Sunday, April 15, 2007
The sweet smell of success in Iraq.
From McClatchy comes this indicator of the success in the Bagdhad surge.
Two months into the U.S.-led Baghdad Security Plan, at least 289 people were killed and injured across Iraq on Saturday, including 36 dead in a car bomb attack in the holy Shiite city of Karbala. The carnage of a crowd teeming with women and children set off an angry mob of hundreds against the governor and police.The failure of Our Dear Embattled Leader's fiasco is writ large every day in Iraq but don't you dare tell him how to fail. He is a Harvard MBA, he knows how to fail with the best of them. And all the people dying for his Glory, they just didn't know the right people.
The morning bombing outside a bus station and marketplace ripped through vendor stands near a Shiite shrine where the grandson of the prophet Mohammed is buried.
Bodies littered the street and body parts were found as far as 160 yards from the site of the explosion. Three buses of passengers were charred and storefronts lay in shambles.
At least 167 people were injured in the bombing, but the death toll was expected to increase because of still-unidentified bodies and serious injuries, said Saleem Kadhim, spokesman for the Karbala health directorate.
As police and ambulances approached to carry away victims, angry residents shot at them, witnesses said. The police responded, firing bullets into the air to dissipate the angry crowd. As the bullets rained down, a child and elderly man were killed, witnesses said.
Karim Hussein, 43, wept as he held his two dead sons. "Death to the governor," he shouted. "I can't understand. How did a car bomb get here to kill these people?"
An old man combed through the rubble searching for his wife.
"I can't find her," he cried. "I can't find her."
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