November off to bloody start in Iraq

[superconnected]

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A blood-drenched October has passed into a violent early November as a motorcycle rigged with explosives ripped through a crowded Shiite market in Sadr City on Thursday and suspected Sunni insurgent gunmen killed a Shiite dean of Baghdad University.

The attacks showed no signs of abating after at least 1,272 Iraqis were killed in the first full month of autumn and the 43rd month of the U.S. bid to quell violence and build democracy in Iraq, according to an Associated Press count. The figure is a minimum since many deaths go unreported, but the total is higher than any other month since the AP began keeping track in May 2005.

AP statistics also showed nearly twice as many Iraqi security forces died last month as U.S. forces — 194 versus 106. The Interior Ministry said at least 119 Iraqi policemen were killed.

With shootings, bombings and abductions tearing apart Iraq three years after the U.S.-led invasion, the war in Iraq is the top issue for voters before next week's U.S. congressional elections.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061102/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_061102165129

[Eugene]

1. But, but Tony Snowjob just told us violence in Iraq went way down.

You mean his statement wasn't true? :eyes:

[DemoTex]

7. Tony Snow doesn't know shit from Shinola.

Shit:


Shinola:



http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/114000.html

[Warren Stupidity]

2. 41 Months after Pearl Harbor

Allied forces had defeated Hitler's 3rd Reich. 44 months after Pearl Harbor the Japanese surrendered, ending WWII.

43 months after we toppled the has been two bit dictator of Iraq, no threat to anyone except other Iraqis, our grand Coalition of the Billing remains bogged down in an unwinnable and criminal war of aggression and occupation against the people of Iraq.

[saigon68]

6. And war criminal thugs are killing thousands of children

In Cheney's war to ethnically cleanse the islamics

[superconnected]

8. Good post!

[tblue]

3. But R*mmy stays no matter what. WTF?

[OhioChick]

4. But, but

I thought the insurgency was in it's last throes? :sarcasm:

[bemildred]

5. Three Soldiers killed by roadside bomb

BAGHDAD – Three Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldiers died at approximately 2:15 p.m. Thursday when the vehicle they were riding in was struck by an improvised-explosive device in eastern Baghdad.

The names of the Soldiers are being withheld pending notification of next of kin.

http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6985&Itemid=21

[Quantess]

9. What do you think of this link?

http://www.iraqbodycount.org/

[saigon68]

10. nice link