Sunday, April 22, 2007
Thought for the day
As we read the daily reports of violence, with their attendant body counts, from Iraq, I was stirred by a memory from years past. First, the count.
Gunmen shot and killed 23 members of an ancient religious sect in northern Iraq on Sunday after stopping their bus and separating out followers of other faiths, while at least 20 people were killed in car bombings in the capital...Now think back to the beginning of this fiasco and all the days since then. In all that time Our Dear Embattled Leader, who seems to have made it his crusade to kill as many troops and Iraqis as possible, has never, ever, told the American people the real reason he started this disaster.
..Police said 13 people died - five policemen and eight civilians. The wounded included 46 policemen and 36 civilians.
Elsewhere in Baghdad, a parked car bomb exploded in the Sadiyah neighborhood, killing seven civilians and wounding 42, police said. A roadside bomb then struck a police patrol coming to check on the blast, killing one officer and wounding two others.
In all, at least 72 people were killed or found dead in Iraq on Sunday, including 24 bullet-riddled bodies and two brothers who were shot to death in the volatile city of Fallujah, a day after the chairman of the city's council was assassinated.
The U.S. military also reported the deaths of three soldiers. Two were killed in attacks in Baghdad on Saturday, while the third died from an unidentified non-combat cause that was still under investigation, the military said.
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