See what I mean?

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Car bombs killed nearly 200 people in Baghdad on Wednesday in the deadliest attacks in the city since U.S. and Iraqi forces launched a security crackdown aimed at halting the country's slide into civil war.

One car bomb alone in the mainly Shi'ite Sadriya neighborhood killed 140 people and wounded 150, police said, making it the worst insurgent bomb attack in Baghdad since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.

"The street was transformed into a swimming pool of blood," Ahmed Hameed, a shopkeeper near the scene, told Reuters.... The apparently coordinated attacks -- there were four within a short space of time -- occurred hours after Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said Iraq would take security control of the whole country from foreign forces by the end of the year

Freedom and Democracy

On the day we mourn as a nation for the souls at VaTech, it is vital we remember this type of suffering is a daily occurrence within the borders of Iraq. Only a fool or a blatant racist would attribute this suffering to something other than our occupation and rape of this supposedly sovereign country. Our young women and men are giving their lives for what (other than for the comradeship of their fellow soldiers)? If the above is what freedom and democracy look like, then I want no part of it.