Suicide Bombers Kill Dozens Across Iraq (Surge working-- time to move Goalposts)

BAGHDAD, March 24 -- More than 45 Iraqis were killed and dozens injured in suicide bombings across Iraq on Saturday, officials said, as insurgents stepped up their offensives against the Iraqi police and military.

The deadliest attack took place in Baghdad when a suicide bomber managed to get a truck loaded with construction materials -- and explosives -- past a checkpoint and into the parking lot of a Dora neighborhood police station, where construction work was being done. Fourteen policemen and six civilians were killed, and 26 people were wounded, news services reported, citing police sources.

Bombings and killings in Bagdad are declining so now it is time for the media to move the goal posts. We now talk about deaths across the entire state of Iraq. One bombing took place near the Syrian border.

Terrorist attacks can be significantly reduced further by invading Syria and Iran.

We cannot afford to invade anyone right now. We don't have the money to rebuild them.
Suggestion: we invade to kill and conquer, instead of to build and reform. I hear it's much cheaper, not to mention safer. It also may provide a nice deterrent.

Isn't it amazing? A year ago there would be several incidents in which 40 or more civilians and police officers were killed, now it's 45 across the entire country and the drift of the story is how badly we are losing and how poorly the surge is going for us.

It hasn't been that long ago when 200 a day were dying from car bombs and the sort.

The saddest thing about all of this is that we've reached the point where the Lefties/MSM don't even feel the need to hide their overt support for the enemy any more. They just go with the enemy's talking point from the start, with no feeling of shame that they are aiding and abetting the people who are killing Americans fighting forces. People who would much rather kill an entire great American city than a few soldiers in Iraq, but don't as yet have the means to do it.

Al Gore whined on about how the kids of the future will be asking why we didn't see and respond to global warming, even though nearly half the scientists who study it disagree about it's cause and extent. I think they will sooner be asking why we didn't wipe out countries like Iran and Syria and N. Korea when there was absolutely no doubt as to what they were planning to do. When a country tells the world for thirty plus years that their goal is wipe you off the face of the Earth, and then sets about producing at all cost the very weapons to do just that, it's nothing less than mental illness to ignore them.

Why rebuild Syria and Iran? We do some quick and highly damaging raids - both air and land - then leave after a month. Let whoever is there rebuild. If we don't like the results, repeat again in 5 or 6 months.

The only rebuilding we should be interested in is Iraq. We need to make them the jewel of the middle east.

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