Another horrific day for Iraqis.
Two car bombs targeting day laborers looking for work exploded within seconds of each other Tuesday on a main square in central Baghdad, killing at least 63 people and wounding scores, the government said.
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, a member of Iraq’s Shiite majority, condemned the attack and blamed it on Sunni extremists and supporters of Saddam Hussein.
Perhaps al-Maliki should stop blaming others, and start taking responsibility for the chaos ruling the country he is supposed to lead.
In the northern city of Mosul, a television cameraman working for The Associated Press was shot to death by insurgents while covering clashes — the third AP employee killed in the Iraq war.
The coordinated attack in Baghdad’s Tayaran Square involved a suicide attacker who drove up to the day laborers pretending to want to hire them, then set off his explosives as they got into his minibus, Lt. Bilal Ali said. At virtually the same time — 7 a.m. — a bomb exploded in a car parked some 30 yards away.
More at Daily Kos and All Spin Zone:
There is no civil war. It is just general chaos. Of course, whether there is a civil war or not, there’s a tremendous amount of carnage caused by the actions of the Bush Administration. Arguing over the “civil warâ€? meme is arguing over semantics, and parsing the meanings embedding in words and cultural contexts (engaging in a semantic debate) seems a bit distasteful to me lately. One thing cannot be debated: Bush policies led us to these deaths, this daily terror in Iraq. If the man had a conscience he would be waking screaming every night and asking God for mercy.
For the record, perhaps we should call it a reasonably limited civil war.
And that’s the best I can do these days.
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