Long live the Surge!
BAGHDAD— A suicide bomber driving a truck with explosives hidden under bricks destroyed a police station yesterday in Baghdad — the largest in a series of insurgent strikes against the American-led security crackdown. At least 47 people died in the attacks, including 20 at the police station. […]
In all, at least 74 people were killed or found dead in Iraq yesterday, making it the seventh-deadliest day since U.S. and Iraqi forces launched the security operation Feb. 14, according to an Associated Press tally. That included at least 25 bullet-riddled bodies — 11 found in Baghdad, six pulled from the Tigris River south of the capital and eight in the Anbar city of Fallujah.
The U.S. military also announced the deaths of two more U.S. soldiers on Friday — one killed by a roadside bomb while on a foot patrol south of Baghdad and another who died in fighting in the Sunni insurgent stronghold of Anbar province.
Northwest of the capital, a man wearing an explosives belt blew himself up outside a pastry shop in a central market area in Tal Afar, killing at least 10 people and wounding three, just over a year after President Bush declared that city was an example of progress made in bringing security to Iraq.
A man driving an explosives-laden truck carrying boxes of new shoes also blew himself up near a Shiite mosque in Haswa, 30 miles south of Baghdad, killing at least 11 people and wounding 45, police said.
Two suicide car bombers also struck a police station in Qaim, near the Syrian border and about 200 miles west of Baghdad. At least six people — five policemen and a woman — were killed and 19 wounded in that attack.
The Voices of Iraq news agency said three suicide car bombers hit three police stations in the Qaim area, killing at least 20 and wounding 30.
I imagine the Democrats in Congress are to blame for all this. They just emboldened the terrorists, after all, with their approval of a bill that sets an unenforceable deadline for withdrawing combat forces from Iraq by September 2008. You know, the bill Bush plans to veto should that horrible, treasonous insult to our troops language remain when the supplemental bill to fund the Iraq war finally reaches his desk? I can’t think of anything Bush could have done to spark this violence — can you?
