Someone Tell McSurge - Bloodiest Attack In Baghdad This Yr - 48 Dead/249 Wounded

[kpete]

Female bombers struck Kurdish political protesters in Kirkuk and Shiite pilgrims in Baghdad on Monday morning, leaving at least 48 people dead and 249 wounded in one of the bloodiest sequences of attacks in Iraq this year.... In the attacks in Baghdad, three women used suicide vests and a bomb in a bag to make strikes just minutes apart, killing 24 people, all apparently Shiite pilgrims marching in a festival, according to an official at the Interior Ministry.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/29/world/middleeast/29iraq.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

[jody]

1. Obama says "We're going to have to have a very capable counterterrorism strike force". Does that

include helping Iraq in such cases as the one you cite?

See: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN26392694

[redqueen]

6. What are you talking about?

[jody]

8. What are you talking about? n/t

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[StClone]

2. Scourge of the Surge

If irony is dead what is calling a short less dangerous period in an illegal war and occupation after eight years and billions of dollars "success of the surge."

[TwilightGardener]

3. There is nothing our military can do about this. This is the problem with

Iraq--we are not going to wipe out centuries of tribal hatreds with checkpoints and bribes.

[RethugAssKicker]

10. This was not happening before our occupation !

Sunnis and Shiites were inter-marrying.

[TwilightGardener]

11. But we lifted the lid off the pot--that was Saddam Hussein. Now all the old hatreds

have boiled over.

[redqueen]

4. He'll only forget again a minute or so later. (nt)

[Contrary1]

5. Update on casualty numbers:

At least 57 dead, close to 300 injured.

[lonestarnot]

7. Surge worked so well for them, what happened?