At Least 51 Are Killed in Blast at Baghdad Market (and McCain is trying to play Bush's terror card?)

[ProSense]

At Least 51 Are Killed in Blast at Baghdad Market

By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr. and ALI HAMID
Published: June 18, 2008

BAGHDAD — Explosives stowed in a minibus obliterated a bustling marketplace and set ablaze a crowded apartment building in the heavily Shiite Huriya district of northwest Baghdad, killing at least 51 people and wounding 75 late Tuesday afternoon, Iraqi security officials said.

There were immediate and angry calls for revenge from Shiites, a display of sectarian tensions that had been ebbing as the overall violence dropped in Iraq. The blast occurred in the heart of a neighborhood where Sunnis had been brutally driven out — and some of the current residents blamed the displaced Sunnis for the attack.

In their rage, others faulted the new pro-American neighborhood patrols, brought in from outside the area, for not preventing the attack. It was the deadliest bombing in Baghdad in more than three months.

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What he meant was that perhaps the time had come for the Mahdi Army, the militia of the anti-American Shiite cleric, Moktada al-Sadr, to re-emerge from its self-imposed retreat and begin more active patrols and protection of fellow Shiites.

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The MSM started the day criticizing Move On's ad targeting McCain.

McCain tried out Bush's stale terror argument .

Obama Camp Hits Back on Terrorism

Leave it to the idiot pundits on Dan Abrams to try to spin this as a good day for McCain.

The Obama campaign's response got a lot of good press, despite the talking heads.

[L0oniX]

1. So your saying that the surge is still working then. NOT !

:sarcasm:
Who really believes that the surge is working? We are still losing about 1 US soldier per day on average in Iraq.

[11 Bravo]

2. Damn, I'm glad we're finally on the same side!

You are relentless, and now that we share a candidate, I love it.

[ProSense]

3. McCain is in trouble

:)

[mnhtnbb]

4. But, but...things are going so great in Baghdad. My paper told me so

just this morning!

:sarcasm:


BAGHDAD - Signs are emerging that Iraq has reached a turning point. Violence is down, armed extremists are in disarray, government confidence is rising and sectarian communities are gearing up for a battle at the polls rather than slaughter in the streets.

http://www.newsobserver.com/print/tuesday/front/story/1110747.html