Massacres, Hostages and Bombings - News from the front

[mikelewis]

Well today looks to be another red banner day in Iraq. Appearantly, things are quickly decending into complete chaos as insurgents commit horrific attacks.

There's too many attacks to post and remain anywhere close to the maximum 4 paragraphs allowed so I'll just give you the run down.

19 people, possibly Iraqi military were found shot to death in a football stadium.

More than 50 people were discovered in the Tigris river, presumably these people were among the 100 or so hostages reportedly taken from the Madain region earlier this month.

A rash of politcal assasinations occured throughout the country leaving roughly 15 people dead including 2 Americans.

3 Car bombs exploded killing 3 and wounding 10

A Shiite legislator was picked up by an American checkpoint and allegedly humiliated. Supposedly, he was linked to an anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.

I'd like to offer some witty commentary but I'm actually a bit too disgusted to even mock our success in Iraq. Mission Accomplished, what an asshole.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050420/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4465769.stm


Oddly enough:
"Gallup Finds 53% Feel Iraq War Not Worth It; Will Media Probe Why?"
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000891594

Ummmm.... duh! How much of a probe do they need to do? Will the media probe the reasons why 98.6% of men don't want their testicles struck with a ballpeen hammer? Man, the media sucks.