Very tired:
BAGHDAD (AFP) – Insurgent attacks killed six more US troops, the military said on Sunday, as security forces braced for more chemical attacks after dirty bombs left two policemen dead and 350 civilians sick.
Almost exactly four years after the invasion of Iraq, American casualties are still mounting as US and Iraqi forces battle to quell the insurgent and sectarian violence gripping the country.
And this is just gut churning. I guess we finally found the WMD:
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Insurgents in western Iraq set off three chlorine gas car bombs, U.S. forces said on Saturday, weeks after two similar attacks sparked fears of a new campaign to use unconventional weapons in Iraq.
The Friday attacks came a month into a major U.S.-Iraqi security crackdown in Baghdad aimed at stemming sectarian violence that threatens to pitch Iraq into outright civil war. […]
Chlorine gas was widely used in World War One but its use in insurgent attacks in Iraq has particular resonance there. Saddam Hussein attacked Kurdish areas with chemical weapons in the 1980s during the Iran-Iraq war.
The U.S. military said two suicide bombers driving dump trucks carrying chlorine made 350 people ill near the town of Falluja on Friday, and a smaller car bomb near Ramadi also released chlorine, though there were few casualties.[…]
Two bombs with chlorine killed eight people earlier this year. It causes severe burns when inhaled and can cause death.
Like I said, I am very, very tired. And sick. And we have at least another 2 years of this mindless slaughter to go.
