Market Bombing Marks Another Bloody Month in Iraq
3 Comments Published by LeftyHenry on Sunday at 1:17 AM.
Today mortar shells and bicycle bombs went off in a market in Mahmoudiya, Iraq. Between 18 and 20 were killed and up to 60 were wounded. That brings this month's death toll to 907 civilian war related casualties. The UN claims that at least 100 Iraqis are kiled daily. Three and a half years into the war, almost 2800 American soldiers have died and according to a recent study, 655,000 civilians have died.
October, with a week left, has already been marked as the bloodiest month in the war since April 2005. The recent death estimates mixed with the ongoing civil war in Iraq have prompted some officials like a top British General recently, to claim it's time to leave.
My opinion has from the begining been that this war will lead us nowhere and that it is extremely bloody. The worst part is that Iraq was better under Saddam then it is now. There is fucking ethnic cleansing going on between two groups who simply disagree on who succeeded Mohammed. What will be interesting to see now is how we'll deal with Iran and North Korea now. President Bush has successfully, gotten us into the middle of a civil war, tied up our troops in Iraq, and thus now cannot deal with the real threats. It's almost like some twisted and tragic comedy where everything has gone insanely wrong!
I think Christopher Hitchens and Paul Wolfowitz, had a vision, that never happened. How can Bush, Rumsfeld and Cheney be liberators?
I love the makeover. What did you do to the place?
Dave,
LOL thanks. I was kinda getting bored of the old look.
Ren,
Kinda funny remembering a year or two ago when Cheney said the insurgency "is in it's last throws."