Just today...
HuffPo
BAGHDAD — Two bombs went off within minutes of each other in a crowded shopping district in the capital Thursday, killing at least 53 people and wounding 130 _ a reminder that deadly attacks are a daily threat even though violence is down.
The surge is working......but who's surge?????
Iraqis were enjoying a pleasant spring evening when a roadside bomb hidden under a vendor stall detonated in the primarily Shiite, middle-class Baghdad neighborhood of Karradah. Five minutes later, a suicide bomber wearing an explosive belt detonated, Mohammed al-Rubaie, the head of the Karradah municipality, told the state-run Al-Iraqiya TV.
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Hassan Abdullah, who owns a clothing shop in the area, said he was walking to the site of the first blast to see what happened when the second bomb went off.
"I saw a leg and a hand falling near me as I was walking. The whole place was a mess. Wounded people were crying for help, and people started to run away," said Abdullah, 25. "The aim of such attacks is the random killing of as many people as possible in order to terrorize Iraqi people."
I know we all our vigorously defending our candidate of choice and are trying to frame the issues, but I notice that several surveys are saying that the Economy is #1 issue, and Iraq is either #2, or #3. We can't allow Iraq to slip off the pages. The surge hasn't work but the bar has been lowered so low any reasonable metric like -- troop deaths are down, which is good -- is used by the media to not report that Iraqis have been dying virtually at the same rate month to month. Al-Qaeda has not left Iraq, they decided to retreat to reassess and analyze our movements.
In this political season we must not let the media remove Iraq as the definining issue. They have just as much to lose, since they cheerleaded the Iraq War in the beginning. The FireDogLake LTE tool is a wonderful way to send letters to several papers at one time and we should use it to keep Iraq on the minds of American.
Yes, the economy an issue, but not the most important one. And we need to convince America of that. How dare we become Iraq fatigued....