What civil war?

AFP/Al Rubaye

Via the AP, a Mosque Explosion Kills 79 in Iraq.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Suicide attackers wearing women's robes blew themselves up Friday in a Shiite mosque, killing 79 people and wounding more than 160, police said. It was the deadliest single attack in Iraq this year and the second major bombing of a Shiite target in as many days.

Police Lt. Col. Falah al-Mohammedawi said the blasts were caused by two suicide attackers wearing black abayas at the Buratha mosque, which is affiliated with the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, the main Shiite party.

Jalal Eddin al-Sagheer, the preacher at the mosque and one of the country's leading politicians, said there were three assailants. One came through the women's security checkpoint and blew up first, he said. Another raced into the mosque's courtyard while a third came to his office before detonating his bomb, said al-Sagheer, who was not injured.

He accused Sunni politicians and clerics of waging "a campaign of distortions and lies against the Buratha mosque, claiming that it includes Sunni prisoners and mass graves of Sunnis."

Cue the administration nattering on about how "we're fighting 'em there instead of here" and how Iraqis just need to "choose democracy."

The photo is graphic, but then, so is war.

I wish I could paper the oval office with ten thousand color photographs of the death and destruction we've caused. Sadly, I doubt even that would get bush's attention.