More Bloodshed For GIs, Iraqi Civilians
Cafe Bomb Kills Dozens, 3 American Soldiers Killed, More Attacks Against Pilgrims
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Iraq Shiite Pilgrims Murdered
Iraqi pilgrims on a religious journey are being targeted. Another 10 were killed Wednesday, a day after bomb blasts killed more than 100 Shiites. Aleen Sirgany reports.
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Iraq: Shiite Pilgrims Attacked
A total of 100 Shiite pilgrims were slaughtered by suicide bombers on their way to a religious festival in Iraq. Allen Pizzey reports.
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Over 100 Shiite pilgrims were killed while on a religious trek south of Baghdad, one day after the deadliest day for U.S. troops in over a month. Aleen Sirgany reports.
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Soldiers from Bravo Troop, 2nd, Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, Iraqi soldiers and Iraqi National Police officers set out on a joint foot patrol in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, March 7, 2007. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
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An Iraqi Army commando guards Muslim Shiite pilgrims marching towards the shrine city of Karbala, about 65 miles south of Baghdad, on March 6, 2007. (Getty Images/Mohammad Sawaf)
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Soldiers from the 2nd Brigade of the 82nd Airborne Division and Iraqi National policemen patrol the Shiite enclave of Sadr City in Baghdad on March 6, 2007. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
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The deadly assaults occurred as Iraqi security forces struggled to protect more than 1 million Shiite pilgrims streaming toward the holy city of Karbala for annual religious rituals — and facing a string of attacks along the way that have claimed more than 150 lives in two days.
They included 22 people — 12 police commandos and 10 civilians — who died Wednesday in a car bombing at a checkpoint in southern Baghdad set up to protect pilgrims, the U.S. military said. An Iraqi TV cameraman working for a Shiite-owned station was among the civilian dead, his station said.
One American soldier was wounded in the attack on the bombing-clearing team on a major highway just north of the capital, the U.S. military said. The names of the victims were withheld until their families are notified.
American troops have stepped up efforts to clear and secure major highways around the capital as part of the Baghdad security crackdown, which began last month.
But the operation, which will eventually see an additional 17,000 U.S. combat troops in the capital, has so far failed to intimidate Sunni insurgents, who have retaliated with attacks outside the city, including those against Shiite pilgrims.
At least 13 U.S. troops have been killed in Iraq since Sunday, all of them in Sunni areas north and east of Baghdad. Nine Americans died Monday, the deadliest day for the U.S. military here in nearly a month.
The suicide attack took place near sunset at a popular cafe in Balad Ruz, 45 miles northeast of Baghdad, where Sunni extremists have been forcing Shiites to flee through a campaign of assassination and intimidation.
A senior police officer said dozens of people were gathered around the cafe enjoying mild, sunny weather when the attacker struck, killing 30 people and wounding 25. The officer spoke on condition of anonymity, fearing for his personal safety.
Iraqi security forces have been bracing for more trouble this weekend at the climax of Shiite religious rites marking the end of a 40-day mourning period for Imam Hussein, grandson of the Prophet Muhammad. Hussein's death in a 7th-century battle near Karbala cemented the schism between Sunnis and Shiites.
Hundreds of thousands of Shiite pilgrims were streaming by bus, car and foot into Karbala, 50 miles south of Baghdad, many of them marching behind banners affirming their reverence for Imam Hussein.
The targeted violence came a day after two suicide bombers exploded themselves among pilgrims lining up at a checkpoint, killing at least 120 people and wounding about 190, police and hospital officials said.
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See all 64 CommentsI am not sure if anybody knows this but U.S. troops captured six more terrorist in Afganistan and one is a high rank terrorist.
Are we - the stupid ones - missing something?
Posted by nikosk1 at 01:44 PM : Mar 07, 2007"
...Yeah!............. the plan is still going into effect and if you remember what our military commanders said a few weeks ago......"it will be the end of summer before we will know the results of this plan"
........FYI.........it's not even the end of winter yet.....AND the goal is an Iraq that can defend and sustain itself.........NOT that there won't be any bombs going off....... you can not stop that
India, can't stop the train bombs
Pakistan, can't stop the court room bombs
Israel, can't stop the bombers on the buses, cafes, and border crossings.....etc....etc. with England, Spain, Indonesia, and many other countries hit by these inhumane terrorists.
Bush is playing all of us for suckers! He is supporting al Qaeda in Lebanon with funds from Iraq! The recently resigned terrorist Czar ask for a demotion to deputy Secretary of State Because he did not want to be tangled up with another Iran Contra style Funding Fiasco that is going on in Lebanon. While you are at it Can the Democratic Leadership really deliver on getting America out of Iraq as America wanted November 7, 2006? Here is the stream read it yourself!
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/070305fa_fact_hersh
Oh ya, I forgot weapons of mass destruction were the reasons we really went in. Too bad we never found them.
What could be more obvious ?
When they failed to find WMDs, other reasons to stay there were emphasized.
There is no way this war is in our national interest.
Heightened security after 9/11, particularly in the airports, is what has prevented further attacks on American soil, not this wasteful counterproductive war.
I don't know how Bush lives with himself, unless his conscience has been dulled and numbed by his admitted past alcoholism. Booze can have that longterm neurological effect.
http://www.nysun.com/article/26514
These proclamations about "we found this or that in Iraq" are a part of the ongoing campaign of public deception.
Thank God the American people as a whole aren't buying it.
The "true believers" are a little army of self-deluded Dubya shills who would have great trouble staging a "Thousand Man March".
MSNBC, GEORGES SADA | 01.29.06 | Mia T
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Posted by lars008 at 03:28 PM : Mar 07, 2007
In that case, George Bush really is stupid. Why did he order the invasion of Iraq to find WMD's if they had been moved to Syria?
The only thing dumber than a Bush bootlicker is a ... roc.. slu... hmmmm...
Well, now that I think of it, there isn't anything.
What could be more obvious ?
When they failed to find WMDs, other reasons to stay there were emphasized.
There is no way this war is in our national interest.
Posted by Iceman_1960 at 03:05 PM : Mar 07, 2007
George Bush works for ExxonMobil and other price gouging war profiteers.
Each day US forces are in Iraq, ExxonMobil rakes in another billion dollars they could not otherwise justify. Not to mention the billions that other war profiteers are raking in.
The only reason the US invaded Afghanistan or Iraq was for the direct benefit of ExxonMobil, et al.
And, George Bush would have probably been thrown out of office in 2004 if he he not unnecessarily began waging "war" on the entire world.
But, some people do argue that increasing ExxonMobil's profits is in the "national interest." A view I do not share. Nationalizing ExxonMobil would be in our national interest. Invading Afghanistan & Iraq were not.
George Bush & D. Cheney should be impeached.
how is it you can use a computer with such a low level of intelligence????
Posted by lars008 at 03:39 PM : Mar 07, 2007
Fortunately for Bush bootlickers, IBM and other big companies hired really smart people who invented machines even morons could manipulate.
While the operation became easier, it did nothing to cause the content to improve in quality. Hence, the saying, "Garbage In, Garbage Out," or "GIGO" for short.
Which is a term that applies to the content provided by all Bush bootlickers, especially you. You learned to copy & paste GIGO, which is a highly prized skill in the Bush bootlicker community, aka "boneheads." So named after their hero, a former member of the "Skull & Bones" group and Bonehead in Chief.
Now, to answer your specific question:
Even morons such as you can operate computers because really smart people designed them to be operated by morons. Such as you.
Bush is playing all of us for suckers! He is supporting al Qaeda in Lebanon with funds from Iraq! The recently resigned terrorist Czar ask for a demotion to deputy Secretary of State Because he did not want to be tangled up with another Iran Contra style Funding Fiasco that is going on in Lebanon. While you are at it Can the Democratic Leadership really deliver on getting America out of Iraq as America wanted November 7, 2006? Here is the stream read it yourself!
http://www.newyorker.com/fa
ct/content/articles/070305fa_fact_hersh
"how is it you can use a computer with such a low level of intelligence????"
Well, it's obvious that you (with even less intelligence) can use one, so ...
Tell me lars008, why is it that you won't join the armed services and go and fight in Iraq?
Is it because you're too stupid for the Army?
Is it because you're too much of a coward?
No surprises there.
You're a gutless coward who gets a kick out of posting inaccurate and moronic posts because you're unemployed and relatively uneducated.
In short, you're GW Bush.
Nice.
msnbc headline:
"Coins circulating without %u2018In God We Trust%u2019
U.S. Mint admits to the goof with the new George Washington dollar."
How many more years of killing over oil can America stand?
Last November, we made it clear there was to be an end to the disgusting murders of our troops, yet here we are...
Impeachment - are we there yet???
not very opened minded in Mich.
I got a call from an individual by the name of Joe Long, who runs a group called Federation of New Jersey Tax Payers. He called me up on a Sunday morning. He goes, "Walter, we just got New Jersey's 1998 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report. They have $295 billion in liquid investment funds. Isn't that awful?" I said, "Joe, you're just looking at the state report. There's 21 counties, a couple hundred cities and municipalities, autonomous agencies - all separate reports. If you take the composite totals of the liquid investment funds, you're well in excess of $1.2 trillion. If you take the population of New Jersey and divide it into $1.2 trillion, that comes out to a cash allocation of $146,000 per man, woman and child living in the state or family of four (sic) [five], that equals seven hundred and some odd thousand dollars. The obfuscation of the wealth has been excessive.
"This war has far bigger implications than most of you here will ever understand - I would suggest opening your mind to the bigger picture and quit squabbling over your various conspiracy theories -"
You are right - this does have bigger implications than most of us will understand.
Like how we allowed ourselves to be lied to by a drug affected, miscreant who obviously was following his own personal agenda and why we haven't impeached his lying a*s.
Their other prophet Rush Limbaugh is also a convicted druggie.
The right wing faithful were just like the cult followers of David Koresh.
Believe anything they said, do anything they said, no matter the evil intentions. Scary. That's right out of nazi germany.
........FYI.........it's not even the end of winter yet.....AND the goal is an Iraq that can defend and sustain itself.........NOT that there won't be any bombs going off....... you can not stop that
India, can't stop the train bombs
Pakistan, can't stop the court room bombs
Israel, can't stop the bombers on the buses, cafes, and border crossings.....etc....etc. with England, Spain, Indonesia, and many other countries hit by these inhumane terrorists.
Posted by perception5 at 02:20 PM : Mar 07, 2007
Okay Terrorist are bad guys... that's a know and accepted fact. The problem the bad guys aren't in the Nation our kids are dying in, that's a CIVIL WAR. The Bad guys, the Taliban, they are in AFGANISTAN, the OTHER war that Sir Lies-A-Lot told us not to worry about. To bad you fools can't figure it out!!
You think we've helped these countries??? Why do you think there is so much US hatred in the Middle East.
You've bought the US propaganda that seeks to convince us how benevolent we are to other nations. Do your homework, and you will understand what a complete lie it is.
The US has meddled in the affairs of other nations for years. Coups, assinations, arm-twisting, support of brutal dicatatorships, use of "foriegn aide" as bribes... All to serve US corporate interests. In the middleast, just look at the history of Iraq, our support or Saddam. In Iran, a CIA plot toppled a popular moderate and we installed the brutal Shah of Iran, which culminated in their revolution, the rise of the Mullah's and Islamice fundatmentalism. Our blind support for Israel, not matter what they do, fuels the fires.
No, sorry, our nation is not benevolent "helpers" of other nations. We are militaristic exploiters of poor nations. Its the simple fact. It is why we are in Iraq.
Unfortunately, our policies have fueled fundamentalism, hatred and revenge. There were no Al Queda links to Iraq. After Ahbu Gharib, after we invade and occupy Iraq based on LIES, after we prop up dictatorships to secure our oil... what do you expect?
Bush and Cheney are people who thrive on power, fear, anger and revenge. They uses these evils as techniques to scare and lie their way into WAR. War for regional dominance, War for permanenet US bases in the middle east, War to secure and control access to the Oil, War for Profit.
It DOES NOT have to be this way! Why spend $600 BILLION on a needless horrific War. Spend 1/10 that amount on PEACE. We need a world based on love and compassion. The Republicrat WARs just fuel the cycle of hate, fear, revenge.
Posted by mcdazz at 08:12 PM : Mar 07, 2007
Here's some more "LIES" for you. Unfortunately you will come up with an excuse for what kerry said because he is a pu$$y democrat.
"Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime ... He presents a particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to miscalculation ... And now he is miscalculating America's response to his continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction ... So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real..."
- Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Jan. 23. 2003
- Sen. Carl Levin (D, MI), Sept. 19, 2002
Funny how their story changes. Back then the guy was a tyrant and now somehow he isn't. Thank god we have a president with some balls. OH By the way...the war from a strategic standpoint is an overwhelming success.
- Sen. Hillary Clinton (D, NY), Oct 10, 2002
The sad part about this is that she or obama are the two best hopes for the democrats. I mean is that the best they have. The crybabies on this site ***$ing amaze me.
UMM MH4CBS....Why don't yuo leave the ***$ing country if we're so horrible. Move to France or whatever European country you feel is more "enlightened". That will mean there are more tissues for the women in our country.
there's no doubt america will lose.
after all, the south has lost every war they ever started...
iraq will be no different.
war making, redneck, white trash, phony christian, ignorant, uneducated, twisted evangelist creeps...
bush's kind of people.
the south elected bush, the south loves bush, the south supports bush.
i ***** on the south.
i wipe my azz with the confederate flag.
nothing good comes out of the south!
Posted by cbville72
Unfortunately the draft dodgers balls belong to other people. Dipswitch lost them in the ANG. What exactly are your strategic credentials to be judging this fiasco a success?
Posted by cbville72
I think we need to stay here just to drive you crazy. I imagine that just about anything would amaze your stupid f*kin' a$$!!
What's really sad is that France was absolutely right about the invasion and occupation of Iraq being a huge mistake. And they are smart enough not to be paying the Chinese back billions in Treasury Bond interest payments for decades to come to finance this war for Oil and Israel. GW's twins and Cheney's daughter and grandchild won't be paying a dime for this war they aren't serving in if they get their unearned inheritance income tax-free.
Bend over America!!
bush's kind of people.
the south elected bush, the south loves bush, the south supports bush.
i ***** on the south.
i wipe my azz with the confederate flag.
nothing good comes out of the south!
Posted by seven-pesos at 10:28 PM : Mar 07, 2007
Umm Yeah...nice rant. It doesn't make any sense and doesn't add anything productive to the debate except to overtly advertise your lack of intelligence. If that was your aim, then you are on point there Amigo. Oh yeah...that war-making, white trash, ignorant guy....He won the last two elections.
ha,ha,ha.
bush is sending more 'onward christian soldiers' to die in the middle east.
they love that kind of ***** in the south.
all those freaky, creepy, bush loving phony christian pieces of dixie *****...republican snakes...white trash!
i ***** on the south.
i wipe my azz on the confederate flag.
those insurgents gonna bend those christian soldiers over and poke 'em in the azz.
more dead martyrs for those crazy christian dixie creeps.
ha,ha,ha.
nothing good comes out of the south!
nothing good comes out of the south!
Posted by seven-pesos at 11:13 PM : Mar 07, 2007
So where exactly does the South and the Confederate flag have anything to do with this discussion. You are the smae jaka$$ that I smacked around a few days ago. You were saying (incorrectly)that the south elected Bush in the election. Here's the facts essay....Bush carried 30 states in '04. He also carried OHIO and IOWA, and the entire midwest. In other words you could say that Bush wiped his a$$ with your liberal pu$$y Kerry, just like I have just wiped my A$$ with you.
Bring some facts to the table you jacka$$.
Legalized torture, Abu Graib, warrantless wiretaps, lies about WMDs and Iraq's non-existent ties to the 911 attacks that have lead to the deaths and maiming of hundreds of thousands of innocent people American soldiers and Iraqi civilians, an increase of more then 3 trillion dollars in our national debt thanks to GWB and his supporters. Bushco is the most corrupt and vile administration in the entire history of this country or maybe on the entire planet.
Doing more of the same and expecting a different outcome is symptomatic of insanity.
But, the US is finally doing something right, no thanks to George Bush or the GOP.
The meeting with the Iranians and Syrians will do far more to accomplish the goals than will all the military forces the US can afford to lose in Iraq.
Diplomacy was the solution before the US led invasion and will always be the solution. No matter how many people George Bush murders before diplomats can resolve the mess he made.
George Bush is the worst president in US history and currently has the blood of over 3,000 brave US soldiers on his hands. Not to mention the tens (hundreds?) of thousands of innocent Iraqis he murdered.
George Bush should be impeached and prosecuted for conspiracy to commit murder. As should his boss, D. Cheney.
that bush loving creepy south loses another one.
the south elected bush...the south supports bush... the south loves bush.
idiot redneck, white trash south.
there is no idealism in the south.
southerners know nothing of diplomacy, tolerance, negotiation.
redneck bush loving thugs only know force.
that's why the ****** south will lose another war for america.
i ****** on the south.
i wipe my azz with the confederate flag.
John Wayne is another one of the conservative Icons who embody all that is good about America, the America that can do no wrong and is always the "good guy". Hate to break the news, but John
Wayne was an "actor" from HOLLYWOOD who played simple characters in simple movies where everything was literally black and white.
Simple world, simple ideas for the simple minded. Its no wonder Bush holds such appeal for the Limbaugh crowd.
so i pick up the mess when the dawg takes a *****.
ha,ha,ha.
i ***** on the white trash, redneck, bush loving, war making, phony christian, twisted evangelist, ignorant, fat azzed, dieseased ***** south.
don't like it? come see me!
Leader of the Clueless
Czar to the Ignorant
Emperor of the Misinformed
President of Morons otherwise known as the "30%" of the rest of America
Some people compare George with Hitler but that would be an insult to Hitler who was a whole lot smarter but I have to hand it to George, he's up there with Hitler as far as being a convincing liar.
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