The bloodbath continues

[smoogatz]

Baghdad truck bomb kills 121 - police
Sat Feb 3, 2007 12:06pm ET


By Mussab Al-Khairalla

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A huge truck bomb killed 121 people and wounded 226 in a busy market in a mainly Shi'ite area of central Baghdad on Saturday, in the deadliest single bombing in the capital since the 2003 U.S.-led war.

The blast in Sadriya shattered food stalls and smashed the facades of shops, setting some on fire. Three car bombs ripped through the same market in December, killing 51.

"It was a terrible scene. Many shops and houses were destroyed," said one resident, Jassem, 42, who had rushed from his home nearby to help pull people from the rubble after hearing the ear-splitting explosion.

The casualties swamped the capital's hospitals. There were chaotic scenes at Ibn al-Nafis hospital in central Karrada, where hallways overflowed with wounded on trolleys and relatives and friends screaming for help.

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So, Iraq's population is less than 1/10th of the U.S.'s. Imagine if a truck bomb went off in NYC and killed the equivalent number of people, by population--1200 or so. Now imagine that pretty much every single day, between 300 and 400 Americans were killed an acts of political/religious/ethnic violence--including bombings, shootings, beheadings, and various other gruesome acts of torture and mayhem. Imagine the government was unable or unwilling to stop the carnage. Imagine there were 1.5 million foreign troops in the country, sent there to throw out the previous government and steal our natural resources, and that every family you knew--including your own--had a member who had been killed or imprisoned or threatened or humiliated by the foreign occupiers. Imagine you were unemployed and broke and all the government-funded jobs were either going to fat-cat foreign contractors or slave laborers from third world countries. What would your politics be? Whose side would you be on? What would you do?

[orpupilofnature57]

1. Impeachment if nothing more than to express the difference between..

...Shrub and us ,the atrocities We have put on the world the last 6yrs,will cost US for decades.

[asjr]

2. And that debt can never be paid off. Every

day chaos is happening. Every day someone dies. How much longer can this administration ignore the mess it has caused.

[aquart]

4. Yup. Otherwise, we're saying it's okay by us.

[aquart]

3. They're getting better and better at it, aren't they?

[originalpckelly]

5. 121, I think that's the largest toll I've ever seen...

:cry:

[aquart]

6. All on us.

We robbed these people of maybe ten years of their lives. I know this civil war was waiting to happen. Everyone with a knowledge of human nature knew it, but we could have waited till a man in his 60s died. His sons couldn't have held power for a minute.

If we'd waited, we could have entered as peacekeepers, as honest brokers, as fair businessmen helping to rebuild. But we trashed it all, and ourselves.