At least 36 people were killed across Iraq as Bush swaggered around

KIRKUK, Iraq (AFP) - At least 36 people were killed across
Iraq, including 18 in a bombing campaign in the oil city of Kirkuk, as US
President George W. Bush made a surprise five-hour visit to Baghdad.

The first car bomb exploded at around 7:30 am (0330 GMT) in the Tisaeen market in an area largely inhabited by Shiite members of the city's Turkmen community, killing 13 people, including two policemen, and wounding 18.

Approximately half an hour later, a suicide car bomber attempted to ram the main police headquarters, prompting police to open fire on it. The car exploded before reaching its target, police Major General Torhan Yussef said, but two policemen died and eight civilians were wounded.

The three other car bombs, one of which was a suicide attack, exploded in different parts of the city, killing three more policemen and wounding more than a dozen, including Colonel Taher Salah al-Din, police chief in the southern Hurriyah neighborhood.

full report: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060613/wl_mideast_afp/iraq


my 2 cents: http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_ron_full_060613_escalation_masquerad.htm">Escalation Masquerade (6-12-2006)

security detail to protect them. The man has absolutely no sense of decency. Where is Judge Welch when you need him.

What a lying weasel.

PM Wants to Deploy 75,000 in Baghdad

Tuesday, June 13, 2006 - BAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraqi security forces planned to deploy tens of thousands of soldiers in Baghdad Wednesday as part of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's ambitious plan to crack down on security in the capital, a top Iraqi police official said.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,199256,00.html

he gave him FIVE MINUTES notice of their meeting! How would you like to walk into the most important meeting of your life with 5 mins. heads up? The guy looks like a deer in the headlights on TV.

if there were any advance notice, I'm sure the insurgents could have doubled or tripled that number.