Oh, that war. I thought it was long over months ago.
At least 18 people have been killed in two rush-hour bomb attacks in Baghdad.
Security officials say at least 13 people died when a roadside bomb blew up a minibus carrying government employees in eastern Baghdad.
In a separate incident, a female suicide bomber blew herself up outside the city’s heavily guarded Green Zone, killing five people, police said.
There has been one consistent factor in all the deaths the Iraqis have endured over the years: US involvement in their affairs. From our support of Saddam Hussein during the Reagan era, to the Gulf War in 1991 brought on by failed diplomacy and mixed signals sent to our “ally,” to Dubya’s invasion and occupation of Iraq to halt all those mysteriously nonexistent WMD programs, the United States, in one form or another has been a contributing factor to the death of millions of Iraqis. But not to worry. We’re still the good guys who brought peace, freedom and democracy to the Middle East. At least that’s what Fox News tells me, and when have they ever been wrong?
Everything else is merely collateral damage.