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2007-02-03 Iraq

Truck bomb kills more than 120 in Baghdad

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Posted by DepotGuy 2007-02-03 13:46|| || Front Page|| [11128 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Why are we wasting our time and blood on these people?

Posted by Thoth 2007-02-03 16:10|| 2007-02-03 16:10|| Front Page Top

#2 What we should do instead of the surge is pull out of the cities and cover the Iran and Syrian Border and the Kurdish area where we are welcome. Then we allow the wackos to kill eachother until they are all dead or tired of killing and being killed. Stepping in the middle of a religious blood letting is nuts. We still have a presence and Iran is cut out of the action.

Posted by Keystone 2007-02-03 16:47|| 2007-02-03 16:47|| Front Page Top

#3 Food Truck bomb kills more than 120 in Baghdad

holy shi'ite it's raining steel carrots!

Posted by Mr Green Jeans 2007-02-03 17:17|| 2007-02-03 17:17|| Front Page Top

#4 This just shows you how bad we need Tater's Tots to protect the Shi'ites.

Suspects? Iran, Tots, and Sunnis - in that order.

Posted by Bobby 2007-02-03 17:46|| 2007-02-03 17:46|| Front Page Top

#5 Where does this lead? It is clearly just more Muslim terrorism, no different than Bali clubs, NY office towers, or London subways, but directed at other Muslims instead of Westerners. Do we end up with a Lebanon-style civil war, with the equivalent of a million (or more) dead? Would even that escalate into a regional Shia-Sunni war, even broader than the Iran-Iraq war, with multiple millions killed over decades? Is that what would happen if the US pulled out, leaving nothing to restrain the native anti-civilization forces? Worse thought - would this be a bad thing?

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-02-03 17:52|| 2007-02-03 17:52|| Front Page Top

#6 Wretchard, on Belmont Club, expressed the situation perfectly, though specifically referenced to Gaza:
"The intifada eventually becomes a circular firing squad."

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-02-03 17:58|| 2007-02-03 17:58|| Front Page Top

#7 There ya go Glenmore, circular Russian R-you know what [don't want to go to Roadside America for the R-word]

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2007-02-03 19:05|| 2007-02-03 19:05|| Front Page Top

#8 This is a classic Baathist terror op : slaughter as many civilians as possible in as horrific manner as possible. Remember, the Baathists used poison gas on civilians, ran people feet first through plastics shredders, and ran rape centers to punish families of regime opponents. This type of scum you do NOT surrender to or walk away from, you exterminate them. To permit their terrorism to continue and wash your hands of the situation is the same as deciding NOT to wipe the Nazis out because you could not effectively should down Auschwitz -- in other words, make the slaughter horrific enough and the terrorist is allowed to win by default.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2007-02-03 20:47|| 2007-02-03 20:47|| Front Page Top

#9 Should read, "shut down Auschwitz".

Posted by Shieldwolf 2007-02-03 20:48|| 2007-02-03 20:48|| Front Page Top

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