Corners

Car bombs kill 30 in Iraq

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Car bombs killed 30 people in Iraq on Sunday and wounded more than 70 in one of the bloodiest spasms of violence of recent weeks as political leaders closed in on a deal to form a national unity government.

The southern city of Basra was largely calm as British military engineers examined the wreck of a helicopter whose apparent shooting-down was followed by clashes between troops and youths chanting triumphal Shi'ite militia slogans.

At least 21 people were killed and 52 wounded when a suicide bomber detonated a car on a crowded street in the Shi'ite holy city of Kerbala, south of Baghdad, police and doctors said. The effect was devastating.

Around the same time, two cars exploded in the capital.

So how many corners have been turned?

Iraq doesn't seem to be getting any better, the war party really are delusional if they think everything is sweetness and light in Iraq, they need to wake up and face the fact Iraq is a mess, and a bloody one at that.

I've always thought the US took after the British and Roman Empires but now I realise they have learnt nothing from either. The reason why both empires worked well to a degree was because they collaborated with the local elites, which made governing a country much easier. The US swept away the local Iraqi elites by disbanding the army and getting rid of Baathist party memembers, there was nobody to work with which is one of the reasons the US is having a tough time controlling Iraq.

Invading is the easy part, occupation is much harder.

Shows how little the Neocons and the Bush Junta know of history.