Reply By: Island Dog Posted: Tuesday, August 14, 2007
YES The SURGE is WORKING:
Ah yes, once again gene celebrates a car bombing. If you take a peek around gene, you will see even liberals are agreeing the surge is working. Of course you already decided we have lost, so nothing matters to you anyway.
You are an A**. I want to END the killing of our troops in that useless war. The facts on the GROUND have DECIDED the Surge is a failure. It was intended to give the Iraqi Government the time to deal with the political issues which is NOT taking place. The violence in the areas where we have sent more troops is less but the violence has just moved to areas where there was NO fighting before the Surge. Yesterday was the WORST day of the WAR!!!!! Look at the results-- 9 Americans dead. 215 Iraqi dead and another 200 injured. A major bridge in Baghdad destroyed. This is a NEVER ENDING mistake that we must end!
4 Suicide Bombings Kill 200 in Iraq
By KIM GAMEL (Associated Press Writer)
From Associated Press
August 15, 2007 7:03 AM EDT
BAGHDAD - Rescuers dug through the muddy wreckage of collapsed clay houses in northwest Iraq on Wednesday, uncovering victims of four suicide bombings that Iraqi officials said killed at least 200 people in one of the worst attacks of the war.The victims were members of a small Kurdish sect - the Yazidis - sometimes attacked by Muslim extremists who consider them infidels.
Four suicide truck bombers struck nearly simultaneously on Tuesday, killing more people than any other concerted attack since Nov. 23, when 215 people were killed by mortar fire and five car bombs in Baghdad's Shiite Muslim enclave of Sadr City.
It was most vicious attack yet against the Yazidis, an ancient religious community in the region. Some 300 people were wounded in the blasts, said Dakhil Qassim, the mayor of the nearby town of Sinjar.
Qassim said the four trucks approached the town of Qahataniya, 75 miles west of Mosul, Iraq's third-largest city, from dirt roads and all exploded within minutes of each other. He said the casualty tolls were expected to rise.