HUGE Explosion, UN Building, Baghdad (All US Senators safe)

ABC Radio, WLS-AM, Chicago ^ | 08/19/03 | GRRRRR

[GRRRRR]

WLS-AM & ABC News, just A LARGE explosion just reported at the UN Building in Baghdad...perhaps 500lb bomb or more..

[Peach]

Agreed. The US IS superior to the UN and it's become increasingly apparent to nearly every American.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Well, let's try it and see.

We can do an analysis. I'll accept the independent results, and call for more of the same if it is effective.

[shawnlaw]

The Iraqi people have been liberated from a dictator. Iraq is on a irreversible course toward self-government and peace. And America and our friends and the United Nations will stand with the Iraqi people as they reclaim their nation and their future.

Meaning that the UN is NOT out Friend!

[happygrl]

Salam Pax, the commie Iraqi blogger, has in the past noted that UN and NGO workers tend to be prominent Baghdad partygoers and partythrowers

Does anyone know where this arrogant, ungrateful piece of **** was today ?

[boxerblues]

You said it much better than I could

[Ex-Dem]

Salam Pax:

bad scene, very bad scene.
U.N. Says at Least 10 People Are Killed in Blast

was there about an hour after it happened. really bad. very quick response from the American military, the helicopters with red crosses on them were going back and forth and there wer always three waiting to get the poeple to hospitals. ambulances going back and forth. the whole area cordoned off. the worst was having to talk to people who have relative and family in there. it is a car bombed there is no question about it.
you realize this is the second car bomb, the jordanian embassy.
there is a friggin' Iraqi idiot now on Jazeera saying that the security responsibility should be given over to the Iraqi Governing Council. Fuck off, this is not about American presence in Iraq. these attacks have nothing to do with the so called resistance. These are fucking idiots who destroying all the efforts to help this country get back on it's feet. the fucking Governing Council could not control this mess the moment the Coalition Forces move out we are plunged in chaos. We have entered a dark dark tunnel and we have no idea what will happen now.

Ok this is what we know. a truck (some say a cement mixer) was driving by the UN building (Canal Hotel) then swerved past the median stopped in the outside parking lot. and exploded. the west side of the building was destroyed, they were in the middle of a scheduled press conference about land mines in Iraq. the street was chaos people were rushing out of the windows and doors. injured people were all over. the american ,ilitary was there pretty fast and started evacuating the injured. they brought in rescue teams to pull out people from under the building. the place of the blast was a huge crater and was too close to the wall. the word is still out on the issue whether it was a suicide attack or not, the driver could have just parcked the car and left. when we got there there were lots of poeple trying to find out what happened to their families. people crying, shouting. the thing is there is a a hospital right next to the UN building, the cieling there caved in because of the explosion. many injured but no one killed.
this is what I know and what I saw.

I am plunging into a fucking depression, do we have a future? is this country going to be hijacked by shit extremists who want to prove a point?
:: salam 8:25 PM [+] ::

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Pres. Bush leaves in the middle of a golf game, says exactly what the Iraqi people need to hear within minutes - on TV, hair disheveled.

Remember Clinton couldn't bother to take a phone call from Sandy Berger - with the military ready and waiting for a simple word from the CIC to act against a terrorist - a CIC who angrily refused - three times - to interrupt the golf tournament to answer the phone.

[MeekOneGOP]

Brazil ? Isn't that the drug center of S. America ?? ...

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Thank you for posting the President's comments, m.

[rrrod]

EXCELLANT!!!!!

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

YOU are so right. Thank you. I'm glad he said the US and not the UN.

[AmericanInTokyo]

FYI, in answer to your question, the "Arab Street" press still tends to run only emotional stories and pictures (like this one) to whip up Arabs everywhere and paint the USA (and its exposed troops) as some kind of terrible occupying crusader ogre. Then, their young people, hot, short-tempered, easily manipulated, disgruntled, emotional and lacking in general education (but with just enough bomb making training) rush out into the "Arab Street" and do things like they did today in B'dad.

Here, for example, is a photo that al-Jazeera runs widely, alluding to US molestation of Iraq (female) civilians:

[Peach]

Good analogy between Clinton/Berger and Bush/today's bombing.

[TEXOKIE]

Thanks for the ping!

[txrangerette]

Agreed!

[boxerblues]

I see the UN spin machine is working overtime to make this the fault of the US...gotta love the b@stards

[mhking]

Pres. Bush leaves in the middle of a golf game, says exactly what the Iraqi people need to hear within minutes - on TV

Where's Charlie Gibson's bitching about Bush on vacation now, huh?

[Ex-Dem]

First of all, why is that Iraqi woman grinning if she's being molested? Second, what gender is that soldier frisking her (the one with his/her back turned)? The soldier seems awfully short, and the build isn't right for a guy.

[woodyinscc]

He is all over this and looks ticked which is good because he's at his best when he's not worried about what the lamestream press thinks about him.

He is PO and it is real. If Clintoon was addressing this, he would look mad as hell, swear to get these b-----ds, and probably have a tear in his eye. All Barbara Streisand! When he was through he ordered a poll taken, just to see how much his approval ratings went up.

He did this three times!! WTC OKC USS COLE

[faithincowboys]

I think the unanimous (I believe Syria abstained) Security Council vote that recognized the interim Iraqi governing council is the thing that made them do this. It was a shot across the UN's bow, it was meant to convey, "Don't think about getting more involved in this and givin UN "legitimacy" to it."