Sorry folks, but it’s still a mirage to everyone but neocon dead enders like Joe Lieberman and his pit bull friend Johnny POW! McCain:
Atleast 45 people were killed and 59 injured on Tuesday in attacks, including a bloody suicide and car bomb attack in Iraq’s restive Diyala province, in some of the worst violence the country has witnessed in recent months.
A simultaneous suicide and bomb attack in Diyala province killed at least 35 people. Around 47 people were injured in the attack. […]
Also in Diyala, four members members of the same family were killed and a fifth was injured when a bomb exploded near their car in Balad Rus town, 45 km southwest of the provincial capital Baquba.
But hey, don’t forget McCain was right about the “Surge” and Obama was wrong, wrong, wrong. At least that’s what all the talking heads on CNN, MsNBC, CBS, ABC and FOX tell me, and why would they have a reason to lie?
that’s nothing. you should visit Philadephia.
“some of the worst violence the country has witnessed in recent months.“
I guess whatever the U.S. troops do in Iraq does not qualify as violence – you know, like bombing entire neighborhoods to rubble. I guess dropping bombs on densely populated urban districts – you know, like Sadr City – is not violence as long as the Americans do it. I guess “lighting up” cars filled with families, or running over children who happen to get in the way of your vehicles, or breaking down people’s home doors in the middle of the night and rampaging through their houses, trashing the place, and manhandling the residents is not violence as long as Americans do it.
How many Americans are completely unaware of how many bombing missions the United States performs every single day?
Or what about the 3rd infantry division punishing the residents of a village in Diyala for allegedly harbouring resistance fighters – aka “insurgents” (sic) – by burning their dwellings and date trees to the ground. And this is by far not the only time the Americans have used this kind of collective punishment. In fact, they have used this tactic, which they took directly out of the Israeli playbook, and which does not work, starting the first months of the occupation.
Make no mistake, by far the worst perpetrator of violence in Iraq is the U.S. military. Oh, but I guess it’s only violence if someone else does it.