"Iraq Car Bombs Kill 46: Officials" (does this mean they are combat troops again?)

[another saigon]

Published on Wednesday, August 25, 2010 by Agence France-Presse

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/08/25-2

BAGHDAD - A series of apparently coordinated car bombs targeting police across Iraq on Wednesday killed 46 people, including women and children, one day after the US military confirmed a major troop reduction.



A man carries an injured child after a bombing in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010. A string of attacks targeting Iraqi security forces on Wednesday left several people dead and scores wounded, police and hospital officials said the day after the number of American soldiers in the country fell bellow 50,000.(AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)


The trail of bloodshed started in the capital Baghdad before stretching to the north and south of the country, hitting a total of seven cities and towns in quick succession in tactics that bore the hallmark of Al-Qaeda.

In the worst attack, a car bomb at a passport office in Kut, 160 kilometres (100 miles) southeast of Baghdad, killed 20 people, including 15 police, and wounded 90 people, most of them police, Lieutenant Ali Hussein told AFP.

In Baghdad, a suicide car bomber blew up his vehicle at a police station in the northeastern suburb of Qahira, killing 15 people and wounding dozens of others, security and medical officials said.

The attack in the mixed Sunni-Shiite neighbourhood took place at around 8 am (0500 GMT), according to an interior ministry official who gave the toll. "The victims include policemen and civilians," he said.



"hallmark of Al-Qaeda"! who writes this shit?

[GSLevel9]

1. there IS no war in Iraq. That's what they said on TV last week. nt

[tabatha]

3. Car bombing does not equal war.

[GSLevel9]

4. omg... lol.

I'm REALLY sorry for laughing at you but that's got to be the most ludicrous thing I've heard.

For it to REALLY be war... would a cruise missile have been more appropriate? Or a tank, maybe LOTS of tanks?

[tabatha]

7. Your answer is the most ludicrous things I have heard.

Did the car bombing at the Murrah building = war?

Did the car bombings in East Africa = war?

Did the car bombings in Ireland = war?

[another saigon]

10. were any of those places

occupied at the time by a few hundred thousand foreign occupiers?

[tabatha]

14. The "occupiers" were not targeted .

"Insurgents have been stepping up their attacks on Iraq's security forces in recent months as the U.S. has trimmed its military presence in the country. At least half of those killed — 30 — were Iraqi soldiers and policemen."

Repeat - "attacks on Iraq's security forces".

"Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said the stalled government, combined with the American troop withdrawal, created ideal conditions for insurgents to attack. Even so, he said the security situation was "under control."

"Here you have a government paralysis, you have a political vacuum ... you have the U.S. troop withdrawal," he said to The Associated Press. "And in such environment these terrorist networks flourish actually and would love to deepen divisions among Iraqi politicians to apportion blame on each other in order to create as much chaos as possible."

It is Iraqis against Iraqis, and the pullout of US troops, which means the US troops are NOT ENGAGED in combat, have provided the conditions for these attacks.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38832649


PLEASE TRY applying a little logic.

[GSLevel9]

17. sigh...

so if the "War" is the Government and it's US allies against a loosely knit group of insurgents bent on political upheaval...

A successful attack on the populace is a victory on the forces there trying to keep the populace safe.

Sorry... but you got nuthin'. Iraq is a fucking mess... the war is NOT over... and US soldiers will be there 10 years from now.

[tabatha]

18. Your response makes no sense at all.

I knew it would not, since it started off with "sigh".

[another saigon]

19. occupiers, collaborators

it makes no difference to the resistance. Have you read any war history?

[slampoet]

21. Wow. Don't revel in your ignorance too much you might drown.

[gratuitous]

12. Neither does flying a plane into a building

But we've defined acts of war down pretty substantially in the last decade, such that all kinds of things other people do are now considered acts of war. Naturally, nothing we do in Iraq from here on will constitute "war," but that's because we're so exceptional!

[tabatha]

15. Agreed.

The Afghan war was started because of 911.

The Iraq war was started because of trumped up charges of weapons of mass destruction.

[tabatha]

2. I thought the Iraqi forces are supposed to take care of that .

NOT the US forces.

[another saigon]

9. I believe you thought wrong

as I understand it was only a name change. Our troops will still be doing, fifth, sixth and seventh tours for the foreseeable future. Just another 'mission accomplished' moment for the US minus the aircraft carrier.

[tabatha]

16. They (Iraqis) apparently are

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38832649

[EOTE]

5. Hallmark of Al-Qaeda?

Featuring such gems as:

Front: So sorry you've been suicide bombed.

Inside: But I'm guessing those 72 virgins are looking mighty nice now. Wishing you the happiest of afterlives!

Hallmark of Al-Qaeda™

[slackmaster]

6. "Culture Of Peace" again?

:argh:

[The_Casual_Observer]

8. The Iraqi army is a joke. Eventually there will be some kind of a coupe that

we of course, didn't see coming.

[another saigon]

20. oh yes

there will be a CIA coupe, with our very own puppet king like our brutal Shah of Iran.

[seabeyond]

11. no, it means bush started a unjust war and obama is pulling us out. hence, the escalated violence

that is sure to come.

but wtf... if you want to continue spending for bush war with both money and lives.... cheer it on

[kenny blankenship]

13. It's not a Combat zone. It's an Adventure zone

Maybe some of the novelty has worn off, but over there you still never know what will happen to you tomorrow. That's an adventure. Didn't Disney always some overlap between Adventureland and Frontierland? Just because bombs go off and people shoot at you doesn't mean you HAVE to be in Combatland. We can call it whatever we want.