Yikes! Iraqi bombing toll now at least 260; local reports say 500

[tgnyc]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/08/15/iraq.main/index.html

US military spokesman calls it "genocide" against the little-known (to Americans) Yazidi.

The complete death toll from this entire fiasco will be unimaginable.

So the genocide that the US is allegedly preventing simply shifts to a different target.

Why, again, are we still there?

[malaise]

1. And what does the US military call the

death of one million Iraqis? What does their occupation of Iraq have to do with these mind blowing numbers?

[atreides1]

4. They call that

"Collateral Damage"

And it's all the fault of the terrorists.

[malaise]

8. Indeed n/t

[Wilber_Stool]

2. Just when you think

you can't be shocked anymore.

[Robbien]

3. It is despicable that the original number cited by the US sources was only 40

while the original number cited by local police forces were 175.

Peace

[Virginia Dare]

6. Sad when you have to trust the Iraqi sources word over the U.S...n/t

[izzie]

5. I am having trouble with this one. Wasn't things getting better?

Oh I knew that is a joke but how they keep this 'better' business up is making me shocked. What a mess Bush is going to leave for the next guy.

[aquart]

7. I have no idea why is this is being blamed on al qaeda.

War is a damned good cover for getting rid of people you never liked anyway. ONLY Yazhidi villages? Why should that bother anyone in the US? This ain't "al qaeda." It's a Sunni grudge. Did the Turks pay for it?

[tgnyc]

9. To the Bushies, everything bad in Iraq is al qaeda's fault