Breaking - bombings in Iraq - at least 58 dead

[malaise]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm who's watching the Dick?

breaking on GEM$NBC

[ShortnFiery]

1. Damn! Weren't we told that "the surge" solved everything?!?

:eyes:

[Mari333]

2. we knew it would happen years ago when we occupied them for their oil

and murdered their people

and the war criminals sit in luxury with speaking engagements, selling books.

we knew, we said it, no one listened.

[Karmadillo]

3. We won. Don't they know that? Why is this still happening?

nt

[madokie]

4. My first thought

whose watching the dick and rummy too


after all they both have a lot of reasons to be worried about what is happening there as it is their offspring, their baby. :hi:

[malaise]

5. The withdrawal process is going too well

and was in the news earlier this week. Kaboom - explosions again!

[kenny blankenship]

6. Meanwhile the ruling coalition (Maliki) has ordered a surprise "recount" of Baghdad's votes

and the challenger (Allawi, who took the majority of votes in the Baghdad region) is already accusing the govt of stealing ballots there.

[tekisui]

7. Extended political vacuum+Violence/Insecurity= Bad bad bad.

If this blows up into reciprocating sectarian violence or civil war, I can see the Pentagon/Obama using it to delay the withdrawal.

[kenny blankenship]

8. yeah but look on the bright side:

The worst has probably already happened over there. One in every twenty five Iraqis is dead, and another is displaced. Iraq's urban areas have been ethnically cleansed (Basra) or partitioned and partly ethnically cleansed (Baghdad). That's what our counter insurgency geniuses call a civil war "burning itself out". There's not much more to destroy. So whatever happens as factions fight over the tattered remains of Iraq, it probably won't look as bad as before to a media that is mostly not watching anymore. And so with the help of the media and government, Americans will conclude huh, I guess it's going OK now