At least 115 people have been killed in bomb blasts in the Shia Sadr City area of the Iraqi capital, interior ministry and security sources say.
Details are still sketchy, but in one attack a car exploded at a food market which is a regular target of mainly Sunni Muslim insurgents.
Eyewitnesses quoted by Associated Press said burned bodies littered the ground.
Elsewhere in the capital, gunmen attacked the health ministry, sparking heavy gun battles with guards.
115+ die in Iraq blast
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Still a huge number... What the hell is going on, hundreds die there daily now and no one gives a damn.
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It is the steadily incremental nature of the violence that means that people become continually desensitized to the worsening headlines. A hundred a month one year, then a hundred week another year to a hundred a day the next...Stas Bush wrote:Still a huge number... What the hell is going on, hundreds die there daily now and no one gives a damn.
But I think that people do give a damn when they actually stop and consider what is happening.
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Sadr City? Who gives a damn.
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This VG cats seals it:Admiral Valdemar wrote:We should liberate our enemies more, it seems to do wonders for reducing their numbers. Let's liberate Iran next
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Especially the occupants of Sadr City, who are either in Sadr's Mahdi army or tacticly support his aims, which include said bombings, etc. I really can't get upset over this.Admiral Valdemar wrote:They're all ragheads anyway, let them burn, what do we care?
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Quite entertaining isn't it?Admiral Valdemar wrote:How silly of me. They're so full of rage, the civilians, they're bombing themselves now.
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Oh yes, it's right up there with self-flagellation and the application of red-hot pokers to the genitalia. Other fine old religious traditions which have sadly fallen out of favour in this wacky secular world we live in.MKSheppard wrote:Quite entertaining isn't it?Admiral Valdemar wrote:How silly of me. They're so full of rage, the civilians, they're bombing themselves now.
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Chromehounds joke goodStas Bush wrote:This VG cats seals it:Admiral Valdemar wrote:We should liberate our enemies more, it seems to do wonders for reducing their numbers. Let's liberate Iran next
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and it's a mix of it's da ragheads and not good old american boys dieing and no one really covers in America these stories
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The really ironic thing is that this is exactly how most of the world's Muslims reacted to 9/11. "New York? About time, those damned Americans have been supplying weapons to warlords and dictators in the Middle East for decades. I really can't get upset over a few thousand of them dying now." And of course, you use that reaction as proof that they're beyond the reach of reason and morality.MKSheppard wrote:Especially the occupants of Sadr City, who are either in Sadr's Mahdi army or tacticly support his aims, which include said bombings, etc. I really can't get upset over this.Admiral Valdemar wrote:They're all ragheads anyway, let them burn, what do we care?
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The grabbing of people leaving mosques, dousing them with kerosene, and burning them alive is also a... nasty touch. "Only" 5 or 6, but I have no doubt that now it's been done it will happen again. Guaranteed to continue the circle of violence.
What a shitstorm it all is.
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'Oh, it's not any worse than Philadelphia'.Broomstick wrote:The grabbing of people leaving mosques, dousing them with kerosene, and burning them alive is also a... nasty touch. "Only" 5 or 6, but I have no doubt that now it's been done it will happen again. Guaranteed to continue the circle of violence.
What a shitstorm it all is.
If the headlines said '6 Catholics seized outside Church and burned alive' in Philly, there'd be so much shit it's ridiculous. But we have psychopaths in charge, so no one cares.
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Who the hell is saying it's no worse than Philadelphia? Baghdad has as many murders in three days as we have all year--and our murder rate is a civic crisis.SirNitram wrote:'Oh, it's not any worse than Philadelphia'.Broomstick wrote:The grabbing of people leaving mosques, dousing them with kerosene, and burning them alive is also a... nasty touch. "Only" 5 or 6, but I have no doubt that now it's been done it will happen again. Guaranteed to continue the circle of violence.
What a shitstorm it all is.
If the headlines said '6 Catholics seized outside Church and burned alive' in Philly, there'd be so much shit it's ridiculous. But we have psychopaths in charge, so no one cares.
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The extremely serious, mature Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa.RedImperator wrote:Who the hell is saying it's no worse than Philadelphia? Baghdad has as many murders in three days as we have all year--and our murder rate is a civic crisis.
If he wasn't extremely serious and mature, why, that's just crazy talk. How dare you pretend Iraq is anything other than rosy! This happened in June, admittably, but it's a meme that's infected the retards who report on politics.27.51 Iraqis per 100,000 die a violent death on an annual basis. Now what does that mean? To me, it really doesn’t mean a lot until I compare it to people that I know or have a feel for the rhythm of this place. Well I by now have a feel for the rhythm of this place called Washington, D.C., and my wife lives here with me, and I can tell you, Mr. Speaker, she’s at far greater risk being a civilian in Washington, D.C. than an average civilian in Iraq. 45 out of every 100,000 Washington, D.C. regular residents die a violent death on an annual basis.
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IIRC, the population of Iraq is about 20 million; some quick calculations reveal that that kind of death rate should give us ~550 dead Iraqis per year.SirNitram wrote:The extremely serious, mature Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa.RedImperator wrote:Who the hell is saying it's no worse than Philadelphia? Baghdad has as many murders in three days as we have all year--and our murder rate is a civic crisis.
If he wasn't extremely serious and mature, why, that's just crazy talk. How dare you pretend Iraq is anything other than rosy! This happened in June, admittably, but it's a meme that's infected the retards who report on politics.27.51 Iraqis per 100,000 die a violent death on an annual basis. Now what does that mean? To me, it really doesn’t mean a lot until I compare it to people that I know or have a feel for the rhythm of this place. Well I by now have a feel for the rhythm of this place called Washington, D.C., and my wife lives here with me, and I can tell you, Mr. Speaker, she’s at far greater risk being a civilian in Washington, D.C. than an average civilian in Iraq. 45 out of every 100,000 Washington, D.C. regular residents die a violent death on an annual basis.
Yes, that makes so much sense when death tolls smaller than this don't even make the headlines any more.
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