Many killed in Iraq bomb attacks (at least 18 dead)

[Eugene]

Source: BBC News

Page last updated at 12:46 GMT,
Sunday, 16 November 2008

Many killed in Iraq bomb attacks

Two separate explosions in Iraq have killed
at least 18 people and wounded many more,
officials say.

Iraqi police say a suicide car bomb exploded
at a police checkpoint in Diyala province,
north of the capital Baghdad, killing at
least 15 people.

Another three people were killed and seven
wounded in a bomb explosion near a checkpoint
in Baghdad.

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Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7731950.stm

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Related: FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Nov 16 - Reuters

[LynnTheDem]

1. Bombs daily. Imagine if one bomb a MONTH went off in the USA.

Yet the republic party insists Iraq is wunnerful, just wunnerful!1!

But then, they're not really people, the Iraqis. Not like us. They don't feel things as we do.






























American exceptionalism; dumbest racists on the planet.

[xchrom]

2. recommend -- the surge is not working. nt

[Warren Stupidity]

3. The mass occupation and pacification of Baghdad has worked.

That along with the de-facto partition of Iraq into three autonomous regions and a federal zone have reduced the level of violence. What this fraud hasn't done is gotten us one step closer toward ending the financially ruinous occupation of Iraq.

[High Plains]

5. Well, except for those pesky daily bombings...

[Warren Stupidity]

6. reduced does not imply eliminated

The level of violence has decreased in Iraq. That appears to not be a disputable fact. I am against this war and occupation, and have been vocally against it from long before it got officially started, but my opposition does not extend to denying the current reality. The current reality is that 'the surge' which was in fact the concentration of our troops in Baghdad with a focus on reducing the levels of violence there, has in fact reduced the level of violence in Baghdad. In addition, the unspoken coefficient of the surge, the political arrangement with el anbar and basra that has created two new semi-autonomous regions along with the kurdish region, has brought about something approaching stability in Iraq. But it has done so with its linchpin being the permanent occupation of Iraq's federal region, Baghdad, by our forces. That is the sick joke underneath the Glorious Surge. As there has been no real political settlement, as there is no real central government, we are just as hopelessly mired in an endless hostile occupation now as we were back in 2007. We just aren't losing 30 soldiers a week and the Iraqis aren't being blown up at quite the same rate as back then.

[Seda]

4. When does it stop?

I wish we'd shed the ego and just admit defeat, last time I knew, defeat when it saves the lives of thousands and offers some peace to the world is not a bad thing. I believe we might even call it humilty, but I still see the those bumper stickers "these colors don't run" or "the color of pride" I just want to retch on how ego centric our country is. Its foolish and cares less about people and more about our status of super power?