At least 155 people are dead in the latest bout of residual violence in Baghdad. Merely an expected minor hiccup, of course, and nothing to be worried about, but apparently loud enough for the prime minister himself to put on his wellingtons and hazard a day trip:
In a rare personal appearance at a bombing site, Prime Minister Maliki arrived at the provincial council building about an hour after the explosion, his face ashen as he surveyed the carnage.
Around Mr. Maliki, paramedics carried the wounded to Red Crescent ambulances, workers wearing plastic gloves scooped body parts into plastic bags, and rescue teams pried open scorched cars in a desperate search for signs of life.
Surrounding streets had been blocked off and were under more than a foot of water because the blast had apparently also damaged a water main. Pools of water were red with blood.
Mr. Maliki did not venture far from his armored sport utility vehicle. He made no public comment before being driven away.
A new report from the Fund for Peace offers food for thought:
A commonly used metric for a ‘civil war’ used by scholars and the UN is one thousand victims per year killed in political violence. If the Iraq Coalition Casualty Count civilian death figures are taken as a basis, violence in Iraq surpassed the ‘civil war’ criterion in the first six months of 2009. Whether characterized as a ‘civil war,’ ‘low intensity conflict,’ or the remnants of radical forces trying to resurrect sectarian antagonism, the nomenclature is not important. What is significant is that sectarian violence remains a fact of daily life in Iraq, despite the military achievements of the 2007 ‘surge.’
No doubt Obama’s left-wing supporters* will be quick to point out that horrific though the bombings may have been, in the larger scheme of things they will be but a bump in the road to everlasting peace. I just wish you guys would apply the same carefree logic to Afghanistan.
[* Full disclosure: I once thought I was one of them.]
That’s because AMERICA don’t want the Iraq government to take over & kick them out of Iraq.
America could easily say to the Iraq government to start putting 2.1 meter check points around all areas near gov buildings & so on. That will 100% stop all mass truck bomb attack.
If the check points in some areas around targets are only like 1.9m high. The check point police could not let them past, even if they wanted too.
They could also start to put cameras at all check points. Then the check points will have a camera showing the check point troops looking at the cars 24 / 7. If a attack happens, they will round it down to the check points in that area that the attack took place. Then they would look at the cameras to see who let that car past the check point.
Easy too do. If the check point police let anyone past. They will 100% be seen no matter what. So if they do let people past, it’s a death sentence 100%.
As well as that. All check points around government building & so on. Will have sniffer dogs. If a car is filled full of explosives . A sniffer dog standing 8 meters away would 100% smell it.
If America wanted to stop all them attacks from happening. They 100% could.
They could even go as far as using contract workers to man all check points around government buildings & markets & all of them limited targets that could kill 200 people & wound 800 people.
I am saying its really is easy to do. America wants to stay in Iraq for a very long time. That is very clear.
I am starting to fill that its going to stab them in there back. All the Iraq people my turn on America soon.
So all them son’s of Iraq / everyone, will give up.
America could easily make them sign a document stating that there troops will be in Iraq for the next 25 years to over see people coming & going from government. that’s what must be done asap.
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ps. it is the shitest blog i have ever seen. give up now?.
i red a message for some one that sent it to you, “he said it all”. he said it to you. all you do is right ball shit & he could under stand why you could not right anything on one of your blogs.. it sums it up & your blog. SHIT full fuckin stop dick breath.
Sorry mate, but America has won no matter what you say or what you wont. They will always win, that’s why they are there & you are here.
You can right & hope that they lose, but they will WIN & kill ALL OF THEM & YOU. America will win any war.
All of your blogs say leave Afghanistan / Iraq. sorry mate, they have one & will win & kill off people like you.
NO you don’t want them to win. to bad mate, get the fuck over it.
all people that don’t GET IN LINE WITH THE WEST / America, will die & America like god, will win. death do part mother fucker.