[ohioWfan]

There were mortars fired into the crowd and there were suicide bombers.

It wasn't just hecklers.

People were jumping into the river to avoid being killed, and the railing of the bridge collapsed causing others to fall and crush them.

Westlander, your comment about lemmings is completely inappropriate in view of this human tragedy caused by terrorism.

[samadams2000]

Eating their own are they? You embrace terror as a strategy..your society dies by terror. Very sad.

[Westlander]

Main Entry: lem·ming
Pronunciation: 'le-mi[ng]
Function: noun
Etymology: Norwegian
: any of various small short-tailed furry-footed rodents (as genera Lemmus and Dicrostonyx) of circumpolar distribution that are notable for the recurrent mass migrations of a European form (L. lemmus)

[bethtopaz]

Thanks! I heard on the news this morning that as the crowd was crossing the bridge over the Tigris River, someone shouted "a suicide bomber! a suicide bomber!" and people started jumping off the bridge and then the railing broke. I guess there really was one (or more). Guess it takes some time to sort out all the facts after a big tragedy like this.

I always wonder to myself - what do these terrorists have to offer the people of Iraq? What are they possibly thinking: The Iraqis will choose OUR RULE over FREEDOM and DEMOCRACY? They have no plan, they have no ideas - only death and destruction and terror. The choice is so clear. The Iraqis will fight for their own freedom. We must stand behind them.