Can you imagine if a car bomb killed over 121 people in NYC today?

[trumad]

The country would stop what it was doing and be glued to the network news--- The White House would drag W's Bullhorn out of the mothballs and shine it up for a photo op on top of the rubble.

It happened today in Iraq--- Ho Hum--- just another day in Mesopotamia.

[spanone]

1. It's just fucking disgusting. While our president fiddles.

[CrazyOrangeCat]

2. The neo-cons have destroyed that country.

Utterly and completely.

They are dripping head to toe in the blood of innocents. And they want more.

Stop the war now, people.

Get out in the streets, write letters, make calls. Do something.

To hell with "Election '08". I call bullshit on that.

Stop the war. Now.

[pampango]

3. Horrendous. Our soldiers have got to stop doing this. What kind of inhumane

beasts would go around blowing up civilians? Wait, perhaps you are not suggesting that we are actually killing these civilians, but that we created the conditions in which they have chosen to kill each other. My bad.

Is this the same strategy that the French resistance had in WWII? Kill as many French civilians as possible in order to get the Germans occupiers to leave. The Iraqi "resistance" seems closer to achieving that goal than the French ever did, so it is a very effective public relations strategy. The French resistance fighters are probably rolling over in their graves.

[TheWraith]

5. Actually, I think the idea is to kill as many of the "other" people as possible.

Chances are you'll find out that this marketplace was mostly frequented by either Sunnis or Shiites, and that it was somebody on the other side of the line who blew it up. All over differences in the line of succession from a guy who died 1200 years ago.

[WilliamPitt]

4. That's why mocking the Boston bomb squad guys

should be done in a whisper. If at all.

[TahitiNut]

8. "The toons are coming! The toons are coming!"

(Shhhhhh!)

[trumad]

11. Boo

[uppityperson]

12. Will, seems most of the mocking to towards the media reaction & people's fear

not towards any bomb squad. Those guys have a tough job and most of us respect them a lot. The media, the feeding frenzy, the fear? No, those deserve to be mocked.

[specimenfred1984]

6. Some event like that will probably be used to attack Iran or Syria

And if it doesn't happen, the repukes will just make one up. I suspect the "attack" will be against U.S. interests overseas somewhere though as an attack on U.S. soil would also be seen as a chimpuke failure.

[TahitiNut]

7. They were just going shopping, too. Isn't that what Smirk says stops terror?

:sarcasm:

[zbdent]

9. Or, for the true equivalent (and not even adjusting for population ratios)

that over 3000 police were killed in the line of duty in the past 3 years in the US? Imagine if we played that to the correct proportion ... or even if the 3000 were in the same population sized state in the US? The entire state would be a ghost town.

[bullwinkle428]

10. Meanwhile, *'s minions try to push the argument that Baghdad is safer

than New Orleans or D.C., for example... :grr: :banghead: :argh: :mad: