4 Baghdad Churches Bombed In 24 Hours

cnn.com:

Four Baghdad churches were bombed in less than 24 hours and eight civilians were wounded, officials said Sunday.

Three bombs exploded outside churches Sunday afternoon, wounding the civilians, an Interior Ministry official said. The bombs detonated within a 15-minute span, between 4:30 and 4:45 p.m. local time (9:30 and 9:45 a.m. ET).

Two of the churches are in central Baghdad's al-Karrada district, and the third is in al-Ghadeer in eastern Baghdad.

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Comments

[alienufo]

the Iraqi's aren't attacking us, they are attacking eachother. We just sometimes get in the middle. Its still a civil war.

[elcojonu]

We waltz into a place, destroy it for the next 6 years, decide we've had enough fun and leave.
THEN, we remember that there is another place that we've been in just as long but haven't paid too much attention to the last 6 years and decide to go back there to have some more fun.
American foreign policy in the late 20th. early 21st. Century. Vision and Wisdom at it's finest.
Then we ask ourselves why folks overseas dislike us so much.
Maybe a destroyed economy like the one we're headed into will finally solve the problem of our addiction to getting into trouble every 10 years or so.

[Hirnlego]

Leaving? Oh please..

[MikeDu]

The Iraqi Christian community was perfectly secure BEFORE Bush took over the country. What a fiasco. Everything Bush touched he botched.

[mitsie]

CNN and the MSM didn't do their jobs reporting the war when we were involved, now that the Iraqian people are suppose to fight their own war on terror, or whatever you want to call it, they are trying to get the public all upset and telling the President, we should get involved.

[CitizenIndie]

We're not still at war.

The Iraqis are still at war. It's been six years and WE'VE had our fill.

Since Iraqis didn't fight for their freedom against the Republican guard, maybe now they can DEFEND their freedom from the terrorists.

[wehrke]

I think there should be a debate about the life of the average Iraqi before and after Sadam. Forget about the cost in US lives and money for a moment. Has one devil just been traded for another? This should be a lesson for any future president and leader.

[MadDemocrat]

Last I checked we didn't gas a bunch of innocents. Some have unfortunately died, yes. We are the only country dumping billions of dollars into military weapons to MINIMIZE innocent civilians from dying. You think Iran would be worried about you and your family if they were bombing us?

[tiredofthesameoldstuff]

More Iraqis in a year now die by violent means then in a decade of Saddam. Millions have fled the country and millions more are refugees within the country.

As for minimizing innocent civilian deaths care to tell me why the US military said that for every insurgent killed in an airstrike over a 1000 innocents are killed by these airstrikes? Tell me something if your children, your relatives died in such an act how willing would you be to take up arms against the force that did that? This is why killing such people in airstrikes rather then having ground special forces apprehened them for trial always creates over a dozen insurgents for every one killed and that is within that country word of these actions of course gets out of the country causing people to loathe the US and want to take up arms against the United States.

Bush was Laden's best recruitment tool. For every one soldier Laden lost Bush managed to make him gain a hundred more.

[longtimegone]

You posted your gas comment earlier; when I answered it, you never returned with any rejoinder; now you're here, giving voice to it again. Additionally, you now assert that dumping billions of dollars into military hardware minimizes the deaths of the innocent and float the red herring of an Iranian bombing attack on the United States, speculating about whether, in the event of this utterly impossible occurrence, the Iranian bombs would be as tactful as our own. Now, a day later, as we learn of the Israeli lobby's efforts to make Americans fear a non-existent Iranian mega-embassy in "our" hemisphere, one can only wonder what inspired you to float the idea of an impossible Iranian bombing attack on America.

[lifesucks]

What debate - it sucked under Sadam Hussein and it sucks now. People need to get a clue that they are being controlled and manipulated with religion.

[dogman44]

If religion doesn't work dint of force will. Most people are too afraid of dying
to live their lives and take a serious stand for what they believe in. This will
be the death of democracy. An unengaged citizenry is a weak citizenry.

[MarkBoston]

wont get any tears from me about sects of superstition blowing each other up .. Once all religion is a thing of the past , THEN mankind can live in peace. Let them all blow each other up .... more murder and mayhem have been over My god's better than your god .. ENOUGH!!

[DocSyracuse]

Most religious people are peaceful. In modern times, it's a small minority responsible for the violence. Your intolerance re eks.

[RuinedSaint]

Extremists hide behind the rights of the moderate.

[StephBr]

They only look peaceful, just look at how YOU jumped at MarkBoston, was that peaceful?
Peacefull people like yourself in large numbers are dangerous.

[longtimegone]

This violence, this turning of Iraqi upon Iraqi, was unheard of before the illegal American invasion of Iraq, whose infrastructure for water and electricity are still at pre-war levels. We shattered a sovereign nation, killed hundreds of thousands of its citizens and scattered millions more, and, as your comment demonstrates, we just don't care: as we depart, we can look back over our collective shoulder and say "I just don't know what's wrong with those people."
Saddam was our asset, and we gave him chemical and biological weapons to use against Iran. We counted on him to maintain a rigid hold on his oil rich nation, for it's hard to extract oil from a region in chaos; then, when the pawn was no longer necessary, we gave him the green light to invade Kuwait and then came down on him like a ton of bricks. And then Shock and Awe.
Imagine America, after two invasions shattering any semblance of government and infrastructure, with no internal power strong enough to maintain order. In my imagination I see a nation at each others throats; I see long suppressed divisions turning into open expressions of hatred and violence; In my imagination I see us blowing each other to bits. Who dares to say that the same chaos is not silently waiting just beneath the surface of our society?

[MadDemocrat]

Right, you just had government gassing its own citizens, that's all. No problem.

[sasson]

You realize far more fighting is done over property--including what is going on in Iraq. Religion is just a pretext. Nice try though.

[Hirnlego]

This is not the way to rid the world of religion. This will likely only radicalize more people.

[Weirdwriter]

Mark -- just have to agree. I mean, we had some terrific godless, religion-banning regimes,such as Stalinist Russia, Khmer Rouge Cambodia, etc.

Models to build civilizations on. Ah, good times... right, Mark?

[Hirnlego]

All societies are really godless. The problems with those regimes you mention is that they had way too much power. They were anything goes pretty much...

[tiredofthesameoldstuff]

Actually those just made the state god. They didn't follow the words of Marx that is for sure.

Stalin learned his behavior from his training to be a Catholic Priest. His damn seminary school had the Christian role models murder one another to advance in the Catholic hierarchy.

[exhale09]

If the Iraqi's are not able to control their own country by now, then as far as I am concerned they are on their own to sink...because our Country can not hold their hands and our soldiers can not continue to die for them indefinitely.

If the Iraqi people are not willing to take to the streets to defend their own families, and country, NOTHING we can do will ever be enough.

[JoeBlough]

They were able to control their own country until we invaded them and screwed everything up.

[Gasparilla]

Not really. A dictator or chaos is not much of a choice.

[hark]

We destroyed their ability to maintain order and peace. We have a moral obligation to fix the horrific mess we made of the country. Of course we can't bring back the 100,000 civilian Iraqis slaughtered on our watch, cure the wounded and sick, repay them for the lost years of poverty, unemployment and despair, rekindle their lost spirits, but we surely owe them more than just cutting and running before they are back to what they were under Saddam.

Imagine, these people were better off with Saddam, after Gulf War I, and after a dozen years of crippling sanctions, than they are now, after we illegally invaded and occupied them. This is the crime of the 21st century, and nobody even bothers to acknowledge this fact.

We have disgraced ourselves as a nation.

[lifesucks]

The Iraqis never had the ability to maintain order and peace - that's why they had a dictator.

Cutting and running? How many more years of American bloodshed on foreign soil do you want to see? This is what they wanted - Americans out.

[StephBr]

Oh, so we were there to hold their hands? How cute.
And our boys are dying for... them?
Are you guys watching FoxNews in Teletubbies land ?

[957]

Way to go Obama, pulling all the troops out means all the ones killed trying to free that country died for nothing again, hope you libs are happy now.

[DocSyracuse]

They are. Iraq was just a campaign slogan for libs.

[mitsie]

We have lost enough of our young people in Iraq, let them take care of themselves. They have been fighting for hundreds of years and will be for hundreds more. That dosen't mean we have to continue this war that didn't have to be started.

[hark]

They are free. Bush said so.

What in the world is wrong with you crazy right wingers? We didn't attack them to free them. We attacked them to get their oil, to privatize the oil industry so our corporations could make huge profits.

[JustADumbFireman]

Bravo.

[hark]

Excuse me, it's the Iraqis who are kicking us out. They've had enough of us destroying their country for no reason.

[Hirnlego]

Well don't worry..the American empire will stay there.. even under Obama.
"Free"? What a joke..

[JoeBlough]

The Iraqies are at war with each other. We are just caught in the middle. Should never have gone in. They can sort it out themselves.

[KarelS]

"We're" still at war? You mean as in the United States is still at war in Iraq? Sorry. "We're" outta' there. We've got Afghanistan now to spend money we don't have to prosecute a war that never should have been waged against an enemy we supported during the Soviet invasion.

[TFlint]

No, we're still not at war. Iraq is still at war with Iraq. So let them go on with it. Bring our soldiers home. Let Haliburon defend itself.

[SaulBloodworth]

The U.S. invaded Iraq the same old-fashioned way Germany invaded Poland. Stop being dillusional And last time I checked Obama was building long-term bases in Iraq.

[JoeBlough]

They were all started by Bush. The war profiteers have Bush contracts to carry out.

[TFlint]

Four churches bombed. And the picture shows Muslims at prayer. Huh?

[watchTVgetSTUPID]

So much for Bush/Obama democracy flowing from the barrel of a Corporate owned gun.

I was amused this morning by CNN's Fareed Zakaria claiming the Honduras coup was protecting Democracy. He sounded so ridiculous and owned. He really pushed the concept that the elected president was undemocratic for scheduling a democratic vote by the Nation's people. He also pushed the concept that by ovrthrowing the democratically elected President, the military leaders were protecting Democracy. When will a journalist dare to ask Obama if he will abandon the Monroe doctrine in place since 1823? The Monroe doctrine says the Western Hemisphere is ours to dominate by force if necessary.

2+2=5 ... white is black .... black is white
Fareed Zakaria is a propagandist
Fareed Zakaria is dangerous
Fareed Zakaria is the face of military subjugation of millions of people like you and me

[DLB]

I' ve heard that Honduras' Constitution specifically states that no president can serve more than one term (seems they've had problems with leaders becoming dictators). So how could the president schedule a vote to extend his term? Wouldn't Honduras' Constitution have to be amended? Does Honduras' Constitution enumerate a way for the people to directly vote to amend their Constitution?

I sure hope you have answers to these questions. Otherwise, someone might get the impression that you have no idea what you're talking about.

[watchTVgetSTUPID]

Are you claiming the Honduran Constitution is not Democratic? I thought you would.

[OlongapoEd]

Iraq has always been an entity cobbled together out of incompatible ethnic elements (blame the British for that). Pouring lives and money into an attempt to keep it together is a waste of both. However, the usual suspects are always quite happy to waste both as long as it is for the right cause (pun intended).

[JoeBlough]

Right cause beibg Big Profits".