Four suicide bombings kill 175 in Iraq »
Posted By JamesMarcus 1 year, 2 months ago in NewsFour suicide bombers hit a Kurdish Yazidi community in northwest Iraq on Tuesday, killing at least 175 people and wounding 200 others, the Iraqi military said. The bombs tore through communities near Qahataniya, 75 miles west of Mosul, Iraq's third-largest city.
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HistoricallyCorrect1 year, 2 months ago
This is all the peace that we're responsible for, right? I dunno about you guys, but I don't want our troops sent to this.
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libsRfunny1 year, 2 months ago
"More great news from Iraq. Will this senseless killing never end?"
Yeah, when dems buck up and give our sodliers the support and tools necessary to help eradicate Al Qaeda in Iraq.
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blinkers1 year, 2 months ago
Thoughtless comment. Al Quaeda are in Iraq BECAUSE American troops are there! And the centuries old rivalry between Sunni and Shia would bubble on regardless of Al Qaeda's presence.
If you finally manage to stop laughing at "libs", try and work out why Shi'ite Muslims are not involved in Al Quaeda, and why Al Quaeda had no presence in Iraq before the American invasion.
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Raiderwall1 year, 2 months ago
libs, you're a little cynical here. You've got to buck up. According to President Bush, we have enough troops, and they have enough equpment, to get the job done. Bush listens to what his generals tell him and he gives them everything they need for victory. So what, if it's already taken longer than WWII. Them Al Qaida guys are a lot more resilent than the Japanese or Germans were.
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ybdogsct1 year, 2 months ago
LIBSRFUNNY:
"Yeah, when dems buck up and give our sodliers the support and tools necessary to help eradicate Al Qaeda in Iraq."
What a laughable assertion, considering that for 12 years the Republican-controlled Congress
1) underfunded veterans hospitals like Walter Reed
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar...
"Schumer called for the creation of an independent commission to examine conditions at all medical facilities treating military personnel and veterans..'We should not send troops into combat if they don't have equipment and if they don't have the training they need,' Murtha, a Vietnam veteran, said."
2) enacted a troop surge opposed by Generals Abizaid, Casey, and Dempsey, which only lead to more troop casualties
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ybdogsct1 year, 2 months ago
3) failed to supply adequate body and vehicle armor.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?st...
"John Soltz: 'We are the troops. We're sitting next to Leader Pelosi because the Republicans don't support the troops...If y'all want to talk about not supporting the troops, go over to the Republican side and ask them why they voted against body armor in the Senate, not once, but twice in 2003. That's not supporting the troops."
http://mikulski.senate.gov/record.cfm?id=269346
"Senator Mikulski (D-MD) said, 'It is completely unacceptable that, after nearly four years in Iraq, we still have not provided our troops with the equipment they need to protect themselves on the battlefield. I will continue to fight to make sure they have the body armor they need to stay safe in Iraq.'"
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ybdogsct1 year, 2 months ago
4) underfunded the Montgomery GI Bill
http://www.sunmt.org/militaryed.html
"The advertisements blare: Join the military and receive $70,000 for college...In fact, 57% of the veterans who signed up for the Montgomery GI Bill (MGIB) have never seen a penny in college assistance, and the average net payout to veterans has been only $2151. Primarily, the low average net is the result of the many military personnel who the Department of Defense (DoD) declares ineligible, and of the challenges faced by veterans trying to access the promised money even if they are eligible."
5) extended tour duties
http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,FL_...
"The Pentagon issued its latest stop-loss order in June, forcing thousands of men and women to stay in the military and requiring many to return to combat duty well beyond their agreed-upon period of active service. Thousands of members of the all-volunteer armed forces no longer are serving voluntarily."
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ybdogsct1 year, 2 months ago
6) Remember this?
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/iraq/co...
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/12/08/rumsf...
"'Why do we soldiers have to dig through local landfills for pieces of scrap metal and compromised ballistic glass to uparmor our vehicles?' asked Thomas Wilson, Army Spc. of the 278th Regimental Combat Team. The question prompted cheers from some of the approximately 2,300 troops assembled in the large hangar.
About the shortage of armor-protected vehicles in Iraq, Rumsfeld told the troops: 'As you know, you go to war with the army you have. They're not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time. You can have all the armor in the world on a tank, and it can [still] be blown up.'
'I understand how you may be forced into a situation earlier than you'd like where you might not have everything you want, but it's now going into the third year,' Dodd (D-CT) said.
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ybdogsct1 year, 2 months ago
PROTOHAM:
"Big deal, 198 people have been murdered in Baltimore this year."
How can you equate Baltimore's homicide count for the ENTIRE YEAR to the fatality count from one DAY of violence in Iraq and claim that they're comparable?
Show me a region in the U.S. with comparable population size (Iraq population = 28 million est.) with an annual homicide rate of 14,220 fatalities (52174 fatalities/3.67 year = 14220 fatalities per year).
And don't forget to cite your sources.
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-wo...
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/mideast/RS22537.pdf
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Varadinum1 year, 2 months ago
Iraq will be another Vietnam for US troops. Poor guys still fighting for The First Cowboy
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quackpot1 year, 2 months ago
Since the bombings were not in Baghdad, where the surge is located, Bush will still claim that the surge is working well.
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phleghem011 year, 2 months ago
This attack wasn't against Shiites, it wasn't against Sunnis, it wasn't even against Americans. What political statement was being made? How does this attack demonstrate anything besides the cold-blooded mindset of a group of people who value life at less than zero?
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phleghem011 year, 2 months ago
So you're arguing that our presence in Iraq (which I agree with you is a bad idea) somehow caused this attack on a group of people that, as far as I can see, weren't involved in any fighting, and weren't allied with anyone. How did we provide justification for this attack? Please explain how there can possibly be any justification for this attack.
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GHOSTWHOWALKS1 year, 2 months ago
Way past time for the Congress to grow some balls and get the f**k out of Iraq.
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splitrch1 year, 2 months ago
"Saw a piece on TV recently ,talking about how the Kurdish were enjoying relative peace in the midst of all the madness."
That's part of why they were attacked. They have allot of oil up north and a burgeoning economy. By destroying the example of a better possibility for Iraq, the bastards who did this also destroy hope for those Iraqis not living in the Kurdish north. This is sickening on so many levels I think I need to vomit now.
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rosengj1 year, 2 months ago
Please help me get Cindy Sheehan nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize!
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Tell your friends!!!
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willottica1 year, 2 months ago
Well, one way is that Bush encouraged the removal of the Iraqi government. Though some may have disagreed with its tactics, the government of Saddam Hussein was very harsh in dealing with people who would do just this kind of thing... So, if the U.S. had not gone into Iraq and removed the controlling force, some control might still remain.
I'm not saying Saddam was good, just that he maintained some order in the region.
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Antitax1 year, 2 months ago
I think you hit the key point. Some yahoo decides to kill hundreds of his own kind for the sake of some stupid religion and that is Bush's fault. Go figure.
Reminds me of the two 15 year olds in Boston playing street hockey in an alley. A rotweiller attacks one and the other beats him off with a hockey stick. A reporter (blogger) witness the event. He screamed the headline is young Bruins fan saves local boy. The boy said but I am a Ranger fan. Undettered the blogger yells, OK young hoodlum from NY kills loving family pet.
The power of spin. Both were lies, but m,ost would believe either in print!
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