BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Suspected Shiite militiamen killed at least 46 Sunni Arabs in a weekend rampage of revenge killing in a city north of Baghdad, an Interior Ministry official said Sunday, raising the toll in the latest sectarian bloodletting there to 63.
A string of bombings in the northern city of Kirkuk killed 10 people, including two girls who died when a man detonated explosives strapped to his body in front of the al-Mallimin girls high school in downtown Kirkuk, police officials said.
If you read the whole article, it's a catalog of horrors. And it's the violence report from one day. I can't imagine how Iraqi civilians feel living in the middle of this carnage.
Meanwhile, the pentagon reports 5 more Americans died there:
The U.S. military reported the deaths of a Marine and four soldiers. The Marine was killed in combat in Anbar province, the Sunni heartland west of Baghdad on Saturday.
Three soldiers died in a roadside bombing Saturday south of Baghdad, and one soldier was killed in a roadside bombing Friday night southwest of the capital.
The marine appears to have been the lucky one- he was merely shot to death (I assume.) The others were blown apart by roadside bombs.
The terrible thing is that the deaths of these soldiers didn't even merit a separate article. Just more numbers, I suppose.
A pox on everyone who wanted this war.
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The terrible thing is that the deaths of these soldiers didn't even merit a separate article. Just more numbers, I suppose.
One death is a tragedy. A million is a statistic.
We've been in the land of statistics for awhile now.
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