TOONS: Is Iraq A Bloody Success? ... Let Freedom Rain! --->>>

[doh_phooey]

[Glenda]

1. OH, i like your last bumper sticker

:kick:

[Viva_La_Revolution]

5. Me too!

you could shorten "sons and daughters" to "troops" but... it just wouldn't have the same punch.

[blarbushie]

19. Moi trois

en francais

[Blue_Tires]

2. ttt

[doh_phooey]

3. Sectarian Killings Surge In Iraq

(CBS/AP) The death toll in a surge of sectarian killings in Balad swelled to at least 91 on Monday, police and army officials said. Bombings and shootings in Baghdad and other parts of the country killed at least 60 others — including the brother of the chief prosecutor in the second trial of former dictator Saddam Hussein.

Sectarian fighting exploded over the weekend in Balad and nearby regions, 50 miles north of Baghdad. The bloodshed began with the slayings of 17 Shiite workers on Friday. Shiites swiftly retaliated by setting up roadblocks, dragging off and killing those Sunnis they caught. An army officer at provincial headquarters said authorities have counted 74 Sunnis killed since Friday.

In Bagdhad, a pair of car bombings at a Shiite funeral killed 15 people and wounded dozens of others, police said. An explosives-packed car driven by a suicide bomber slammed into the funeral tent in eastern Baghdad's Ur neighborhood at about 5:30 p.m. (1430 GMT), Lt. Ahmed Mohammed Ali said. Shortly afterward a second explosion from a car parked nearby ripped through a crowd of rescuers and onlookers who had rushed to the scene, Ali said.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/10/16/iraq/main2090857.shtml

[doh_phooey]

4. IRAQ SLAUGHTER CONTINUES UNABATED

The British are also more realistic about reporting the death toll in Iraq. "The Lancet," Britain's leading medical journal, published the findings of a research team that pegs the Iraqi casualties as a result of the invasion and steady carnage since at more than 650,000.

"Not credible," Bush quickly dismissed the report. The former dunce and class clown, recently revealed as a lover of Shakespeare, must now be adding epidemiology and statistical analysis to his growing lists of intellectual pursuits.

The big push to redeploy troops to pacify Baghdad is an abject failure. The Iraq Health Ministry reports 2,660 civilians were killed in the capital in September -- 400 more than in August.

"The stakes are high," Bush mindlessly repeats as blood flows like the Tigris in the city he "liberated." He has no plan, no exit strategy nor any idea of what to do other than repeat his stump lines like "stay the course" and brand all who oppose him as disloyal and preparing to "cut and run."

http://www.niagarafallsreporter.com/gallagher285.html

[Viva_La_Revolution]

6. Has this been posted in it's own thread?

It's great.

"The stakes are high," Bush mindlessly repeats as blood flows like the Tigris in the city he "liberated." He has no plan, no exit strategy nor any idea of what to do other than repeat his stump lines like "stay the course" and brand all who oppose him as disloyal and preparing to "cut and run."

The Busheviks just spew those lines ad nauseam, and their slaves in the media repeat them and pretend they actually mean something. The Google numbers are telling. "Cut and run Bush" shows 22.6 million items, "stay the course Bush" 19.9 million, and "stakes are high Bush" has 3.7 million references. For "Richard Dannat Iraq," you'll find 297,000. For "Lancet Iraq 650,000 deaths," the Google items are a mere 25,000. Sure, Bush's bromides have been around quite a while longer, but it is evident the media's incessant echoing of the lines gives them longer, undeserved life.

The Johns Hopkins survey shows 60 percent of the Iraqi deaths were among males 15 to 44 years old, deserved lives cut short in a war of choice. For them and their families, the stakes are high, indeed.

[doh_phooey]

8. I don't know

I just saw the article this morning.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

9. I did a search, you are the first to find it.

I don't know if it's new enough for LBN though...

[doh_phooey]

10. What about "Editorials & Other Articles"?

nt

[Viva_La_Revolution]

11. perfect place for it. nt

[doh_phooey]

13. Another good editorial (out today)

John Nichols: Bush plays politics with Iraqi dead

Now George Bush claims "the methodology is pretty well discredited" and suggests that the researchers "guessed at" their findings.

If the president had any track record for getting things right with regard to Iraq, he might merit a hearing. But from the start of his miserable misadventure, Bush has talked up the wrong threats, imagined the wrong successes and embraced the wrong strategies. Now he tells us that others are wrong about the damage done by his miscalculations.

That's not a scientific judgment on the president's part. It's politics - or, to be more precise, an attempt to maintain the long lie that is Bush's Iraq policy through one more election.

http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion/column/index.php?ntid=103519&ntpid=0

[doh_phooey]

14. Stats & Facts

http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/USfatalities.html

http://icasualties.org/oif/

[RebelOne]

7. Actually, I don't know if it was deliberate, but

it's not "Let Freedom Rain," but "Let Freedom Ring." And Bush made the mistake of writing on a note to Condi "Let Freedom Reign."

[Jacobin]

12. Another possibility is "let freedom reign"

But, I dunno if that's what he meant.

[caffeinefwee]

15. it's raining blood

10 More U. S. soldiers killed in Iraq Yesterday.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2420963

[doh_phooey]

16. U.S. must find a way off its endlessly bloody path in Iraq

• Sunni Muslims were fleeing across the Tigris River to escape a four-day rampage by Shiites that left at least 91 people dead in Balad, a city of 80,000 north of Baghdad. The violence escalated after the headless bodies of 17 Shiite workers were found Friday.

• Bombings in and near Baghdad killed 10 people and 11 other bodies were dumped in communities around the capital. A dozen more people, including a police officer gunned down in a drive-by shooting, were killed in weekend violence just outside Baghdad.

• As imprisoned former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein issued an open letter saying "liberation is at hand," the brother of the chief prosecutor in Hussein's genocide trial was shot to death.

• The number of American troops killed in October topped 50 with 12 more deaths since Friday. It is conceivable that the U.S. death toll since the March 2003 invasion will hit 3,000 by the end of the month.

• Bush predictably dismissed as "not credible" research showing 655,000 "excess" civilian deaths in Iraq since the March 2003 invasion. But the researchers used a methodology accepted all over the world for such grim work. Other independent reviewers said the Iraq project was actually better than similar efforts, because the families contacted were, most of the time, able to produce death certificates for their loved ones who were lost in the violence. The lead researcher from Johns Hopkins University did concede that the range of deaths could be between 400,000 and 950,000. Six-figure numbers are staggering in any range.

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061017/OPINION01/610170330/1068/OPINION

[doh_phooey]

17. Things are going remarkably well, really?

[doh_phooey]

18. kick

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[blarbushie]

20. Cheney

Rush Limbaugh interviewed Vice President Cheney on his show today. At one point, Limbaugh asked Cheney to respond to growing frustration over U.S. efforts in Iraq.

Cheney acknowledged there is a “natural level of concern out there” because fighting didn’t end “instantaneously.” (Next month, the war will have lasted longer than U.S. fighting in World War II.) Cheney then pointed to various news items to paint a positive picture of conditions in Iraq and concluded, “If you look at the general overall situation, they’re doing remarkably well.”





http://thinkprogress.org/2006/10/17/cheney-rush/