4 Bombings Kill 157 People in Baghdad

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BAGHDAD (AP) -- Four large bombs exploded in mostly Shiite areas of Baghdad on Wednesday, killing at least 157 people and wounding scores as violence climbed toward levels seen before the U.S.-Iraqi campaign to pacify the capital began two months ago.

In the deadliest of the attacks, a parked car bomb detonated in a crowd of workers at the Sadriyah market in central Baghdad, killing at least 112 people and wounding 115, said Raad Muhsin, an official at Al-Kindi Hospital where the victims were taken.

A police official confirmed the toll, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information.

Among the dead were several construction workers who had been rebuilding the mostly Shiite marketplace after a bombing destroyed many shops and killed 137 people there in February, the police official said.

[Joe Fields]

1. But...But...The surge is working....Isn't it? n/t

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. just one question. WHY ARE WE STILL THERE?

what good are we doing?
Would this quagmire be any different if we were gone?

WHY ARE WE STILL THERE?

damn you, Bush

[LibinMo]

4. We must COMPLETE THE MISSION

Whatever that means

Or do we have a new rationalization this week?

[ChairmanAgnostic]

6. yeah, remind me George, WHAT WAS OUR MISSION, ANYWAY?

pardon my shouting. But being pissed off seems a natural state today. VaTech was bad enough, but we just caused, with our continued presence and policies in Iraq, 220 more deaths. And this shit manages to find time to go to a rich, beautiful campus (where admittedly, a tragedy took place) yet he blithely ignores how his decisions are leading to the daily deaths of 7 times as many victims. 7x. each day. every day.

[genie_weenie]

3. No no no, there is only 1 pesky bombing a day.

Everything else is a manufactured lie of the Islamo-Fasco-Commo-Libero-Media.

[stirlingsliver]

5. 157 People Killed.

157 people killed.

In one day.

Don't count on * to express his condolences or offer his sympathy.

Iraqis don't vote in US elections.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

7. 85 were killed earlier, or found dead and tortured in Baghdad BEFORE

these latest afternoon blasts.

[LaPera]

8. 157 KILLED! Hundreds more... the old, women & child wounded!

This killing goes on everyday and Bush/Cheney insist the war is going great...These war profiteers love death and killing, it really gets them off!

[GreenTea]

9. kick