BAGHDAD, April 2, 2007
Baby, GI Among Iraq Truck Bomb Victims
Kirkuk Suicide Attack Kills At Least 15 Near School, U.S. Troops Seen At Site
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A medic helps a wounded man in Kirkuk, Iraq, 180 miles north of Baghdad, April 2, 2007. (AP Photo/Emad Matti)
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Girls in school uniforms lie at a hospital bed in Kirkuk, Iraq, on April 2, 2007. (AP Photo/Emad Matti)
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Several girls walking home from school were among those wounded in the bombing, a possible prelude to far greater violence to this oil-rich city 180 miles north of the capital. The attack came just days after the government adopted a plan to relocate thousands of Arabs who were moved to Kirkuk decades ago in Saddam Hussein's campaign to displace the Kurds.
Doctors worked in a scene of bloody pandemonium as wounded were brought to the emergency room. There was barely room to move. Many of those being treated appeared to be either very young children or schoolgirls, many crying with blood spattered on their clothes. Several badly mutilated dead bodies filled the back of a police pickup truck as a U.S. helicopter flew overhead.
Sarah Samad, 13, said she had just finished taking an exam and was near the school gate at the time of the explosion.
"The gate fell on my leg and broke it," she said from her hospital bed.
Bombings elsewhere in Iraq killed at least 12 people and wounded more than 40, and police found the bodies of at least 35 victims of sectarian killings. The 21 bodies discovered in Baqouba, about 50 miles north of the capital, were believed to have been Shiite workers grabbed from three minibuses stopped at illegal Sunni insurgent checkpoints near the violent city. Baghdad police said they found 14 corpses, most tortured and killed execution style; all were thought to be victims of Shiite death squads.
The government plan to move Arabs — both Shiite and Sunni Muslims — out of Kirkuk was a victory for the Kurds, who have 58 seats in the 275-member Iraqi parliament and are closely aligned with the ruling Shiites. Thousands of Kurds have returned to Kirkuk after being forced out by Saddam, who accused them of siding with Iran in the eight-year Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s.
But many Arab politicians have rejected the plan, saying it would facilitate attempts by non-Arab Kurds to absorb the city and its surrounding oil riches into the ethnic group's semiautonomous region in the northeast of Iraq. The strongest opposition has come from Sunnis, who are dominant in regions that lack oil reserves and fear the Kurds won't share oil revenues.
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SCHOOLS, HOMELESS AND QUIT GIVEING MONEY TO Foreign GOVERNMENTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST LIKE ISRAEL OR KUWAIT OR ANYWHERE UNTIL OUR KIDS DONT HAVE TO DO BAKE SALES AND CAR WASHES FOR BAND UNIFORMS AND EDUCATION COST!
We cannot trust our own government to tell us the truth and look out for our own National Well Being! But you well know that we cannot! Our government has diverted funds from Afghanistan and the hunt for bin laden to Iraq that did not attack us on 911 and are funding Sunni Al Qaeda in Lebanon to counter Shiite Hammas against Israel. While cutting programs that support the troops in the United States and Veterans affairs realms. American School Kids are having bake sales to get band uniforms while America sends millions of dollars to Israel and Arab states that are fighting each other. America is the Land of the Free Home of the Brave but our Politicians are bought by outside Governments and are performing Treasonous acts against US!
If you follow the money trail you will find that most of those elected officials who support the war in Iraq are under the influence of AIPAC. See them bragging of their control to our elected officials and their policy below!
http://www.aipac.org/forms/join_aipacClubs.htm
If you think Americas sacrifice is worth it contact your ELECTED OFFICIAL and tell them http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/
Your posts are the spam of the CBS news site.
I Assume you are implying that this PHOTO is not what it seems to be? I guess one should draw his or her own conclusions.
I Assume you are implying that this PHOTO is not what it seems to be? I guess one should draw his or her own conclusions.
Posted by crater7 at 10:14 AM : Apr 02, 2007
Crater7:
an7a7gram /%u02C8fn%u0259%u02CCgrfm/ [an-uh-gram]
verb, -grammed, -gram7ming.
%u2013noun
1. a word, phrase, or sentence formed from another by rearranging its letters
Rearrange the letters in THIS to get the aforementioned anagram. Hint: it starts with S, has a second letter of H, and ends with T.
Posted by crater7 at 09:54 AM : Apr 02, 2007
Typical blame America first rhetoric. Why aren't you condemning the ANIMALS who planned and executed the attack?
what the muslim ambassador confesses to Thomas Jefferson and John Adams.......
The ambassador answered us that [the right] was founded on the Laws of the Prophet (Mohammed), that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have answered their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as prisoners, and that every Mussulman who should be slain in battle was sure to go to heaven.[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Barbary_War
http://www.usvetdsp.com/jan07/jeff_quran.htm
http://www.khouse.org/articles/2007/691/
http://www.earlyamerica.com/review/2002_winter_spring/terrorism.htm
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=+Thomas Jefferson barbary
http://http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q= Thomas Jefferson islam
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q= Thomas Jefferson muslim
Posted by bluestardad
Outward view, non binding resolutions, resolutions without enough votes to override a veto, resolutions that may or may not have the legal authority to be implemented because of conditions placed. Whenever a member of congress is voting knowing all of this in advance in favor of withdrawal of troops what are they actually doing. Pandering and grandstanding and with the proposed deadlines being right before the presidential election.
Posted by crater7 at 09:54 AM : Apr 02, 2007
Typical blame America first rhetoric. Why aren't you condemning the ANIMALS who planned and executed the attack?
Posted by mbcsmith at 10:34 AM : Apr 02, 2007
Because Bush is the animal that brought this about. HE is the one that picked open this sore and infected it by invading Iraq. HE is the one that unleashed the militias to do what murderous deeds they are doing through his own stupidity of the make up and history of the region. HE is the one with this blood on his hands. No one is blaming America, first or last, we're blaming the real Iraqi butcher of Baghdad, George W. Bush!
NOPE........ SADDAM IS THE ANIMAL THAT DID....
the war is legal
the resumption of hostilities was only a matter of time since iraq broke the ceasefire agreement.....
blame saddam for iraq%u2026%u2026. Even clintoon and the dems wanted the resumption of hostilities back in 1998
"Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process." - Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D, CA), Dec. 16, 1998
"One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line." - President Clinton, Feb. 4, 1998
"If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program." - President Bill Clinton, Feb. 17, 1998
Troll.
Thanks for the definition of Anagram. i guess by one looking at a photo and inserting his or her own conclusion or definition, wheather correct or not, one has inserted a ANAGRA-WHAT.
Therefore my anagram is that BUSH is the one who one might say, by inserting an ANAGRA-GRAM, is the one who planned and executed the attack, causing injury to these chrildren in the photo/ anagram. Thanks for you help.
There is no reason for me to reply to your question, instead I Will refer you the the post by RandalDS; 3:10 pm 4-2-07. This post says it all.
!Viva Bush!
Posted by badaxmofo at 03:40 PM : Apr 02, 2007
ROTFLMFAO!!!!
Lars wouldn't know a fact if it bit him in the as*s!!! LOL! LOL! LOL!
Though he may enjoy the sensation of the biting! LOL!
and these fascist nazi islamic muslim collaborators
oh you're not really going to tell me that our invasion of Iraq had anything to with caring for the Iraqi people are you? Surely you're not stupid enough to believe that had any part of Bush's motivation! LOL! Bush didn't then and does not now give a rat's as*s about the Iraqi people. This war never had anything to do with freeing them or WMD's or terrorism! it was what it is, a war for profit! Bush's buddies in the war industries and big oil are making hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars off from this war crime of his and that was the ONLY reason he launch this war of choice. The idea that he launched it because he wanted to stop Saddam murdering people would be laughable if it weren't so sick! READ some history! Reagan sold Saddam the gas he used to slaughter his own people and the Iranians (while selling the Iranians weapons at the same time) with! the American right wing has never given a da*mn about any human life (esp our own troops) beyond how they can use them to turn a profit.
Posted by notblue at 05:48 PM : Apr 02, 2007
Blaming Bush for his part in this debacle and all of the rest of his obvious fu*ck ups is not the same thing as sympathy for the Jihadists. That "for us or you're with the enemy" is a load of propaganda sh*it. It's the kind of *** the neocons try to hide their crimes behind. They wrap themselves in the flag and filthy it up at the same time. Pointing out that they suck as leaders means we're even more patriotic Americans then those who blindly follow the leader...right off the cliff. Of course someone with their head up their (or more likely Bush's) as*s would be able to see that.
Posted by notblue at 05:59 PM : Apr 02, 2007
Who care?!? WHO CARES! By that statement alone you show yourself to be an ignorant as*s! Do think sh*it like this happens in a vacuum? Do you think there's no connection between us selling him the gas that could only be used for one thing and him using it? We sold a know murder weapons that can only be used to murder more people and you think we have no culpability? Wat a stupid fu*cking ignorant thing to say. What a completely moronic statement. Incredibile! Yu haven't just drank the kool aid you're swimming in it. At Jones-town you'd be one of the cult members forcing the kool aid down the throats of the children. You're just plain sick.
Recently they have been putting children in there suicide car bombs to get....
You know the reason why are they doing this. Who made them suicide bombers? Pl. tell everyone on this Board. Thank you.
Fact is, the primary items Iraq got from the US was authorized for medical research only. NOTHING ever was disclosed that demonstrated any intent by the USA or any of its allies to provide Iraq with Chemical or Biological weapons.
Guaranteed. Everything else is idiots fodder.
Posted by diplomacy3 at 06:55 PM : Apr 02, 2007
They do it for 70 virgins when they go to heaven.
Tell the truth. You don't have one around you.
Correction:
Pl. tell the truth. You don't have one around.
We're turning another corner, we're making progress.
Ignore these liberal, Bush hating media stories.
*SQUAWK* The surge is working, stay the course. . . *SQUAWK*
Posted by pwrslm at 06:59 PM : Apr 02, 2007
A) March, 1986. The United States with Great Britain block all Security Council resolutions condemning Iraq's use of chemical weapons, and on March 21 the US becomes the only country refusing to sign a Security Council statement condemning Iraq's use of these weapons. B) The US Department of Commerce licenses 70 biological exports to Iraq between May of 1985 and 1989, including at least 21 batches of lethal strains of anthrax. C) April 1988. US Department of Commerce approves shipment of weapons grade botulin poison to Iraq. D) April, 1988. US Department of Commerce approves shipment of chemicals used in manufacture of mustard gas.
Source: The Reigle Report: Dual Use Exports. Senate Committee on Banking. May 25th, 1994.
Look it up....if you need to maybe you can someone to explain it to you. I also have dozens of other authoritative sources including statements from many upper level figures in the Regan administration, such as McFarlane and even Rumsfeld.
Bullsh*it all you want, but all of the credible evidence is overwhelming. The Reagan and Bush administrations repeatedly approved of or helped ship tons and tons of biological and chemical weapons materials to Saddam Hussein.
Baby, GI Among Iraq Truck Bomb Victims
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Okay, lie some more.
http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/pdf/research/mep/Iran0806.pdf
http://www.weeklystandard.com/
Content/Public/Articles/000/000/003/527u
wabl.asp?pg=2" Posted by badaxmofo
LOL! the weeklystandard is a neoconservative publicantion. What would you expect them to say? LOL!
If the coffins of all our troops were lined up end to end, they would stretch down the highway for 4 long miles. Think about it next time you drive to work. Watch the clock as you are going 60 miles per hour, rushing past all those coffins, and think about all the fatherless kids, the grieving families surrounding each one. And tens of thousands more suffer permanently maimed, brain damaged, psychologically wounded.
Now think about the dead Iraqis - the end to end bodies (no coffins for most), would go on and on for a couple HUNDRED MILES. That is the legacy of our fascist WAR PRESIDENT - a murderous thug.
JAIL CHENEY and JAIL BUSH for Mass Manslaughter
Your ignorance is truly amazing! We sold Saddam all kinds of weapons, including chem-weapons in the 1980s when we he was out friendly brutal dicatator. Oh how the US loves brutal dicators when they are friendly to our (corporate) interests.
What you don't understand is that the 1/2 life of the chem-weapons in Saddams arsenol was only a few years. It does not last. Read Scott Ritter's books and get informed. You are such a chump, an utter fool. Just the kind of mindless, fake patriot, that the NeoCons count on as an easy target to get an emotional vote. Nazis loved your type in Germany too, make no mistake about it. Wave the flag, scare people into giving up their freedom and their questioning.
If you love you country, do your patriotic duty and GET INFORMED. Then you will want to throw Bush and Cheney in JAIL. just like what the rest of my Republican family would like to do with these NeoCon SOBs.
Wrong again. Perhaps you weren't around in the '80s when Reagan sold Saddam helicopters, which Saddam used to gas Kurds and Iranians. Then Reagan sold arms to Iran (remember Iran/Contra?) to kill Iraqis. Remember the photo of Rumsfled and Saddam shaking hands? They were buds!! Rumsfled knew in 1984 that Saddam had WMD back then but kept it secret until the first Gulf War. By then the WMD were depleted, else he would certainly have used them against the U.S. invasion then.
It's all public knowledge and can be found on the internet and elsewhere.
Posted by didntinhale at 09:22 PM : Apr 02, 2007
didntinhale: you gotta make political hay out of everything? Figures.
This is a tragedy, from the baby to the GI. Incident after incident, and alas no end in sight.
Kill, loot, rape, and pillage seems to be all that they know. The Bush Butchers must be brought to account sooner than later. Who knows how many they have tortured, maimed, and slaughtered by now?
End the disgraceful U.S. debacle in Iraq.
www.ipetitions.com/petition/OutNow
Posted by badaxmofo at 09:05 PM : Apr 02, 2007
The operative word is had. Most were destroyed after the first Gulf war as witnessed by UN weapons inspectors. Any that may have been hidden expired years before Bush invaded Iraq this time. Most gas and chemical weapons degenerate very quickly and none could have lasted the years between wars.
So the President starts his "surge" and the violence in Iraq increases by 15%. How many failed Bu$h plans must the American people endure before we all come to the realization that he doesn't have a clue and never did?
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