Another Violent Day Kills at Least 50 in Baghdad - uh, civil war???

[spanone]

So when do we call this a civil war (that we started) and get the fuck out????


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BAGHDAD, July 11 — At least 50 people were killed in Baghdad today in a stunning array of violence that included a double suicide attack near busy entrances to the fortified Green Zone, beheadings, shootings, a series of car bombs, mortar attacks and the ambush of a bus carrying Shiite mourners returning from a burial.

The day’s killings, many of them clearly carried out as sectarian vengeance, raised the three-day death toll in the capital alone to well over 100, and deepened the sense among residents that the violence was not going to ebb anytime soon — and that Iraqi and American security forces were powerless to stop it.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/11/world/middleeast/11cnd-iraq.html?ei=5094&en=1da96d5832d78d70&hp=&ex=1152676800&partner=homepage&pagewanted=print

[xultar]

1. Aww damnit to fuckin betsy...it ain't a civil war until

the lil bugle, drummer and flute boys with the tri-cornered hats come martchin down main st.

[Hubert Flottz]

2. "Things will get better there now that we killed their #1 terra-ist!"

"The new government will put a stop to all the killing!"

"War is good for GOP politics!"

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. They're just celebratring democracy and Bush's great invasion.

[Hubert Flottz]

4. The fireworks thingy that don't ever stop!

Free Fireworks every day! Ain't neocon "DEMOCRACY" grand!

[TheCowsCameHome]

7. It's the 4th of July every day. They are such partying fools....

[Cocoa]

5. I wonder if the U.S. armed/is arming the militias?

we know they were talking seriously about it.

Geraldo Rivera once said we should arm Sadr's militia to fight the Sunni insurgents.

Maybe I should rephrase the question, is there any possibility we are not arming the militias?

[spanone]

10. Absolutely NOTHING these criminals do would surpise me.

We are probably arming all sides in this conflict. We're not leaving till we get every drop of oil.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

6. "Things are going very, very, well in Iraq" General Peter Patch

Chairman of the Joints Chief of Staff.

[TheCowsCameHome]

9. Very,very well if you're an insurgent . Peter Piper doesn't know squat.

[spanone]

11. Pace is a tool.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

8. Where are those freepers who say that Baghdad is safer than D.C.? This

kind of stuff happens in D.C. all the time, doesn't it? Dozens of people killed per day?

[On the Road]

13. Yeah, Right -- Baghdad is Safer Than DC

The people who say are probably afraid to venture out of the suburbs.

I walk down blown-out ghetto streets in Baltimore at night and don't even think twice about it. The danger exists, but it's overhyped. OOH, I wouldn't go anywhere near Baghdad. That is suicide.

[lindisfarne]

12. 50 a day have been dying for a long time if you believe >50,000 have

died as a result of the war.

http://www.iraqbodycount.org/ has between 38,000 and 43,000, but they only list the deaths which make it into media accounts and for which there is some amount of documentation, so it's an undercount.