surge update - marred celebration

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reckon that would 'mar' your celebration

Deadly Bombing Mars Iraqi Celebration

BAGHDAD — As jubilant Iraqi soldiers celebrated Army Day by dancing and chanting anti-insurgent slogans inside a downtown office building here on Sunday, a suicide bomber tried to shove his way through the gate.

When four Iraqi soldiers moved to block the bomber from entering, he detonated his explosive vest, killing at least the four soldiers and wounding at least six people, according to the Iraqi police and military officials. There were differing accounts of the death toll, with some saying as many as 11 had been killed, but they could not be confirmed.

“The suicide bomber was very young,” said an Iraqi police officer who declined to be identified because he was not allowed to speak to the news media. “We found his severed head, and we found a Yemeni identification card near the rest of his body.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/07/world/middleeast/07iraq.html?_r=1&hp=&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print

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1. What exactly are they celebrating? Iraqis are selling their children.

http://www.scopical.com.au/articles/News/World/1922/Desperate_Iraqis_resort_to_selling_their_children

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2. Surge Is Working???

Well, the controlled reich wing news media thinks so but is it true?

The real reason why the death and casualty counts are down in Iraq is because three million people have fled from the country. Not only has the population decreased, it has segregated itself as Sunni and Shiia have moved apart. As people segregate themselves, this allows for fewer opportunities for sectarian violence.

If anything, the segregation and refugee problem are proof that Bush's war and surge are NOT working!