68 killed in Iraqi car bombing

[Morgeruat]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/...ain/index.html

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- At least 68 Iraqis have been killed and more than 56 wounded in a suicide bombing at a marketplace near a police station in a day of violence around Baghdad, officials said.

Police recruits were waiting in line outside the station in the heart of the city of Baquba Wednesday when a Toyota mini bus exploded at around 9:40 a.m. (0540 GMT).

Twenty-one passengers on board a bus passing by were all killed when the mini bus blew up, said Sa'ad al-Amalii, the director general of the Health Ministry.

Officials said they expect the toll in the to rise in what has been described as the deadliest single bombing since the handover of sovereignty in late June.

One local health official put the number of wounded at 70.

[Timber Loftis]

Winning the Peace! [img]graemlins/thumbsup.gif[/img]

Just can't wait til those terrorists get tired of the easy pickin's in Iraq and decide to come stateside to visit their horrors upon us. Allah akbar, all.

[Chewbacca]

A recent entry in my journal:


I'm officially aware that I have grown de-sensitized to the continuing and unabatted violence in Iraq. I realize that I actually expect news like this now from Iraq where I once hoped (and prayed) it would dimish.

Once I would feel sad, angry, and concerned upon hearing such news but now I feel an eerie dead emptiness inside. The road to hell is paved with good intentions and the 15 months I have walked further and further down that road paved with the supposed good intentions of folks in power who profess to be good. I walk down this road not as a supporter of the war actions, but as a witness and a voice of dissent.

Thank God for this wake-up call. I have not yet reached the end of my own apathy road, I can still turn around.

My sadness returns as I realize that so many have reached the end of another road in the last 15 months, and in the long dirtnap of death they do not have the same recourse to walk the other way that I do.

My anger returns as I realize that this path was one that could have been totally avoided. An unneccessary waste of lives is a righteous cause to be angry about.

My concern returns, those responsbile for creating this fiasco seem unwilling to concede failure and take responsibility for their actions. They still act proud, pass the buck, and ask for trust in their judgement. Though history shows they should not be trusted.

I am not dead yet on the inside but I feel like I have had a near-miss.

[promethius9594]

chewbacca, you know as well as i that history shows nothing yet in this matter. if this iraq 'fiasco' comes off as a success bush will go down in history as a champion of democracy and therefore a great president. the caption will read: "despite strong party oposition, bush acted to overthrow the tyrant saddam and free his people so that they could share the same basic human rights as americans." needless to say, if iraq falls to terrorism, it won't go so well for bush.

what the media consistantly FAILS to report, however, are the vast changes in iraq. the people have culture and are happy. approval of their own government as opposed to being ruled by the US is good. they appreciate being able to listen to what music they choose, and go to plays. the death toll from these terrorist attacks is probably no higher than the people who were executed on saddams whims.

[Morgeruat]

Actually they could go to plays before, Saddam was quite the opera writer, all of them of course exemplified him, and his friends

[Khazadman Risen]

Yes Chewy, the Iraqis wew better off living in a land where women lived in constant fear of being plucked off the streets and raped. And if they resisted they would face a death at the hands of some torturer. A land where you could have your tongue ripped out in public for speaking your opinion, or fed to a plastic shredder. Yeah, those were the good old days, huh?

[Illumina Drathiran'ar]

Originally posted by Khazadman Risen: Yes Chewy, the Iraqis wew better off living in a land where women lived in constant fear of being plucked off the streets and raped.

I thought women are more likely to be raped in America than anywhere else in the world.

[Morgeruat]

In America the woman isn't automatically considered 50%, or more, guilty in any violent sexual attack she's a victim of as is commonly the case in most of the middle east. nor is there a gov't coverup protecting any male government official who engages in such activities, they may have friends who can pull strings, but they can't get off the hook completely. As an example, a cop here in Carlisle got convicted of raping truck-stop hookers a couple of weeks ago.

[Ronn_Bman]

Originally posted by Illumina Drathiran'ar: I thought women are more likely to be raped in America than anywhere else in the world.

Why would you think that? A quick Google shows we're 9th on the list with both Canada and Australia ranking higher. Now 9th out of 65 certainly isn't a statistic to be proud of but women are not more likely to be raped in America than anywhere else in the world. You must have gotten some bad propaganda.

Country Description Amount

1. South Africa 1.23 per 1000 people
2. Seychelles 0.79 per 1000 people
3. Australia 0.79 per 1000 people
4. Montserrat 0.77 per 1000 people
5. Canada 0.74 per 1000 people
6. Jamaica 0.48 per 1000 people
7. Zimbabwe 0.44 per 1000 people
8. Dominica 0.34 per 1000 people
9. United States 0.30 per 1000 people
10. Iceland 0.25 per 1000 people
11. Papua New Guinea 0.24 per 1000 people
12. New Zealand 0.21 per 1000 people
13. United Kingdom 0.14 per 1000 people
14. Spain 0.14 per 1000 people
15. France 0.14 per 1000 people
16. Korea, South 0.12 per 1000 people
17. Mexico 0.12 per 1000 people
18. Norway 0.12 per 1000 people
19. Costa Rica 0.12 per 1000 people
20. Venezuela 0.11 per 1000 people
21. Finland 0.11 per 1000 people
22. Netherlands 0.10 per 1000 people
23. Denmark 0.09 per 1000 people
24. Germany 0.09 per 1000 people
25. Chile

26. Bulgaria 0.07 per 1000 people
27. Kyrgyzstan 0.06 per 1000 people
28. Thailand 0.06 per 1000 people
29. Poland 0.06 per 1000 people
30. Sri Lanka 0.06 per 1000 people
31. Hungary 0.05 per 1000 people
32. Ireland 0.05 per 1000 people
33. Switzerland 0.05 per 1000 people
34. Malaysia 0.05 per 1000 people
35. Estonia 0.05 per 1000 people
36. Belarus 0.05 per 1000 people
37. Uruguay 0.05 per 1000 people
38. Lithuania 0.05 per 1000 people
39. Romania 0.04 per 1000 people
40. Czech Republic 0.04 per 1000 people
41. Russia 0.04 per 1000 people
42. Moldova 0.04 per 1000 people
43. Colombia 0.04 per 1000 people
44. Slovenia 0.04 per 1000 people
45. Latvia 0.04 per 1000 people
46. Italy 0.04 per 1000 people
47. Portugal 0.03 per 1000 people
48. Tunisia 0.03 per 1000 people
49. Zambia 0.02 per 1000 people
50. Ukraine 0.02 per 1000 people

51. Slovakia 0.02 per 1000 people
52. Mauritius 0.02 per 1000 people
53. Turkey 0.01 per 1000 people
54. Japan 0.01 per 1000 people
55. India 0.01 per 1000 people
56. Qatar 0.01 per 1000 people
57. Hong Kong 0.01 per 1000 people
58. Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of 0.01 per 1000 people
59. Greece 0.01 per 1000 people
60. Georgia 0.00 per 1000 people
61. Armenia 0.00 per 1000 people
62. Indonesia 0.00 per 1000 people
63. Yemen 0.00 per 1000 people
64. Azerbaijan 0.00 per 1000 people
65. Saudi Arabia 0.00 per 1000 people

[ 07-29-2004, 01:49 PM: Message edited by: Ronn_Bman ]