Mission Accomplished Day! Double suicide bombing at Iraqi wedding kills 35
Yes, happy Mission Accomplished Day or happy Tweety Day. I'm glad the war is over, our troops are home safe and sound and the Iraqi people are living comfortably as they rebuild their country with all those oil profits. Sorry, I was day dreaming for a second:
A pair of suicide bombers blew themselves up amid a wedding convoy Thursday in northeastern Iraq, killing 35 people and wounding 65 others, Iraqi authorities said.
A wedding convoy was driving slowly when the first suicide bomber detonated an explosive vest, the official said. When bystanders and police gathered, a second bomb exploded.
One of the bombers was a woman, the official said.Women and children were among the casualties.This attack involved the fourth female suicide bomber in Iraq in 11 days...read on
And then there's this too: "Casualties Mount in Ongoing US Assault on Sadr City."
The ongoing US assault on the Sadr City area of Baghdad continues to claim civilian lives. At least eight people, including two children, were killed in overnight clashes between US troops and Shia fighters. The deaths come one day after local hospitals reported at least fifty dead and dozens more wounded from US attacks. On Wednesday, funerals were held for some of the victims. A Sadr City resident said the Iraqi government is unable to stand up to the US occupation.
Meanwhile, US casualties have also reached their highest point in seven months. At least six US troops were killed in the past two days, bringing the April toll to forty-eight, the highest one-month toll since September.
April toll of U.S. dead is actually 51. But who's counting?
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED day!....now what is this war you people are talking about????? Can't you read? (mega snark)
Screw all of 'em...I'm so tired of this administration. They're mass murderers and criminals, and nothing is being done. Bush will issue a blanket pardon when he leaves office, and that will be the end of it.
Bush. War. Criminal.
After all, what do they call it when you kill people?
We're still training Iraqi troops and police to deal with this stuff aren't we?
maxcat06 @ 3:
Pretty much it.
Hey George, where's you buddy Betrayus now? This is success? I guess Let Freedom Ring.
Mission Accomplished Day (aka chickenhawk flag-waving day)
American stupidity knows no bounds.
Sect Def Cheney (1991) - The Gulf War: A First Assessment
I have had it with tools like Charles DeWolfe Gibson. Arianna says McCain supports endless war in Iraq, and he says "You know that's not true. He's talking about what we have in Germany or Korea."
This is really quite simple. Ask him this:
"Mr. McCain: You have said "If we leave Iraq prematurely, the jihadists will interpret the withdrawal as their great victory". Is there any limit to how long you would be willing to have American troops fight and die in Iraq to prevent that?"
Unless Jeremiah Wright was involved, the nightly news won't notice.
Rather than spread "freedom" around the world, why don't we try spreading mockery of the stupid idiots who blow themselves up to please some fantasy god.
Oh, that's right, Bush also believes in a fantasy god. Never mind.
Ahem....testing...testing...is this thing on....
OK...
CAN THEY PLEASE KEEP THE NOISE DOWN!! I CAN'T HEAR FREEDOM RINGING!!
Sorry, no go
Edited by John Amato
There will be people getting killed as long as we stay in that country, and for fu*king what? This time next week the death toll may have risen and what will those soldiers have died for? This is sort of a bizarre circle of death. It keeps going around and people keep getting killed and no one is willing to try to stop it.
Come on now guys it's not my fault the people hate freedom.
maxcat06 @ 3:
Why what did the blanket do?
Blanket bombing?
the bombers could have just been disgruntled family members that didn't get invited you know...
or they could have been upset that the wedding was on a weekday. Who does that? It's annoying enough when a freaking friend has it on Memorial Day or some weekend I want to drink beer and do nothing...
buttttt noooooo, the have to go having it on a Thursday.
just sayin
ysbaddaden @ 14:
What a stupid comment. It's a tragedy.
pissed off patricia @ 15:
Circle of Death sounds like a Tim Burton version of a Disney song.
Good thing the bushes don't have to worry about that at their piglet's wedding.
This whole family and administration should be taken out, horse whipped, tarred and feathered..and then sent to the can.
Disgusting Americans.
Thanks george, for getting us into this nightmare. I'm sure the Iraqi's thank you too. You totally dumb ass moron!
This just In-
"The west coast ports are shut down from long beach to seattle as thousands of port workers don't show up to work to stage an anti-war protest."
George W. Bush @ 16:
Yes, the Administration had no idea there would be an insurgency. The Administration had no idea that there were not enough troops. The Administration had no idea that there were no WMD. No idea that people would fly planes into buildings. No idea that Al Quada would attack America. No idea, no idea, no idea.
George Bush, a grown man, and his best excuse is "my dog ate my homework".
The only mission that's been accomplished is our country has been figuratively destroyed by this bunch of thugs. And they have managed to literally destroy the country of Iraq.
dIGITALiberacion @ 22:
Social unrest! About time.
Liberal AND Proud @ 25:
That's because commute times are so long now.
ysbaddaden @ 26:
Wanna screw up the government. We should all drive to DC, enmasse, get on the Beltway and PARK.
"A pair of suicide bombers blew themselves up amid a wedding convoy Thursday in northeastern Iraq, killing 35 people and wounding 65 others, Iraqi authorities said.
A wedding convoy was driving slowly when the first suicide bomber detonated an explosive vest, the official said. When bystanders and police gathered, a second bomb exploded"
And they say if the troops pull out of Iraq all hell would break loose. Sounds to me like all hell is breaking loose even if the troops are there.
MikeinMD @ 11:
Exactly !@#$%^&*
Heckuva job, Moron!
"MATTHEWS: Ann Coulter, you're the first to speak tonight on the buzz. The president's performance tonight, redolent of the best of Reagan -- what do you think?
COULTER: It's stunning. It's amazing. I think it's huge. I mean, he's landing on a boat at 150 miles per hour. It's tremendous. It's hard to imagine any Democrat being able to do that. And it doesn't matter if Democrats try to ridicule it. It's stunning, and it speaks for itself."
I'm not sure what Ann was referring to when she used the words, amazing, huge, tremendous, hard, stunning and "speaks for itself"
Perhaps the codpiece?
I feel like lady McBeth. "Out damn spot!" WTF. We are to blame, at least me, I beleived in this liar of a president.I fell for the Mushroom Clouds and all the other deceptions. God, what a disaster! I'm sure the Iraqis will never recover from what we have done.
America needs to admit it -- the Iraq situation is out of control and Bush has no idea how to bring life or order to that country, never has had. There's not a single person "in charge" who has a realistic plan or even a desire for handling Iraq -- it just goes on and on and on with nothing but death and destruction to hope for
Bush et al should be in prison.
More disapprove of Bush than any other president
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/01/bush.poll/index.html
I wonder what the stats are for Cheney? My God, they have to be even lower. And the saddest part? The couldn't care less. They got what they wanted from the American people. They have violated their oaths, made a mess of this country and are now going to walk away scott free.
P.D. @ 32:
Don't beat yourself up. Give yourself credit for seeing things clearly at this point. Sadly a lot of people refuse to see the reality of the situation, even now.
P.D. @ 32:
We better home OUR country recovers from this disaster.
Look at the blood we have on our hands. The blood of children...Iraqi and American. Young men and women on both sides. Dead. Innocents. DEAD.
Our reputation as a nation is destroyed. All our good will with the world is literally gone. For what? The agenda of madmen and the ego of a petulant child masquerading as a man.
A pox on them all.
Well said Liberal, our reputation will never recover, and maybe rightfully so.
well, the good thing--for the admin, the pentagon and the legions of corporate war profiteers--is that the "coalition" forces have stopped trying to keep an accurate tally of civilian deaths. ok, maybe they never tried to keep an accurate account.
P.D. @ 32:
Thanks for being honest.My relatives still think Bush is just fine.Denial kills more drunks than the alcohol does.Nothing changes until it becomes real.Knowing that Bush is a criminal makes things much different.Thank God you overcame your denial.You`re right about one thing;the Iraqis will never recover from what we`ve done.I wonder if we will.
At least the Iraqis are going to get their own theme park just outside the green zone...
Liberal AND Proud @ 27:
Nah, the Beltway during rush hour is a parking lot anyway!
Sam @ 34:
Cheney is somewhere around 20% approval.You have to wonder who these people are that approve of what these scoundrels have done.I hate that they`re going to walk,too
pissed off patricia @ 35:
Better late than never PD...welcome aboard...
P.D. @ 32:
I resent that, but don't ask me to explain why.
We need to hang the 'mission accomplished' meme around McLaimbrain every day, every hour, every minute until the election is over. No free passes for the senator from Az.
He and Bush need to be physically, mentally, visually and verbally connected at the hip 24 hours a day. No mention of McLame should ever go by without attaching the words George W Bush.
OT-- this is a bit OT, but that aircraft carrier (mentioned in yesterday's open thread) is steaming into more than just the Persian Gulf, it seems.
CBS News: US Prepares Iran Attack:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxJ7UDEYb7g
P.D. @ 32:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2R9eYL7kUyg
It must be tempting to strap on a suicide vest when you live in the nightmare that is Iraq, especially when there is the promise of paradise on the other side. The effects of five years of endless war, death and destruction will do that to a populace. I am sure they feel that where they are going after death cannot be any worse than where they are now.
Those female bombers were probably doing a mercy killing on their children and fellow Iraqis. Performing their civic duty, as it were. I would probably feel the same way.
About a month after President George W. Bush stood on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln before a banner proclaiming, "Mission Accomplished," Fox News' Neil Cavuto asserted to Senator John McCain that, "many argue the conflict isn't over" in Iraq. McCain responded, "Well, then why was there a banner that said mission accomplished on the aircraft carrier?"
For a detailed history of John McCain's predictions of a short war and claims U.S. troops would be greeted as liberators to his casual attitude towards casualties and his ongoing confusion over friend and foe in Iraq, see:
"John McCain on the Mission Accomplished in Iraq."
We won teh war. Thems just growin pains.
When bush said" mission accomplished" he was talking about a whole different mission than what americans thought. bushs mission of taking control of the oil fields was accomplished, his mission of installing a puppet iraq government was accomplished, his mission of getting big money contracts to his fellow criminals was accomplished. In fact Iam willing to bet that just about every mission that he has set out to do has been accomplished,right down to the attack on our rights as citizens. This is the reason he says that it will take time before people will see him for the great and wonderful leader that he was. (was-that has a nice ring to it) Make no mistake this is a man...human...person... this ia a president who believes he is better than everyone else and that only "they" are fit to rule us, for our own good you understand. ceo
CEO,citizens,eyes,open @ 51:
Very interesting I find that interesting. True but interesting. heh
CEO,citizens,eyes,open @ 51:
Well, no, the confiscation of Iraqi oil field profits hasn't been accomplished yet, and the western Big Oil companies are still slavering, waiting, waiting, waiting. The Iraqi government still hasn't passed the laws necessary to initiate those PSA contracts. I think THIS is the primary reason why Bush won't withdraw the troops -- he's buying time for his buddies.
His "mission accomplished" statement was just a braggart's claim of a victory that hadn't occurred.
4,059 U S Soldiers dead, 30,000 wounded
1,000,000 + Iraqis dead, 2,000,000 wounded, 4,000,000 displaced
$$ Trillions Wasted - Billions Looted
USA on the verge of bankruptcy, deep in debt
Oil & Gasoline prices skyrocketing
"Mission Accomplished" - We've been lied to, abused & used, with absolutely no consequences for the criminals.
Tweety isn't called out enough for his Bush worshipping during the "Mission Accomplished" days. Now he's re-invented himself as one of the "lone voices" that was always against the war from day one. Give me a break.
MountainMan23 @ 9:
Oh yes, but don't you realize the whole world changed after 9/11? Politics, military nescessity, physics, the laws of gravity, nature, etc.
I mean, attacking a nation for no reason and with no plan before 9/11 was stupid, but after 9/11 it's a brilliant move right? After the neocons being proven wrong about just about everything in Iraq on a daily basis, isn't about time those who hate America realize that they made the right decision?
I have to go now and separate my cat and dog. Ever since 9/11 they've gotten along really well.
Well... If the idea was to wreck the nation.. Well um yea, pretty much, MISSION FUCKING ACCOMPLISHED ASSHOLE! Hope you're happy now preznit Chimpy McDickhead! May your life after fucking this nation up be 'interesting' as the saying goes. You and your administration have already provided this nation and the rest of the world with enough 'interesting times' to last a good long while...grrr..bastard!!! JD
Mission Accomplished day indeed. I was looking at my calendar today and I found this May 1st is a very busy day. Today is Loyalty Day. It is a day for the reaffirmation of loyalty to the United States and for the recognition of the heritage of American freedom. Dubya and the Rethuglicans are loyal only to themselves and have destroyed American freedom. May 1st is also Law Day. Created in the late 50's by the American Bar Association to draw attention to both the principles and practice of law and justice. President Eisenhower established Law Day by proclamation in 1958. Dubya & Co. have a total disregard for law and justice. So much so that the fabric of what it is to be an American has been shredded.
Perhaps we should consider making May 1st Reflection Day. A time to reflect on the past and consider what is needed to reshape America into the sort of place our own revolution strived to create.
Mike Malloy did a killer program last night where he read off quotes by the media pundits, including some normally thought of as liberal, blathering on about the "success" of the Iraq invasion following the "Mission Accomplished" speech. And no apologies from any of them after time has proven them wrong.
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