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Tuesday, March 20, 2012 7:05 AM
NIKI2
Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...
Quote:A spate of car bombings rocked Iraq on Tuesday, the ninth anniversary of the U.S. invasion and days before the nation hosts a meeting of Arab leaders. The violence left at least 43 people dead and 206 wounded, officials said. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the blasts that one senior Interior Ministry official described as "coordinated" and blamed on al Qaeda in Iraq. The official, who did not want to be named because he's not authorized to speak to the media, said the attacks were meant to send a message that the militant group -- despite gains made by Iraqi security forces -- is still able to carry out daily attacks. Attacks took place in Baghdad, Kirkuk, Karbala, Hilla, Tikrit, Baiji, Ramadi, Mosul, Falluja, Diyala province, Salaheddin province, Samarra and Mahmoudiya. Some of them targeted police or government facilities. In central Falluja, a pregnant woman was killed and her 6-year-old child wounded by bombs insurgents planted around a house belonging to a police officer, police in the city said. In Tikrit, a car bombing outside a school wounded four teachers. The attack in Hilla targeted a juvenile detention center; two attacks in Karbala targeted police stations; an army convoy was attacked in Ramadi; and a parked car exploded in front of the Foreign Ministry in Baghdad, officials said. The highest death tolls came from a series of car bomb attacks in Kirkuk, Baghdad and Karbala that killed 11 people in each city. The violence is the worst since February 23, when 44 people were killed and more than 200 were wounded in a string of attacks. Iraqi officials have expressed concern that the continuing violence could cast a shadow as the country prepares to host the next Arab League summit on March 29. The attacks on Tuesday come nine years to the day since a U.S.-led army invaded Iraq on March 20, 2003, toppling longtime dictator Saddam Hussein. The United States argued Hussein's regime had been harboring forbidden stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons, long-range missiles and a nuclear weapons program. Inspectors later found that Baghdad had attempted to conceal some weapons-related research from the international community, but that Iraq had been effectively disarmed under U.N. sanctions in the 1990s. The invasion swiftly toppled Hussein, who was later executed for the massacre of Shiite villagers following an assassination attempt in the 1980s. But years of bloodshed followed the invasion as an insurgency led by Hussein's allies took root, followed by sectarian warfare between Iraq's Shiite majority and its Sunni minority. Nearly 4,500 Americans and 300-plus allied troops were killed before the last American troops left in December, while estimates of the Iraqi toll run well above 100,000. http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/20/world/meast/iraq-violence/index.html
Tuesday, March 20, 2012 9:15 AM
AURAPTOR
America loves a winner!
Tuesday, March 20, 2012 9:23 AM
HERO
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: That you feel giddy in the deaths of so many , or feel the need to besmirch the duty of our military...
Tuesday, March 20, 2012 1:17 PM
KWICKO
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: The mission of the Abe Lincoln was , in fact, accomplished. That you feel giddy in the deaths of so many , or feel the need to besmirch the duty of our military, is truly despicable.
Tuesday, March 20, 2012 1:22 PM
Tuesday, March 20, 2012 1:25 PM
RIONAEIRE
Beir bua agus beannacht
Tuesday, March 20, 2012 1:32 PM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: You literally don't know what in the hell you're talking about, Kwickie. Par for the course.
Tuesday, March 20, 2012 1:41 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Kwicko: Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: You literally don't know what in the hell you're talking about, Kwickie. Par for the course. "First, the standard insult , of anyone who doesn't agree, as being less intelligent, uninformed, or otherwise too unenlightened..." Who said that?
Tuesday, March 20, 2012 1:56 PM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Quote:Originally posted by Kwicko: Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: You literally don't know what in the hell you're talking about, Kwickie. Par for the course. "First, the standard insult , of anyone who doesn't agree, as being less intelligent, uninformed, or otherwise too unenlightened..." Who said that? I did, and you know I did. Or did you forget already ? Point of fact, the Abe Lincoln had a specific mission, for which it absolutely did complete. You claiming otherwise, is nothing short of sheer ignorance.
Tuesday, March 20, 2012 1:58 PM
MAL4PREZ
Tuesday, March 20, 2012 3:50 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Kwicko: First, the standard insult , of anyone who doesn't agree, as being less intelligent, uninformed, or otherwise too unenlightened...
Quote: Wasn't he taking a week off for getting caught name-calling? Is the week over already? Damn. Some of would have taken the time out as an opportunity to rethink their behavior. I am not surprised that this one did none of that.
Tuesday, March 20, 2012 4:40 PM
GEEZER
Keep the Shiny side up
Quote:Originally posted by RionaEire: Crap. :( It seems like those countries are just always going to be like that and there's nothing we or they can really do to fix it.
Tuesday, March 20, 2012 4:49 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Geezer: Quote:Originally posted by RionaEire: Crap. :( It seems like those countries are just always going to be like that and there's nothing we or they can really do to fix it. Unfortunately, this seems to be the case. Yet folks are still wanting us to "do something" about Syria, Sudan, Uganda, etc.
Wednesday, March 21, 2012 7:02 AM
Wednesday, March 21, 2012 7:58 AM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: John Murtha lied, and falsely accused US soldiers of crimes they did not commit. He all but stabbed our boys in the back. Shame on him still.
Wednesday, March 21, 2012 12:28 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Hero: But he did get that airport that nobody uses in the stimulas plan...I hear that after millions of dollars refurbishing it they can now boast over ten passangers/day. H "Hero. I have come to respect you." "I am forced to agree with Hero here."- Chrisisall, 2009. "I agree with Hero." Niki2, 2011.
Wednesday, March 21, 2012 12:40 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Niki2: Kony 2012 has no relevance whatsoever; it's offered as a "neener neener" against...what, someone's effort to stop the atrocities of Kony? More likely some effort to...actually, I don't know WHAT. It has nothing to do with the thread, and if it's an effort to deride someone who is trying to bring to the attention of the world horrors happening, who for one reason or another lost control, it's pretty ridiculous and in essence could be seen as being in FAVOR of the atrocities...? It certainly has nothing to do with potential American involvement in the situation, given it's very far down the list of things we're involved in or could potentially BE involved in, so it can't be that...
Quote: Originally posted by Geezer: Quote: Originally posted by RionaEire: Crap. :( It seems like those countries are just always going to be like that and there's nothing we or they can really do to fix it. Unfortunately, this seems to be the case. Yet folks are still wanting us to "do something" about Syria, Sudan, Uganda, etc.
Quote: Originally posted by RionaEire: Crap. :( It seems like those countries are just always going to be like that and there's nothing we or they can really do to fix it.
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