead ideas.....Just not working, not going to work.....................Just won't....JD
credit where credit is due....it was either Snowball,Strawberry or Pissed off Patricia who said.............Surge = Escalation......yep.
every fucking time a politician (mccain) or a media person ( the 2 assholes just sent by the pentagon) go to iraq and come back and report how wonderful things are becoming, the insurgents then pull off an enormous attack which kills hundreds.
Isnt it something.
We have the same Main Stream Media and media pundits we had before the war started, the same media that was embedded, and the SAME media pundits that are still talking that got us into the mess in the first place.
The so called "media" does not give a consistent true voice to the Real experts, the soldiers, veterans, their familes, professors or global affair experts - the ones that have had it RIGHT from the beginning:
Informed Comment Global Affairs:
http://icga.blogspot.com
http://www.antiwar.com
a site from a man and his concerned friends who traveled around the country over a year ago
who helped to give voice to soldiers and veterans who have all been through this before.
http://www.neilyoung.com/lwwtoday/index.html
WWKS (What would Kristol Say)..."Hey, it's not in the "surge" area...Things are better. Moral is high. Its still working."
You see ladies and gentlemen? Things are getting Better!
:-(
IMPEACH.
Gore/Obama/Anyone but Bush '08
It's obvious the surge has failed.
This is horrible, horrible news. 175 people slaughtered by four suicide bombers?
How many more innocents have to die for Bush's war OF terror? How can Bush sleep at night any more than any of these Islamic extremists who advocate this behavior?
God doesn't exist in a world where something as horrible as this can happen. Just pull the troops all out and let the chips fall where they may in Iraq. They don't want a democracy, just get out now and leave Iraq to it's own devices, capture and kill Osama Bin Laden and just let the crazies in the Middle East destroy each other.
The people in the Middle East are NUTS! So just let them sort this whole bloody mess out themselves. Screw Iraq and screw the Middle East. We are only making it worse by staying in that cesspool.
Carmikl @ 10:
Why would they do that? We all know it's the Clinton's fault. O'Hanlon is probably saying, "Never mind that puff of smoke; nothing to see there, everything’s wonderful!"
Smack_dab @ 21:
Well, if we turn a corner with each death then every time we have four deaths, we're right back where we started from.
Sinto @ 40:
Too bad presdent dickwad didn't ask if the wanted democracy before he bombed the hell out of them. Actually, to bad he didn't give Americans the chance to keep their democracy. If the people in the middle east are nuts, what do you call the 60 or 80% of Americans that backed bushco while they thought you were winning?
The US has already screwed Iraq. It has already screwed the middle east. You broke it, you fix it. Get out and send money.
As for Bin Laden, look for him in some palace in Saudi, not in any cave in Afghanistan.
Typical liberal media! Focusing on the 175 Iraqis who were killed. What about all those Iraqis who weren't killed!
And remember: It's only a democracy when the Arabs vote for the people we like!
Johnny2bad @ 38:
Hey, don't give Faux Noise any suggestions/help in reporting this most recent event.
I can already see/hear Brit Hummm, Barnes, Gibson, O'Liely and Hannity saying exactly
that..."This did not happen in the "surge" area" therefore the surge is working". Almost
repeativite of when Shiites fought Shiites day before yesterday in the South of Iraq..
"well it was not in Bagdah where we have the additional troops to quell the insurgents"
What BS Faux Noise and ALL of the MSM speews forth; lies and misinformation.
I saw this on Yahoo News (by the way, longer article available here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070814/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq )
I hadn't heard about the Yazidi, but its an interesting group. More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yazidi
From Yahoo:
Even if it is Al Qaeda in Iraq who is responsible for this, it warrants mention that Al Qaeda wasn't in Iraq before George Bush was. And maybe George could have guarded that 380 tons of high explosives; or he could have tried to secure the borders a little better to prevent the Mujahadeen from moving in.
Badr Brigade is buying machine guns from the Italian mafia. I was reading about it at Juan Cole's blog. He thinks the Badr and Mahdi militias are getting set to throw down. Sounds like we'll need another splurge!
Old Billy @ 46:
And could have have provided much better accountability and security for the 190,000 weapons that have "gone missing"...and probably in the hands of the insurgents by now.
pissed off patricia @ 16:
Yup, It sure as hell did.
I was just passing thru the room when I heard It do it and it damn near gave me a case of whiplash.
Just to make sure, I did the dvr rewind thingy, to confirm, and I'm torn.
I dunno if the look on It's face, and the glint in It's eye, when It said it, disgusts me more than It actually saying it.
I don't know if anybody's noticed, but I go out of my way to keep my language clean here, but in Tweety Bird's case here, I'll make an exception....
It's one messed up, and absolutely sick and malevolent son of a bitch, that gets off on this and when the time comes for It....
I hope It's GE/MSFT paychex were worth it.
Makes me want to puke.
~Nyc
Let me guess ... Petraeus sees this as a sign that we can't leave .... EVER.
Fortunately, the surge IS working... had there been no "surge", there probably would have been 1,000 killed today.
Things are actually going great over there for the neo-cons b/c their main objective right now is for the Iraqi people to kill each other which in turn results in constant instability and our continued, never ending presence....permanent bases, etc.
Ah yes, another website filled with brainwashed Americans.
It's a good thing the terrorists don't attack places where the US deosn't have troops (because the US cannot defend everywhere at once) in order to influence the gullible American minds into believing the surge isn't working. I mean, if we attack people that have nothing to do with anything, innocent civillians, the American people wouldn't possibly blame the Bush administration. No, as terrorists we can't use the news media in order to fight a political war that would undermine a military we cannot defeat.
Wake up will ya? If I could curse I would be right now. You people really sicken me with how gullible and foolish you are. Terrorists are winning, and it has nothing to do with the surge, Bush or the military. It has to do with your inability to see the whole picture. Then again, all my words are wasted, you'll find some way to call me a Bush lover (as if supporting the president of the US is an insult...which is frightening to realize our society has dropped into that hole) or some sort of war monger. In the end, anything I say will fall on deaf ears unwilling to listen because mine isn't the popular view.
All hail the media. All hail Fenton. All hail Soros! May America be socialized and fall into the same pit as all great societies before it.
Glad I live in Japan...you people sicken me.
[...] Not too well, I see. [...]
Pat @ 53:
Glad you live in Japan, too, Pat. Would you please work on moving the rest of your ilk over there?
Pat @ 53:
So desu ne!
At least that's what the Christian terrorists are claiming.
I would bet that these bombings are mostly committed by the Christian terrorists sent by the Bush regime. There's no way the Christofascists can seize control of Iraq's oil so they're going to make sure that NOBODY can.
Why would al-Qaeda attack the Yazidi people? They are very small sect of Zoroastrian people who have no army, and attacking them would inflame neither the Sunnis or the Shiites. Blaming al-Qaeda seems entirely too convenient here because they have nothing to gain. It's not their modus operandi. Al-Qaeda tries to pit one side against the other and the Yazidi aren't likely to take up arms against anyone. It looks more like ethnic cleansing by either the Sunnis or the Kurds.
[Deleted. Flamebait. You WOULD look at it that way. Please go back to LGF-Sitemonitor]
CNN is now reporting that the death toll in these bombings in Iraq have risen to 500+.
The deadliest day in Iraq history since the invasion.
Yes, the surge is working, the elimination of the Iraqi population is proceeding according to plan.
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