BAGHDAD, April 15, 2008

Deadly Blasts Break Recent Calm In Iraq

Nearly 60 People Killed In Trio Of Attacks In Predominantly Sunni Areas

    • Women injured in a car bomb attack are brought to a hospital in Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, Tuesday, April 15, 2008. According to police and hospital officials, at least 38 people were killed and 64 wounded in the blast when a car parked in front of a restaurant in downtown Baqouba exploded, just before noon on Tuesday, across the street from the central courthouse and other government offices. Photo

      Women injured in a car bomb attack are brought to a hospital in Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, Tuesday, April 15, 2008. According to police and hospital officials, at least 38 people were killed and 64 wounded in the blast when a car parked in front of a restaurant in downtown Baqouba exploded, just before noon on Tuesday, across the street from the central courthouse and other government offices.  (AP Photo/Adem Hadei)

    • Residents look at Iraqi security forces inspecting area after a parked car bomb exploded in downtown Baghdad, Tuesday, April 15, 2008. Photo

      Residents look at Iraqi security forces inspecting area after a parked car bomb exploded in downtown Baghdad, Tuesday, April 15, 2008.  (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

    • Young Iraqi children look through a hole caused by an airstrike in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City in Baghdad, Tuesday, April 15, 2008. Photo

      Young Iraqi children look through a hole caused by an airstrike in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City in Baghdad, Tuesday, April 15, 2008.  (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

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(CBS/AP)  Bombings blamed on al Qaeda in Iraq tore through market areas in Baghdad and outside the capital, killing nearly 60 people and shattering weeks of relative calm in Sunni-dominated areas.

The bloodshed - in four cities as far north as Mosul and as far west as Ramadi - struck directly at U.S. claims that the Sunni insurgency is waning and being replaced by Shiite militia violence as a major threat.

The deadliest blasts took place in Baqouba and Ramadi, two cities where the U.S. military has claimed varying degrees of success in getting Sunnis to turn against al Qaeda.

In Baqouba, the Diyala provincial capital 35 miles northeast of the capital, a parked car exploded about 11:30 a.m. in front of a restaurant across the street from the central courthouse and other government offices.

Many of the victims were on their way to the court, at the restaurant or in cars passing through the area. A man identifying himself as Abu Sarmad had just ordered lunch.

"I heard a big explosion and hot wind threw me from my chair to outside the restaurant," he said from his hospital bed.

The force of the blast jolted the concrete barriers erected along the road to protect the courthouse, witnesses said.

At least 40 people were killed and 70 wounded, according to hospital officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to release the information.

The U.S. military in northern Iraq gave a slightly lower toll, saying 35 Iraqi citizens were killed, including a policeman, and 66 wounded. It said the blast destroyed three buses and damaged 10 shops.

AP Television News footage showed many of the bodies covered in crisp white sheets and black plastic bags in a hospital courtyard while the emergency room inside was overwhelmed with the wounded.

It was the deadliest bombing in Iraq since March 6, when a twin bombing killed 68 people in a crowded shopping district in the central Baghdad district of Karradah. The attack was also the deadliest in Baqouba since The Associated Press began tracking Iraqi casualties in late April 2005.

The U.S. military said Tuesday that attacks in Baqouba have dropped noticeably since last June. But a series of assassinations and other high-profile attacks have occurred in and around the city this year, and American commanders have consistently warned that al Qaeda-led insurgents continue to pose a serious danger.

"Although attacks such as today's event are tragic, it is not indicative of the overall security situation in Baqouba," Maj. Mike Garcia, a spokesman for U.S. forces in Diyala province, said in a statement.

According to an AP count, at least 126 Iraqis have been killed in war-related violence in Baqouba so far in 2008; the majority, 65, were killed in 10 separate bombings. At least 818 Iraqis were killed in war-related violence in the city last year, up slightly from 793 the year before.

Baqouba and Ramadi were strongholds of al Qaeda in Iraq and saw some of the fiercest fighting of the U.S.-led war until local Sunni tribal leaders fed up with the terror network's brutal tactics joined forces with the U.S. military against it last year.

The Sunni revolt, an influx of some 30,000 American troops and a cease-fire by radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr led to a decline in violence there as well as in Baghdad.

In particular, the U.S. military has touted Ramadi as a success story. The former al Qaeda stronghold, 70 miles west of Baghdad, is the capital of Anbar province and has largely been sealed off by checkpoints.

Tuesday's bombing in Ramadi came about an hour after the Baqouba attack.

A suicide attacker on a motorcycle drove up to a kebab restaurant, went inside and detonated his explosives vest, killing at least 13 people, including three off-duty policemen and two children, and wounding 20, according to police and hospital officials.

Ahmed al-Dulaimi, a 27-year-old mechanic, escaped injury because he was sitting at a back table. But he said his cousin, who owned the restaurant, was killed.

"Suddenly a motorcycle parked near the restaurant and a man came running in and then a huge explosion took place," al-Dulaimi said. "Pieces of flesh flew into the air and the roof fell over us."

The blast in central Baghdad also took place shortly after midday. A parked car bomb targeted a police patrol, killing four civilians who were passing by and wounding 15 other people, police said.

The U.S. military condemned the bombings in Baqouba, Ramadi and Baghdad and said they appeared to have been carried out by al Qaeda in Iraq.

The fourth bombing took place in Mosul, a city 225 miles northwest of Baghdad that the U.S. military has called the last urban stronghold for al Qaeda in Iraq.

At 3:45 p.m., a double car bombing wounded three Iraqi policemen and 15 civilians, the U.S. military said. Iraqi police Brig. Gen. Khalid Abdul-Satter said the attack killed one civilian was killed and wounded 16 others.

U.S.-allied Sunni fighters have found themselves increasingly targeted by violence and frustrated by a perceived lack of support by the Shiite-dominated government.

The purported leader of the al Qaeda umbrella group, the Islamic State of Iraq, called on those who switched sides to return to the insurgency. He made his statement in an Internet audiotape posted Tuesday on a militant Web site.

Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, whom the U.S. has described as a fictitious character used to give an Iraqi face to the organization, urged the Sunnis to direct their arms against "the Crusaders and those who support them," using typical militant rhetoric for the United States.

While the Sunni insurgency has recently appeared to wane, the U.S. military has increasingly pointed to Shiite militia violence as one of the greatest threats to Iraq's stability.

On Tuesday, Shiite extremists clashed again with U.S.-Iraqi forces in Baghdad and the oil-rich southern city of Basra.

U.S. soldiers backed by an airstrike killed six militants after a gunbattle broke out in the Sudayrah area, near Baghdad's main Shiite militia stronghold of Sadr City, the military said. Iraqi police in the area claimed that two boys were among those killed in the airstrike, but the military said no civilian casualties were reported.

In southern Iraq, three aides to Iraq's top Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, escaped assassination in separate attacks Tuesday, although two of them were seriously wounded, police said.

The attacks came four days after a top al-Sadr aide was assassinated in Najaf.

In other developments:

  • The State Department is warning U.S. diplomats they may be forced to serve in Iraq next year and says it will soon start identifying prime candidates for jobs at the Baghdad embassy and outlying provinces.

  • The purported leader of al Qaeda's affiliate in Iraq called in a new Internet audiotape Tuesday on Sunni fighters who switched sides and joined the American push to pacify Sunni areas of the country, to return to the insurgency. In the recording, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, who allegedly heads the Islamic State of Iraq, called on Sunni unity and urged Sunnis in the Iraqi army, police and the so-called "Awakening Councils" to abandon fighting the mujahideen, and instead turn their guns toward the "Crusader" enemy - shorthand for U.S. troops in Iraq.

  • In northern Iraq, meanwhile, a parked car bomb exploded near an Iraqi army convoy west of Mosul, killing 12 Kurdish soldiers and wounding five, police chief Col. Mutlaq al-Shimmari said.

  • In Tal Afar, south of Mosul, a suicide bomber attacked a funeral for a Shiite family, killing five people and wounding 22, Mayor Najim Abdullah said.



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by tbweb April 15, 2008 6:11 AM PDT
If these car and suicide bombers think they are impressing people, making some kind of point, sending some kind of message, I hate to be the one to break it to you all, because from where I sit, you all look like a bunch of brain washed fools, serious business!
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by crater7 April 15, 2008 6:28 AM PDT
BUSH''S, WORLDS GREATEST MILITARY BLUNDER OF ALL TIME, CONTINUES. ONE CAN ONLY WONDER IF THIS BOMB BLAST SITE IS ON THE SAME STREET THAT McCAIN SAID IT WAS SAFE TO WALK DOWN? SURGE ON....

GOD "BLESS" AMERICA. NOT "G D" AMERICA.
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by demslie April 15, 2008 6:35 AM PDT
If these car and suicide bombers think they are impressing people, making some kind of point, sending some kind of message, I hate to be the one to break it to you all, because from where I sit, you all look like a bunch of brain washed fools, serious business!

Posted by tbweb

As I said yesterday, When the Iraqi Army raided the terrorist compound in Basra and set free the captured Journalist, the Al Qaeda murderers would have to do something to take that good news away and give the Democrats something to again denounce the United States with. Right on time, Al Qaeda bombed a small village town with no military importance what so ever. All they wanted to do is work with their partners, the Democrats, to give them something to immediately continue the Anti-Ameican Hate Rants as usual. As you can see by these posts, it worked. Al Qaeda provided the dead bodies of women and children and Democrats provide the Anger and Hate for America, right on time, as expected.
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by byeneocons April 15, 2008 7:31 AM PDT
Wow, the surge is working great! Bushie, you''re doing a heckuva job.
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by swwils April 15, 2008 7:31 AM PDT
We won the war but everyday we lose the country.These extremist have been at each others throats for centuries and will remain so ,even when we are long gone.An enemy that will suicide bomb their own can not be defeated.
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by byeneocons April 15, 2008 7:34 AM PDT
Demslie: It wasn''t the democrats who gave us 9/11 and two bloody wars. It was your reformed drunk trustfunder neocon hero.

Yes, we hate unnecessary bloodshed, and we hate to see our troops die, and we hate idiots like you who created this mess.
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by samrensho April 15, 2008 7:41 AM PDT
Mission accomplished GW. You da man with your surge. Well, what can you expect when you elect an alcoholic imbecile as president.
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by grim56z April 15, 2008 7:55 AM PDT
Al Mazri ordered the deaths of fifty innocent Iraqis. He should be captured and put on trial for war crimes by an international court. Al Qada Iraq is nothing more than a group of desperate felons. Did the Allies allow Nazis to continue the slaughter during World War II?
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by mcvet April 15, 2008 8:02 AM PDT
vote mccain more of the same! bootlicker! swastika breath!! seig heil bush!! and all that other liberal jibberish!! there now you libs can go spend your day doing something else...i already covered your posts.


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Posted by jamesm12341 at 07:44 AM : Apr 15, 2008
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How so? You covered the FACT that the present day Republican Party is FASCIST but that''s not news, anyone attending a Republican Party Rally in Georgia KNOWS this. The posters on here are concerned with the REALITY that a 6 month War that never had to be is NOW going into it''s 6th YEAR and even the General now in charge admits there is NO light at the end of the tunnel. Have you considered mental help? That could make a difference in your ability to understand the English Language spoken by those not in the "party"! Sieg Heil Bush!!
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by pollroller1 April 15, 2008 8:05 AM PDT
The pipe line is OK and the oil is still flowing. So money is still coming in to our exalted leaders.
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by briannorwood April 15, 2008 8:14 AM PDT
"Further proof, my friends that the surge is working. The surge is working" -- John McCain
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by ioweign April 15, 2008 8:16 AM PDT
As I said yesterday, When the Iraqi Army raided the terrorist compound in Basra and set free the captured Journalist, the Al Qaeda murderers would have to do something to take that good news away and give the Democrats something to again denounce the United States with. Right on time, Al Qaeda bombed a small village town with no military importance what so ever. All they wanted to do is work with their partners, the Democrats, to give them something to immediately continue the Anti-Ameican Hate Rants as usual. As you can see by these posts, it worked. Al Qaeda provided the dead bodies of women and children and Democrats provide the Anger and Hate for America, right on time, as expected.


Posted by demslie at 06:35 AM : Apr 15, 2008

You do seem to be able to forecast events in Iraq. You are not Nostradamus. Hmmm What can be the connection there, al Know-It-Al
Ever been to GITMO ??


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by demslie April 15, 2008 8:22 AM PDT
Posted by demslie at 06:35 AM : Apr 15, 2008

You do seem to be able to forecast events in Iraq. You are not Nostradamus. Hmmm What can be the connection there, al Know-It-Al
Ever been to GITMO ??

Posted by IOWEIGN

I''m not sure what the IOWEIGN rant has to do with anything other than the Democrats famous standard of disagree to disagree. But there were many people yesterday who said that Al Qaeda would have to bomb some innocent targets to give the Democrats a body count and deflect any good news. That happened right on time and here are the Democrats, right on time, denouncing the United States in complete partnership with the genocidal terrorists. Even the visit of the Pope has Democrats denouncing Christianity in concert with their friends in Iran and Al Qaeda. And these people are the ones we should vote for so they can bring a "New Change to America"?
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by trishab4 April 15, 2008 8:33 AM PDT
If these car and suicide bombers think they are impressing people, making some kind of point, sending some kind of message, I hate to be the one to break it to you all, because from where I sit, you all look like a bunch of brain washed fools, serious business!
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Posted by tbweb at 06:11 AM : Apr 15, 2008

-No real signature by authors of the bombings. Who has most interest in creating such state of instability requesting more security presence? Is it Iraqis? I doubt it... No suicide bombin here. More of telebombs set off at distance. Must be some cowards...
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by dorlockt April 15, 2008 8:39 AM PDT
I''''m not sure what the IOWEIGN rant has to do with anything other than the Democrats famous standard of disagree to disagree. But there were many people yesterday who said that Al Qaeda would have to bomb some innocent targets to give the Democrats a body count and deflect any good news. That happened right on time and here are the Democrats, right on time, denouncing the United States in complete partnership with the genocidal terrorists. Even the visit of the Pope has Democrats denouncing Christianity in concert with their friends in Iran and Al Qaeda. And these people are the ones we should vote for so they can bring a "New Change to America"?

Posted by demslie at 08:22 AM : Apr 15, 2008


But they wouldn''t be good little democrats if they didn''t hate America first.
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by pollroller1 April 15, 2008 8:41 AM PDT
OH, we''re off to see the wizard, the wonderful wizard of DC. Oh Toto will we ever be able to get back home.
I''m Bushie your fairy god father and of course you will my dear. Just as soon as we finish getting the oil from the land of Iraq. We should be done here in about another one hundred years or so and then you and Toto will be sent back home. Now click your guns together and repeat after me. I will protect the oil, I will protect the oil, I will protect the oil.
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by arlt1627 April 15, 2008 9:02 AM PDT
It''''s hard enough fighting these maniac Muslims on our own. The liberal democrats only make it tougher right here in our homeland with their constant pacifism and appeasement of evil.

Posted by liberalbias1 at 08:57 AM : Apr 15, 2008


Yeah. This is just idiotic. You think that Republicans made Hitler & Mussolini then?? That''s the stupid comparison you made......ridiculous.
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by bgwinnett April 15, 2008 9:13 AM PDT
liberalbias1 -"It''''''''s a fight of good vs evil", "in a galaxy far, far, far away".

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Yay I like Star Wars

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by newsterl April 15, 2008 9:16 AM PDT
Yeah too bad georgie and his brothers in crime weren''t standing over there near that car when this event happened, we''d finally be rid of this madman!
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by newsterl April 15, 2008 9:17 AM PDT
Al Mazri ordered the deaths of fifty innocent Iraqis. He should be captured and put on trial for war crimes by an international court. Al Qada Iraq is nothing more than a group of desperate felons. Did the Allies allow Nazis to continue the slaughter during World War II?

Posted by Grim56Z

No such thing as ''innocent'' over there, we should just pull out and let em fall or make it on their own, its not our problem.
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by newsterl April 15, 2008 9:20 AM PDT
ONE CAN ONLY WONDER IF THIS BOMB BLAST SITE IS ON THE SAME STREET THAT McCAIN SAID IT WAS SAFE TO WALK DOWN? SURGE ON...."

Notice that they had to SNEAK in there on a ''surprise visit'' too before LOL
Meanwhile Iraq greeted the pres of Iran with flowers and celebrations, they are SO happy we are there our people have to SNEAK in, but the surge is working RIGHT?

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by arlt1627 April 15, 2008 9:22 AM PDT
Liberal democrats are appeasers and most of them are moral relativists and atheists. Meaning they don''''t believe in absolute good vs absolute evil. Everything is gray to them.


So let me get this straight. Conservative Republicans then are the same thing? In the 1920s-1930s they "appeased" the world with Isolationism and therefore allowed the evil Hitlers, Mussolinis and others to come to power? We can''t be the world''s police power any longer. It is much to costly and we will bankrupt ourselves. Plus much of our so called "moral authority" has been lost in the eyes of the world when we lied about the reasons to invade Iraq. We''re seen as fraudulent. So you can talk all you want about morals and absolutes, but that doesn''t change that image.
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by mcvet April 15, 2008 9:25 AM PDT
Good analogy. I was thinking the same thing myself

Atheist Liberals = The Dark Side of the Force

Conservatives = The Good Side


Great analogy!


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Posted by liberalbias1 at 09:14 AM : Apr 15, 2008
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IF you can muster enough orginal thought you pathetic Bootlicker I''d like for you to explain that post!! When you look back through the pages of our history I can find NO support for that insane statement what so ever. EVERY right we have or have gained was because some LIBERAL stood up for it. EVERY time our freedom has been challenged from within it was a LIBERAL who stood up and said so. I mean I guess it''s okay to be ignorant and a fascist but you are beyond that... WAY beyond. Sieg Heil Bush
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by arlt1627 April 15, 2008 9:25 AM PDT
There are thousands upon thousands of innocent civilians over there you idiot. And the USA (the good guys) are protecting them from the maniac muslim jihadists just like they''''re doing for you.

Posted by liberalbias1 at 09:23 AM : Apr 15, 2008


What about the innocent civilians in Rwanda, Congo, Darfur, China (Tibet), Somalia? I don''t here you ranting about going to help those "innocent" ones? Why is that? Just admit that your idealistic justification for Iraq is a fraud.
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by notblue April 15, 2008 9:26 AM PDT
Just more of the same savage carnage brought to us courtesy of Muslim barbarians. Purposely targeting innocent civilians and their own democratically elected government employees. Why don''t they try and kill the "occuppiers"? Because they do not want frredom and Democracy for the Iraqi people so they eliminate them on mass scales almost every day. Most ingrates that frequent leftwing central as usual IGNORE these SAVAGE MASSACRES and blame the very Americans who fight these barbarians on behalf of all, even those that midigate and marginalize the TRUE enemy of freedom throughuot the world. Somehow they have been able to justify through self-brainwashing which allows these daily attoricities by blaming one man and other fellow Americans, a better bunch of propghandist terrorist allies the enemy could have never have dreamed of. To have the ability to ignore this daily carnage and the true cause is beyond comprehension.
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by mcvet April 15, 2008 9:28 AM PDT
There are thousands upon thousands of innocent civilians over there you idiot. And the USA (the good guys) are protecting them from the maniac muslim jihadists just like they''''re doing for you.


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Posted by liberalbias1 at 09:23 AM : Apr 15, 2008
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You know this how?? Oh Let me guess!! You get your news from the REICH (FOX)? ROFLMAO Only a Bootlicker would continue, knowing how many lies we have already been told, to believe what the Reich puts out. ROFLMAO There are 935 lies posted online.. all documented... NOT ONE truth amoung them. Put away your swastika and be an AMERICAN for a change. The Fascist LIED to you, started a War that never had to be and now we are entering the 6th year in a 6 month war. Just what part of LOSING is it you do not understand??? Sieg Heil Bush!! You really aren''t the sharpest tool in the old shed are you there sparky??? ROFLMAO
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by timdgrim April 15, 2008 9:28 AM PDT
Bush: "We''re making progress."
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by taotxzen April 15, 2008 9:28 AM PDT
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But Petty Officer Monsoor was no stranger to heroism. In May 2006, he and another SEAL risked their lives under hostile fire to save a wounded teammate. Michael simultaneously returned fire with one hand, while helping to pull his injured comrade to safety with the other. For his actions, he would earn the Silver Star.

Sometimes it''s easy for us to forget the individual acts of extraordinary bravery during these wars. But it''s incredibly important that we take the time to remember them -- not as a way to politicize the war, but as a reminder of the amazing sacrifices being made every day by our troops on the battlefield and their families back home.

Michael Monsoor was a true American hero we can all be proud of. Please share his story with your family and friends, and remind them of the courageous and selfless men and women serving our country in the Armed Forces.

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by arlt1627 April 15, 2008 9:29 AM PDT
They''''d fit right in and Ahmadenimaniacjob would give them a medal of honor for serving the Islamic cause.

Posted by liberalbias1 at 09:25 AM : Apr 15, 2008

I fail to see you logic in many of these arguments. How would Ahmadenijad attack and conquer the USA? With his missile technology that might be able to reach Israel? Or his navy that probably couldn''t make it out of the Persian Gulf with ours in the way? Or maybe by a land invasion....oh wait, we''re across the oceans? Or better yet, the 1 nuke that they don''t have? It sounds like the boogeymen of the McCarthy era have made it into your head....
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by taotxzen April 15, 2008 9:30 AM PDT

Exceptional Courage: Michael Monsoor

Posted April 14, 2008 | 09:10 PM (EST)

PAUL RIECKHOFF

Last week, General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker delivered their highly-anticipated testimony to Congress on the situation in Iraq. But with the media and the nation focused on these tense hours in Washington, another story about an American SEAL in Iraq went largely unnoticed.

On Tuesday, President Bush posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor -- the nation''s highest decoration for military valor -- to Petty Officer Second Class Michael A. Monsoor. A Navy SEAL who served in Ramadi in 2006, Monsoor surrendered his own life to save the members of his team. On Saint Michael''s Day -- September 29, 2006 -- Michael, two fellow SEALs, and three Iraqi Army soldiers were positioned on a rooftop when a grenade bounced off his chest and landed nearby. Unlike his team, Michael could have escaped the blast. Instead and without hesitation, he dove on the grenade, absorbing the explosion and saving the lives of his friends. For his exceptional courage and tremendous personal sacrifice, Michael Monsoor became the fourth Medal of Honor recipient in the War on Terror.

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by mbcsmith April 15, 2008 9:30 AM PDT
I fail to see you logic in many of these arguments. How would Ahmadenijad attack and conquer the USA? With his missile technology that might be able to reach Israel? Or his navy that probably couldn''''t make it out of the Persian Gulf with ours in the way? Or maybe by a land invasion....oh wait, we''''re across the oceans? Or better yet, the 1 nuke that they don''''t have? It sounds like the boogeymen of the McCarthy era have made it into your head....


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Posted by arlt1627 at 09:29 AM : Apr 15, 2008

You have NO FORESIGHT at all.
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by mcvet April 15, 2008 9:31 AM PDT
Posted by ddhinnyc

Finally, a voice of reason on here!

The atheist libs will blame Bush for everything. They should all be buying burkas and AK-47''''s and picking up copies of the Quran for themselves.

They''''d fit right in and Ahmadenimaniacjob would give them a medal of honor for serving the Islamic cause.


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Posted by liberalbias1 at 09:25 AM : Apr 15, 2008
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Huh??? THEY ADMITTED IT MORON!! The Defense second in command ADMITTED on NATIONAL TV that they INVADED this nation, not based on what we were told, those were lies, but on the belief, according to them, that someday we would have to fight Saddam anyway. God how stupid are you losers? He LIED to you, OVER and OVER and OVER again... a total of 935 times in a 2 year period and it''s NOT his fault??? That''s about as stupid as it can get folks... I mean as dumb as a box of rocks!! Sieg Heil Bush
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by arlt1627 April 15, 2008 9:32 AM PDT
liberalbias1,

Why don''t we just take out all the Islamic nations of the world then??? I guess that means an invasion of Indonesia since they have the most Muslims of any country in the world, Pakistan because they''re Muslims with nukes, oh and Saudi Arabia & Kuwait too while we''re at it. Your concept of morality & good v. evil is the most distorted thing I have witnessed on here in some time. What is your idea of a policy?
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by mcvet April 15, 2008 9:33 AM PDT
These atheist liberals will blame the GOP for everything, just like the manic jihadists would have it.

These maniac Muslims jump for joy every time they see an American liberal blaming America and our President for everything.

It makes their evil jihad movement that much easier to push.

The liberals are their heroes!


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Posted by liberalbias1 at 09:30 AM : Apr 15, 2008
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Hey Stupid, "Lib''s" didn''t LIE to the American People! "Lib''s" didn''t start a needless War based on those LIES! Where do you low lifes get off blaming those who had NOTHING to do with this mess for it. I mean everyone KNOWS you bootlickers can''t think for yourselves, you''ve proven it time and again, but to now try to blame those who were shouting to the top of their lungs NOT to do this for it is beneath even a bootlicker. Sieg Heil Bush
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by ajaxtheleast April 15, 2008 9:35 AM PDT
"IT" was, and is, a WAR CRIME.

A simple conveyance truth.

It''s refutation vehical is a rambling wreck
of ten-line paragrahs of wit, sarcasm and
character references hopefully at the end
of which the amazed or offended forgets
the "dreaded" war crime subject.
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by arlt1627 April 15, 2008 9:36 AM PDT
You have NO FORESIGHT at all.

Posted by mbcsmith at 09:30 AM : Apr 15, 2008


Oh no....now you''re calling me stupid. Please explain to me how invading Iraq has eliminated terrorism? If you can answer that, then I guess you''re right.

But if you admit that terrorism is still prevalent in many other countries of the world, then I''m right. Terrorism will NEVER go away because it has always been here. It is a political and military tactic and ideology that you CANNOT defeat. Its like another country trying to convince Americans that Democracy is terrible. Not gonna happen.
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by mcvet April 15, 2008 9:36 AM PDT
Unlike you, I support our brave men and women in uniform who are fighting to protect innocence like they always have in the history of our great nation.

You traitors psychotic atheist libs only dampen their morale and feed the jihadists exactly what they want to hear.

I for one am grateful that you looney far-left Moveon.orger''''s and DAILYKOS''''ers only make up a tiny witsy part of the overall population.

You loons should all move to Iran, where you''''d be praised and receive accolades from your hero, the Dark Lord of the Sith himself, Mahmoud Ahmadenimaniacmuslimjob


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Posted by liberalbias1 at 09:32 AM : Apr 15, 2008
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You sir are a LIAR!! DO you hear me a LIAR!! There are 935 LIES posted online as we speak. They were used to put our troops into this mess. NOW if you actually cared about those troops you''d be holding the LIAR who put them there responsible and NOT attacking a Vet who has been one of them. Being a fascist does NOT qualify you to make stupid statements that have NO basis in fact. Sieg Heil Bush
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by mcvet April 15, 2008 9:38 AM PDT
Sieg Heil Ahmadenimaniacmuslimjob!

Oh I''''m sorry, does that "hurt your feelings?"




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Posted by liberalbias1 at 09:35 AM : Apr 15, 2008
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Not in the least... you people wouldn''t know the truth if it jumped up and bit you... you''ve already proven that over and over and over again. Sieg Heil Bush
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by arlt1627 April 15, 2008 9:38 AM PDT
liberalbias1,

So do you have a "moral response" as to why we don''t invade on behalf of innocent peoples in Rwanda, Somalia, Darfur, Congo, Tibet, and more? I just want to know about how our "good" will help all peoples of the world!
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by yongamerica April 15, 2008 9:39 AM PDT
How would Ahmadenijad attack and conquer the USA?

He has answered your question by stating in more than one public speech that Iran has sleeper terrorist cells all throughout Europe and even in the US. He has further added that the plans his terrorist cells have prepared will make the destruction of the World Trade Center look like child''s play.
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by arlt1627 April 15, 2008 9:40 AM PDT
You share the same wicked ideologies as the maniac Muslims do anyhow! So why not go where you are desperately needed to join in on the jihad against the evil west with your fearless leader the Dark Lord of the Sith himself, Ahmadeninutjobmuslim?

Posted by liberalbias1 at 09:37 AM : Apr 15, 2008


You know what is really funny about your posts....you talk about good and evil and then reference Star Wars. I''m guessing you know that ONLY the SITH see things as "absolutes" while the JEDIS do not.....oops.
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by mcvet April 15, 2008 9:41 AM PDT
You share the same wicked ideologies as the maniac Muslims do anyhow! So why not go where you are desperately needed to join in on the jihad against the evil west with your fearless leader the Dark Lord of the Sith himself, Ahmadeninutjobmuslim?


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Posted by liberalbias1 at 09:37 AM : Apr 15, 2008
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Now I sat in front of my TV and LISTENED to YOUR President LIE to us, told us we could NOT wait for the inspectors at the UN, could NOT wait for those inspectors and the aid PROMISED by our former friends IF we allowed that to continue. HE LIED to all of us about it all and I told you so then. How does that make me so hated and him so beloved. HE lied! I didn''t! Well unless YOU believe he had the "smoking gun" and Saddam with the aid of Bin Laden were going to explode nukes in New York if we didn''t invade Iraq? You CAN''T be that stupid! Honest you CAN''T be!! Sieg Heil Bush
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by mbcsmith April 15, 2008 9:41 AM PDT
But if you admit that terrorism is still prevalent in many other countries of the world, then I''''m right. Terrorism will NEVER go away because it has always been here. It is a political and military tactic and ideology that you CANNOT defeat. Its like another country trying to convince Americans that Democracy is terrible. Not gonna happen.


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Posted by arlt1627 at 09:36 AM : Apr 15, 2008


You have NO FORESIGHT at all.
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by mcvet April 15, 2008 9:42 AM PDT
Sieg Heil MCVet! Sieg Heil Bin Laden! Sieg Heil AhmadeniNUTMUSLIMJOB!

Your heroes!


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Posted by liberalbias1 at 09:41 AM : Apr 15, 2008
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You seem to have some impression that I care about what you think of me?? How could you possibably get that impression. I''m here for one purpose... to put out the facts that WE the PEOPLE were LIED to by your fuhrer... that''s it. You''re dislike for me matters not one bit to me... NONE... ZERO! Sieg Heil Bush
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by joyous88 April 15, 2008 9:43 AM PDT
we bombed em till the bitter Bubbas were happy

we bombed em till mission accomplished

thank Gawd the surge is working
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by arlt1627 April 15, 2008 9:43 AM PDT
How would Ahmadenijad attack and conquer the USA?

He has answered your question by stating in more than one public speech that Iran has sleeper terrorist cells all throughout Europe and even in the US. He has further added that the plans his terrorist cells have prepared will make the destruction of the World Trade Center look like child''''s play.

Posted by yongamerica at 09:39 AM : Apr 15, 2008


You seriously think that terrorist cells will be able to make 9/11 look like Child''s Play?? Iran is not stupid. They know that all their leadership will be killed if they''re connected to an attack on America and their country will be destroyed. They only make these statements as a play for power & influence across the Middle East and Asian worlds.
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by bgwinnett April 15, 2008 9:43 AM PDT
"Yoda" Bush: May the Surge be with you "McCain Skywalker".
LOL!!!
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by mcvet April 15, 2008 9:44 AM PDT
He has answered your question by stating in more than one public speech that Iran has sleeper terrorist cells all throughout Europe and even in the US. He has further added that the plans his terrorist cells have prepared will make the destruction of the World Trade Center look like child''''s play.


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Posted by yongamerica at 09:39 AM : Apr 15, 2008
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Yeah and the Chairman of the USSR promised to Bury us during the 60''s... what is you point MORON. I certainly hope you aren''t implying that this guy has more ability than the USSR??? Stupid Cowards...all you fascist are simple stupid cowards. Sieg Heil Bush
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by arlt1627 April 15, 2008 9:45 AM PDT
mbcsmith

What foresight am I missing? Explain to me how this is making the world better for America? give me something.....
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by mcvet April 15, 2008 9:48 AM PDT
But it''''s true, the Dark Lord of the Sith himself, Mahmoud Ahmadenijad, applauds the effort of atheists libs in blaming the Republic of the USA for all the evil in the world!

You serve your Dark Lord well!


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Posted by liberalbias1 at 09:42 AM : Apr 15, 2008
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Where do you get this garbage? YOU wouldn''t know a "Liberal" if one walked up and smacked you! ROFLMAO You aren''t anything but a stupid bootlicker who come''s on here, not to debate the facts but in an attempt to keep folks from debating those facts. The standard fascist approach to everything... if you don''t agree with the fuhrer, if you don''t agree with the party, you aren''t an American. The Third Reich would have LOVED you! Sieg Heil Bush!! Come on Swastika Breath... let''s hear it loud some Darth can hear you in the White House!! SIEG HEIL MEIN FUHRER!! Good little nazi!!
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