21 people ambushed, killed in same market where McCain did some strolling and said that it was safe

[ck4829]

A newborn baby was one of at least 14 children and adults killed when a suicide bomber detonated a lorry laden with explosives close to a primary school in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk yesterday.

The latest massacre of Iraqi children came as 21 Shia market workers were ambushed, bound and shot dead north of the capital. The victims came from the Baghdad market visited the previous day by John McCain, the US presidential candidate, who said that an American security plan in the capital was starting to show signs of progress.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article1604931.ece

[alcibiades_mystery]

1. Summertime (in Indiana)...and the living is easy...

:eyes:

[Roland99]

2. I'd be willing to bet my life that was done intentionally to prove a point

The point being that the gov't of Iraq has practically no control over Iraq and that our troops' presence there is merely gaining more and more money for The Beast and its handlers.

[Justice]

4. that was my immediate thought as well.

[librechik]

6. absolutely--McCain has blood on his hands

and I'm sure he got the message.

[acmavm]

10. You're right on that one.

[Az_lefty]

17. these phony chicken-hawks can't do anything without getting people killed!

I'm so glad the story ties this to McCain's visit.
:grr:

[LaurenG]

3. Of course McCain was "safe" he had 100 troops protecting him, and

a black-hawk and you know they cleared it before he went in. Disinformation is the rights middle name.

[liberal N proud]

5. Too bad they couldn't afford the same security as a United States Senator

This should be front page news and all over the talking heads shows. But I doubt it will get a mention on the All Bush Channel or Crappy News Network.

[Ganja Ninja]

7. It was safe until he went there for his photo op.

Well safe is a relative term in Iraq. It had been bombed twice before but I'm sure that this attack was in response to the McCain photo op.

[izzie]

8. I read that they even blocked the streets off.

Makes one think of Bush and his trips over seas. I read in Germany that the Germans had to take the traffic on the rivers down while he was near the town the river was in. It is sort if funny in a sad way. I had a friend who had her picture taken with Al Gore right in the Middle of Congress Sq. in Portsmouth NH with one big mob of people. Now no one is safe if the are an Am. any place.

[C_U_L8R]

9. McCain's vanity made a target of that market

what an ignoramus

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

11. More blood on McCain's and Graham's filthy hands. Keith Olbermann interviewed Larry Johnson

yesterday, who said that McCain probaby made that market a target, especially for the sellers who cooperated with McCain and Graham. Considering them collaboraters. After the interview, Keith reported this incident. I don't think Johnson was aware that it had already happened.

[SCDem]

12. To think that a newborn had to die because of a photo op

We have no idea of the pain and suffering or generational devestation we are causing.

I weep for every mother and father in Iraq.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

13. And of course, this isn't being reported here (except for a brief mention by KO. nt

[crikkett]

14. recommended - at least some of the merchants got to speak their minds

what a travesty. I wonder if the girl who just left, Bush's top Iraq strategist, was the gal who whipped this fiasco up.

[soothsayer]

15. they prolly forgot their kevlar, snipers, attack copters, gunships,

and battalions of soldiers.

[flyarm]

16. i just called both the murderers offices in DC and asked who paid for their photo

opp..and said it was the soldiers who paid for their dumb assed photo opp and the people of Iraq who paid for their blood photo opp..and that a newborn Iraqi baby paid for their filthy blood photo opp..( i just read this story to the person who a
answered the phones in their offices)

i was furious..i said those rugs of Lindsey's are blood soaked..and i hope he sees a dead baby everytime he looks at those rugs...

and i was demanding answers to who paid for this campaign photo opp ..taxpayers i yelled...and i said i want it paid back immeditely by McCains campaign!!

I said these pigs disgust me and make me sick to my stomach!!

Please get onthe phones and call their offices ..let them know how pissed you are!! and rightly so!!..someone must let them know how pissed you are..nd someone needs to speak up for our soldiers and the innocent people of Iraq!!

where is our outrage??

i am soo damned pissed i could spit wooden nickles!


fly

[tex-wyo-dem]

18. So, dozens of our soldiers are put in harms way during the market walk-through...

and 21 market workers are abducted and brutally shot to death as a result of...A FUCKING PHOTO-OP!?!

McCain just needs to stay home and STFU!

[kiteinthewind]

19. McCain is a freaking whore. nt

:mad:

[leftofthedial]

20. Just like Indiana

[LSK]

21. K&R

:grr: