Senator McVain

Lorry bomb kills children in school

A newborn baby was one of at least 14 children and adults killed when a suicide bomber detonated a lorry laden with explosives close to a primary school in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk yesterday.

The latest massacre of Iraqi children came as 21 Shia market workers were ambushed, bound and shot dead north of the capital. The victims came from the Baghdad market visited the previous day by John McCain, the US presidential candidate, who said that an American security plan in the capital was starting to show signs of progress.

Words fail me.

McCain is an incredibly vain man and a fool, taking a 'stroll round Baghdad' surrounded by a platoon of soldiers and plenty of air cover just to back up his claims that Iraq is peaceful, hoping it plays well to the domestic audience, really sickening. Not to mention how incredibly insulting it must be for those traders at the market to see this American swan around in a bullet proof vest, being given every protection, while they have to put up daily with car bombs, death squads and a raging civil war.


A man stands at the scene of a car bomb attack in Baghdad April 2, 2007. A car bomb killed two people and wounded nine others in the southern Bayaa district of Baghdad, police said.

REUTERS/Ceerwan Aziz

Four Years On!

Multiple blasts strike Kirkuk

Three car bombs and two roadside devices have killed 18 people and wounded 37 in Kirkuk, police say.

The blasts happened in different parts of the Iraqi city but exploded within a few minutes of each other. Police Colonel Taha Salaheddin said the first and largest attack on Monday, a car bomb near two mosques, killed 10 and wounded eight.

The bomb exploded in central Kirkuk's Sector 90 district which houses the two mosques, one Shia and one Sunni, as well as the emergency police command, Salaheddin said.

He said 10 cars were burned and 20 shops damaged.

The surge does not seem to have much effective in Iraq, deaths continue and have now approached the one million mark and the increase in pessimism amongst Iraqis about the current situation, and still the war supporters continue to insist everything is wonderful and that we who opposed it since the start are clearly 'islamofascists' and 'terrorist supporters' weakening their manliness, there need to kill, to live out their violent fantasies, sending other people's children to die for it. They cannot admit where and when they have gone wrong, instead choosing to bury their heads in the sand.

Iraqis do not trust U.S. Forces

A tale of two surveys.

Bush the Perfunctory

Iraq War

British solders ride on a vehicle during a joint patrol with Iraqi soldiers in a village in Basra, Iraq, February 17, 2007. REUTERS/Wisam Ahmed

Blair to pull out troops.

Brit Troops To Trickle Out Of Iraq - Blair Statement Set For Tomorrow ...

Blair 'to confirm Iraq timetable'

Prime Minister Tony Blair is expected to announce a timetable for the withdrawal of UK troops from Iraq.

Mr Blair is due to make a statement about the 7,000 British troops serving in Iraq at the Commons on Wednesday.

The BBC's James Landale said 1,500 troops were expected to return home in months, rising to 3,000 by Christmas.

Downing Street has not confirmed the reports but Whitehall sources have told the BBC the process could be slowed down if the situation in Iraq worsens.

A Downing Street spokesman said: "It is right that the prime minister should update Parliament first."

Wonder what made Blair to decided to start withdrawing troops?

Its certainly a positive development. Iraq is a hopeless situation, and its a bloody mess, withdrawing now is not going to make the situation worse, it is already long past that stage.

Perhaps to still keep up the delusion he can act independently of Bush? or so Iraq won't be an albatross hanging around Brown's neck. Maybe he was worried about Prince Harry going to Iraq? heh I mean he is not going to be popular around Buckingham Palace by telling Brenda her son is dead.

Blair is also going to step down this year as PM, and this might be all about his obsession over his legacy and his desperate need to salvage it.

Then again this could be a precursor to the Bush Junta's plan to bomb Iran but then I am just putting on my tinfoil hat.

I can't wait to see how the war supporters spin this!!!!!