Three suicide car bombs and two mortar rounds struck the capital's Shiite Sadr City slum Thursday, killing at least 150 people and wounding 238, police said. The attack by suspected Sunni Arab militants was the deadliest in the sectarian bloodshed that has engulfed Iraq ince last winter. Shiites responded almost immediately, firing 10 mortar rounds at the Sunnis' holiest shrine in Baghdad, the Abu Hanifa mosque in the Azamiya neighborhood, killing one person and wounding 14...read on
On Hannity & Colmes, Lieberman said this:
Lieberman: As bad a things are in Iraq today, they would be dramatically worse if we just pick up and leave.
Lets ask the 150 people that were killed today, oh--wait--we can't. Hannity tries to call Lieberman an Independent because he's an uber-war-hawk. No Sean, that just makes him a Conservative leading the charge in Iraq.
Jane Hamsher completes the thinking here.
Then, of course, there is St. John McCain and his "more measured " approach of sending 20,000 more troops to Iraq and expanding the military by as much as 100,000 people....read on