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At Least 50 Killed in Iraq Bomb Attacks

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Posted on Aug 25, 2010
bbc.co.uk

American combat forces might be exiting Iraq, but a wave of deadly violence around the country Wednesday served as a grim reminder that war is likely to be a daily reality for Iraqis for a long time to come.  —KA

BBC:

At least 50 people have been killed in a series of apparently co-ordinated bomb attacks across Iraq.

The deadliest killed 19 people in the southern city of Kut. Several blasts hit Baghdad, including a suicide bombing in which 15 died.

There were also attacks in other major cities. Officials blame al-Qaeda.

Correspondents say the violence highlights fears about the stability of Iraq ahead of the formal end of US combat operations next week.

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By samosamo, August 26, 2010 at 7:38 pm Link to this comment

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Got to keep faking the evidence so’s to keep the new american
army, the mercenaries, busy guarding all those permanent
military bases and the corporate head quarters, currently called
the u.s. embassy enclave, which are not supposed to be
mentioned in any news. So what the u.s. gets from the msm to
inform their dumbstream garden is to just keep rolling out the
body counts which for the most part does not have americans in
them, keeps that msm mumbo jumbo clean for those
dumbstreamers keep score on the body counts.

Thanks o, another one of your ‘changes to believe in’ or
whatever kind of crappy way you decide to ‘rhetoricize’ it, you
know, alter the words to make every thing look ‘promising’.

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By felicity, August 26, 2010 at 8:42 am Link to this comment

Sunnis (the have’s) and Shias (the have-nots) have been
at each other’s throats for about 1,400 years.  Enter
the American juggernaut (in 2003), the insolent conceit
of the self-proclaimed most powerful nation in the
entire history of the world to ‘fix’ it (by 2010.)

Of course we didn’t ‘fix’ it.  Unless we’re idiots
thinking that we could, and that’s a real possibility,
we invaded to take out Saddam who was floating the
rumor that he intended to trade ‘his’ oil in other than
dollars.  Now the invasion and occupation makes sense.

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By poolman, August 26, 2010 at 12:03 am Link to this comment

Likely it is see eye aye, if they are blaming Al Qaeda.  Gotta keep that terror threat up, yessiree.  They must have thrown me in moderation for using the acronym. Sorry if it double posts…

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By poolman, August 25, 2010 at 11:53 pm Link to this comment

If they’re blamin’ Al Qaeda, likely it’s just the CIA doing what it does - stirrin’ the pot, keepin’ the terror threat going.

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By PatrickHenry, August 25, 2010 at 5:35 pm Link to this comment

The U.S. being there only makes matters worse and makes our people targets.

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By Sodium-Na, August 25, 2010 at 4:42 pm Link to this comment

Ofersince72,

I feel that I must tell you that I have really enjoyed the rhythm in your poetry. Excelent.

KEEP IT UP…...

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By ofersince72, August 25, 2010 at 2:13 pm Link to this comment

Fifty more bodies
  Americans don’t care
  they don’t even care
  about their children’s welfare

  They don’t have to see
  What their taxis are buyin
  or how many bodies
  our military is fryin

  Just real pretty talk
  from the media whores
  but it won’t long before
  they’re bangin on our doors

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