Several Large Explosions Heard in Baghdad

[NNN0LHI]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040617/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_blasts&cid=540&ncid=1480

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Several large explosions rocked Baghdad on Thursday.

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[Lautremont]

1. In other news, sky blue.

[MikeG]

2. I, for one, appreciate your postings, Mr. NNN0LHI.

[BrotherBuzz]

3. Don does seem to keep it all straight!

[Lautremont]

4. Oh, I appreciate the post.

Meant to be scornful to certain warmongering monkeymen. A little abstract; sorry.

[alittlelark]

6. abstract, schmactract...........

more dead.

[BrotherBuzz]

8. No problem

and I really do appreciate Don (NNN0LHI) for his tireless work posting latest breaking news threads. He's been doing it a long time! and I've come to depend on his posts to keep me hip as to what's happening in the world. NNNOLHI posts = Good Houskeeping Seal of Approval!

[Lautremont]

11. Good to know.

I'm newish around here, as you can tell.

[BrotherBuzz]

12. Well, Welcome to DU!

Hang around a bit and we'll all learn something.

[Lautremont]

13. Thanks,

This is my third welcome, but I'm not complaining! Friendliness + politics I can connect with + intelligence...

Well, it's hard to beat.

I'll stop posting off-topic on this thread now.

[lostnfound]

16. Welcome to DU. I for one understood your first post..

Sky is blue is like "SNAFU" isn't it?
The new normal in Bush's America.

[Lautremont]

19. Exactly,

thanks.

[Jacobin]

5. Apropos of the continuing insurrection

"The Bush administration's last remaining justification for the invasion of Iraq has been demolished by a private poll revealing that only 2 per cent of Iraqis regard the occupying forces as liberators.

The poll results are devastating for both President George Bush and Tony Blair, who are fond of saying that future generations of Iraqis will thank them for liberating their country. Tony Blair has consistently said that history will prove him right for engineering the downfall of a cruel tyrant, even if weapons of mass destruction were not found.

President Bush, giving a pep-talk to American soldiers in Florida yesterday, said: "We have come not to conquer, but to liberate people and we will stand with them until their freedom is secure."

Yet the main findings of the poll, which was commissioned by the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) last month and which was leaked yesterday, reveal that only 2 per cent of the Iraqis polled in mid-May see coalition troops as liberators, while 92 per cent said they were occupiers. In a crumb of comfort for the coalition, only
3 per cent expressed support for Saddam Hussein."

The above for any lurking freepers who are shaking their heads wondering what happened to the flowers and dancing in the streat.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=532337

[lostnfound]

17. Worse: 54 % believed all Americans behaved like guards at Abu Grhaib.

That is so depressing. Not surprising, but depressing. Way to win those hearts and minds, YEAH!

[Beetwasher]

24. So One Could Extrapolate From Those Numbers

that since 3% support SH and only 2% see the US as liberators, that SH has more support than the US in Iraq. Go figure.

[eridani]

7. Latest breaking news?

Coulda sworn that one was a couple of months old.

[LittleApple81]

9. Have you noticed that when explosions are inside the Green Zone nothing

else is reported? Somebody was suggesting that the Green Zone is really empty.

[DemoTex]

10. Don, I know you ...

You are digging up old Saigon stories, changing the words, and passing them off as Iraq war stories. Too funny, my friend. You are a great jokester. The Bu$hter is a jokester too. I don't laugh over his big joke.

Mac

[saigon68]

18. "BRING EM ON" shouted the AWOL CHIMPANZEE

Another old standard posted every day.

And Mac ----you are right about the old Saigon stories. Hardly a day passed back then without a couple of guys on a motorcycle taking a shot at someone or a grenade thrown.

[JohnyCanuck]

25. You mean this Chimp?

[saigon68]

27. That's the ONE---that CHIMPANZEE

LOL

[mmonk]

14. What about the schools being repaired, re-opened,

and such? Aren't things hunky dory?

[jburton]

15. More "Mission Accomplish-ing", no doubt...

:eyes:

[Davis_X_Machina]

20. This comes up often enough to become its own folder... n/t

[yellowcanine]

21. Probably just a "wedding celebration" that got out of hand. Don't the

Eyerackies hold their weddings on Thursdays?

[dArKeR]

22. Notice the CBS pic. These soldiers are wearing street pants and t-shirts

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/02/24/iraq/main541815.shtml

[saigon68]

23. That's a Mercenary

[Just Me]

26. I just wanna punch people who say Iraq is better off!!!

But, as an advocate for non-violent reconciliation,...I can only tell them they are failing to acknowledge the facts (and then, go to the basement to hit & kick my punching bag).

:eyes: