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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- Tucker, the same can be said for you, you can go ahead and call me whatever you'd like,. . .
Posted by singinrick at 07:58 PM : Apr 04, 2007
I'd "like" to not "call" you anything at all.
Stating you are an ignorant liar is a statement of fact, it is not "calling" you anything.
And, I have repeatedly posted the evidence from your own hand to support that statement of fact.
As have others.
Never mind what you know in your heart, your imaginary God should teach you the Ten Commandments. Lying (bearing false witness) and invoking the name of God for vain purposes (shall not use God's/Lord's name in vain) are included in that list of prohibitions.
Consult your nearest witch doctor or cult leader for details. - Reply to this comment
- "It is actually a punishable crime by the rules of Islam if you do not convert or submit to Islam over there... The main thing is, Islam does not believe that Jesus is the Son of God. They only believe in Him as a prophet, that's it." Posted by singinrick
The first sentence is outright wrong. Christians and Jews live peacefully in Arab countries including Iran and Lebanon, else why would they stay there?
The second sentence just makes me laugh. Islam recognizes Jesus as a prophet but Judaism doesn't recognize Jesus at all. Don't you see the irony in this?
Posted by dirtydog55 at 01:59 AM : Apr 04, 2007
100% correct! My family doctor is Iranian and Jewish. Most of his family lives in Iran because they love their home country. He travels back and forth regularly and the only hassles he gets in from American Customs coming back, never from the Iranian government. Still I wouldn't get too worked up by rick. He's a religious bigot of the worst kind. - Reply to this comment
- "It is actually a punishable crime by the rules of Islam if you do not convert or submit to Islam over there... The main thing is, Islam does not believe that Jesus is the Son of God. They only believe in Him as a prophet, that's it." Posted by singinrick
The first sentence is outright wrong. Christians and Jews live peacefully in Arab countries including Iran and Lebanon, else why would they stay there?
The second sentence just makes me laugh. Islam recognizes Jesus as a prophet but Judaism doesn't recognize Jesus at all. Don't you see the irony in this? - Reply to this comment
- People who are stuck on conservatism because they believe it%u2019s the more %u201Cmoral%u201D position to partake in, are sadly mistaken no matter which religion they subscribe to.
Do the math - what things are most meaningful to the God of Abraham, or Allah and or even Buddha. If you%u2019re a Christian take this simple test - would Jesus be a conservative? Would Jesus support tax cuts for the wealthy? Would Jesus support the death penalty? Or would he rather support the eternal soul of the individual and it%u2019s potential to repent or even just grow?
Would Jesus support a war based upon a potential threat? Which, as it turns out, was at best a perceived threat and at worst a lie?
Would Jesus support killing innocent children in the name of one%u2019s personal safety? Who are all these god-fearing conservatives kidding? The truth is, conservatives are not only devoid of any real moral fibre, they are also hypocrites as they continually point to their %u201Cgood%u201D and %u201Cgodly%u201D behavior to justify their immoral positions. - Reply to this comment
- Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, gave up His life for us.He did this for all of mankind when He did not even have to. His resurrection however conquered death and gave us a chance to be in Heaven for eternity with Him where there will be no more pain, sorrow, sin, or anything that brings hurt. In Heaven everything will be perfect, unlike down here on sinful earth. Jesus offers us the greatest gift of all by accepting Him as our savior, and that is eternal life.
Posted by singinrick
-Again, big liar SickRick hits again. Jesus did not die on the cross. He just fainted. When he was hooked on the cross it was in the afternoon, after a long march in the city streets. He was exhausted. Once hooked, he fainted because of lack of oxygen coming to his brain. His head was hanging on one side, pinching and obstructing the aerial ducts of his breathing system.
-Jesus has been lifted on the cross for enough time to cause him to faint and make believe he died. He just fainted. Since it was Friday and Shabbat was about to take place, well Jesus was dropped, and covered with the white sheat (shroud) and brought to the tomb, where he was left for dead, which was untrue; death did not occur.
-After a greatly needed rest, Yeshoua (Jesus) recovered consciousness. So where is the miracle?
- Millions of short and medium-term fainted people wake up from the state of unconscieness. Where is the miracle if not the fact of recovering the consesciousness per se...? - Reply to this comment
- Anyone see any combat footage from this WAR on the evening news? Of course not, CBS and the corporate media were Bush cheerleaders for the Invasion, instead of exposing the pre-war LIES. So now they give us a sanitized war.
Americans see nothing, hear nothing, do nothing. America is not at War. Our troops are at War. America is at the Mall. America is watching reality TV. America is overworked, underpaid, while the rich NeoCons are spending their massive tax cuts, driving their Hummers with "support the troops" bumper stickers (while their kids are in private colleges, not in Iraq!).
So consider one concept of what this War is about:
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. Notice the coffins rushing by as you are doing 60 miles per hour, and think about all the fatherless kids, the grieving families - a result of the Cheney/Bush LYING us into needless War.
And thing about the dead Iraqis - their 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 BUSH and CHENEY for Mass Manslaughter. - Reply to this comment
- Posted by karlimhof at 08:57 AM : Apr 03, 2007
Posted by tuckerndfw at 09:27 AM : Apr 03, 2007
Amen and amen. People like rick are at least as dangerous in their rhetoric as Muslim extremists are in theirs. Both incite war and death and both should pray that there really isn't a god (as I believe there's not) because if there is they'll both be roasting in hell forever. - Reply to this comment
- Keep on denouncing these "false prophets" - they're why American foreign policy has taken us to where we are today.
Posted by karlimhof at 08:57 AM : Apr 03, 2007
That is my primary purpose in responding to people like Rick.
My grandfather was a Baptist preacher and he would be embarrassed by some of these so called "Christians" spewing their hateful garbage on the Internet.
I am an atheist, but I am not opposed to any religion. If religion helps a person be a better person, or make it through the difficulties of life, that is a good thing.
But, it is inappropriate to use the bible to try to beat others into submission, or, to demonize others. As is using the bible to elevate one's self over others.
Rick and other bible thumpers like him attempt to do all three.
Rick and other bible thumpers like him are an insult to all decent Christians everywhere.
Much like Bush supporters are an insult to all law abiding, Constitution supporting Americans (patriots). - Reply to this comment
- Nor does it alter the fact that Jesus freaks all claim they want to be martyrs and (allegedly) consider martyrdom their highest calling. Same as Muslims.
Posted by tuckerndfw
Right on you are! Same as neocons too - ready to send off the boys to fulfill their personal agendas; neocons want world domination, Rick wants religious domination....both crocks of sheit!
Keep on denouncing these "false prophets" - they're why American foreign policy has taken us to where we are today. - Reply to this comment
- Wake up America. We are not the bad guys.
Posted by singinrick
Wake up Rick! Wake up! The Bush War has killed, maimed, exiled, millions of people.... but you are in the deep sleep of denial....covering your eyes and ears in politico-christian words - meaningless words, words of convenience.
In life it's what you do that counts - illegally attacking Iraq, causing suffering to millions, will not be kindly looked upon by God, country, or history.
You have strayed - repent! - Reply to this comment
- Rick,
I am very well aware that according to most variations of the Jesus myth, God committed suicide (sort of since he didn't really die or give up anything) so murderers and other criminals would not face eternal punishment for their crimes.
If you want to believe that nonsense, that is entirely up to you. But it is a myth and is nonsense.
And, does nothing to mitigate the fact you are demonstrably a liar and ignorant.
Nor does it alter the fact that Jesus freaks all claim they want to be martyrs and (allegedly) consider martyrdom their highest calling. Same as Muslims.
And, BTW, remember Masada. Jews likewise share that desire and reverence. - Reply to this comment
- Rick,
Once again, you are a liar and ignorant.
The proof is in this statement:
"It is actually a punishable crime by the rules of Islam if you do not convert or submit to Islam over there."
Prior to the invasion of Afghanistan, Christian missionaries had been freely wandering around Afghanistan. They were eventually charged with proselytizing in a much publicized case that was headline news in all major media.
Especially in the Christian community. Two of the criminals (they admitted they were proselytizing after they returned to the US) were Baylor (a Baptist university) students.
You cannot possibly have missed those stories because they formed much of the propaganda demonizing the Taliban.
Given the fact you are a liar and ignorant, anything you claim can be safely ignored. - Reply to this comment
- Pray for Peace.
God Bless.
Posted by VictoriaRum at 06:56 AM : Apr 03, 2007
Since we have to ask (pray) for peace, does that mean "God" (whichever variation) prefers war?
Or, does that mean more people pray for war than for peace?
Praying is good but I wouldn't recommend substituting it for action.
Impeaching Bush & Cheney would more effectively result in peace than praying. - Reply to this comment
- Pray for Peace.
God Bless.
Posted by VictoriaRum at 06:56 AM : Apr 03, 2007
Praying has never brought about peace. - Reply to this comment
- Pray for Peace.
God Bless. - Reply to this comment
- It is somewhat amusing that "Christians" are totally oblivious to the similarities between their cults and Muslim cults.
Posted by tuckerndfw at 06:25 AM : Apr 03, 2007
Not only oblivious, but in complete denial. Their manual condems all other religions as "false" yet they point to the Quran doing the same as being "barbaric". Go figure.... - Reply to this comment
- And this same guy condemns martyr worship. Go figure....
Posted by formrusmcsgt at 06:16 AM : Apr 03, 2007
It is somewhat amusing that "Christians" are totally oblivious to the similarities between their cults and Muslim cults.
Christian mythology is filled with stories about "martyrs," including the central character in Christian mythology, yet Christians totally ignore their own mythology in their zeal to denounce Muslims.
I think that's an example of what the bible calls "hypocrisy." - Reply to this comment
- -I have Jesus in my heart and know what He did on the cross for me and everyone else.
Posted by singinrick at 02:46 AM : Apr 03, 2007
And this same guy condemns martyr worship. Go figure.... - Reply to this comment
- Man do they need the Lord Jesus Christ. Big time.
Posted by singinrick at 01:49 AM : Apr 03, 2007
According to George Bush and at least one of his General Officers, the US military is operating on direct behalf of Jesus.
Which begs the question as to why Jesus needs to slaughter so many innocent men, women and children, including babies.
It appears Iraqis not only don't need Jesus, they don't much care for his tactics (murder, torture, rape, humiliation, kidnapping, confinement without charges or trials, wanton destruction of private property, etc. ad infinitum).
Based on Jesus' performance in Iraq, I can't see where his presence is of any benefit to anyone other than war profiteers. - Reply to this comment
singinrick
Sounds like you need Jesus as well.
Tired of extremists?
Fundamentalism is scary isn't it?
It robs people of their God-given ability to reason.- Reply to this comment
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