‘Real News From The Blaze’: Suicide Bombing in Iraq Reminds U.S. of Difficulties in the Region
- Posted on June 4, 2012 at 9:07pm by
Christopher Santarelli
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A huge suicide bombing in Iraq Monday killed as many as 26 and injured up to 190, reminding the U.S. with a single act of bloody violence that many of the problems left behind in Iraq are still unsolved. Reuters reports on the attack reminiscent of Iraq’s al Qaeda affiliate:
The bombing on a Shi’ite religious office comes at a sensitive time, with the country‘s fractious Shi’ite, Sunni and Kurdish blocs locked in a crisis that threatens to unravel their power-sharing deal and spill into sectarian tensions.
The attacker targeted the Shi’ite Endowment – a government-run body that manages Shi’ite religious and cultural sites – leaving dead and wounded along a main street nearby and blasting part of its headquarters to rubble, police said.
The attack comes as the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is set to consider the nomination of the president’s pick for ambassador to Iraq, an important one given the lack of confidence the Iraqi’s have in their Prime Minister. On “Real News” Monday The Blaze’s National Security Editor Buck Sexton discussed the violence still going on in Iraq, and the effect instability in the country can have on the United States’s relations with Iran. Sexton notes that the way Iraq has progressed could serve as a cautionary tale in examining how the United States should approach other tumultuous nations in the region, like Syria or Egypt. Here‘s a clip from Monday’s show:
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Bodysnatcher
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 5:26pmI was told the war on terror was over, what did I miss?
Report Post »bmel
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 10:42pmI thought the “anointed one”,had declared the war in Iraq to be over.
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 3:16amBring all of our personnel home, our toys, and keep our money HERE. Let these people sort out their own mess; then we will deal with the victors.
Report Post »This can be done if we drill here and drill now,
discus02
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 12:23amJust who are the loonies that want us to get involved in Iran. Let these bloodsuckers kill themselves.
Report Post »NOBALONEY
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 9:56pmPM Maliki’s days are numbered.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 10:10pmYep, he’ll be hanging from a Baghdad lamp post soon.
Report Post »Mutiny
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 9:45pmPull out of all of these hell holes. Stop giving aid, money, and security. Let them kill each other and eat sand. Once we are energy independent they will have nothing, problem solved.
Report Post »PETTYDRAMA
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 9:43pmSoon enough Beck will convince his mindless drones to suicide bomb the whitehouse before Obama can before Obama is sworn in for his second term,
Report Post »possom
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 9:37pm$^& Iran, bring our men and women home and let the sand monkey’s kill each other!
Report Post »possom
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 9:45pmAnd before anyone say’s the story is about iraq I know their all the same to me!
Report Post »Bruce P.
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 9:33pmWait…there was a suicide bombing in Iraq?! That cannot be right! Obama ended the war in Iraq! He’s the Peace President! Sarah Jessica Parker said so!
Report Post »RightPolitically
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 9:33pmWhat a disgrace our involvement in Iraq has been. All those American lives, limbs, eyes and what have you. For what? For this? All of these religious fanatic Muslims can continue to kill one another with abandon for all I care. They’re animals, they‘re insane Seventh Century throwbacks and there isn’t a damn thing we can do about it!
Report Post »Bruce P.
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 9:34pmRIGHTPOLITICALLY — they are going to revoke your conservative membership card if you don’t start unquestionably supporting the war.
Report Post »RightPolitically
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 9:44pm@ BRUCE P: I never thought going into Iraq made sense. Yeah, they had us all worked up at the time and look where that has gotten U.S. That entire region will soon revert back to what it has always been, a mess. It pains me to admit this, but Obama (one of his only smart moves) has the right idea with the drones…….. Drown ‘em in drones!
Report Post »Bruce P.
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 10:22pmRIGHTPOLITICALLY — unrestricted drone warfare is a horrible idea. Not only is Obama using them to assassinate American citizens without due process but it desensitizes to war. This is not to say I want to see American soldiers in harms way (I don’t. Bring them home; stop being the military-arm of Saudi Arabia) but Americans don’t care if it is robot in danger. The less we care, the less oversight we have of our leaders in their war-making.
Report Post »RightPolitically
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 7:59am@BRUCE P: You make some very valid points about oversight and desensitization but I totally disagree with you on the “due process” issue. When a person, citizen or not, takes up arms against his own country, that individual has declared war on it. Having done so, that person is a warring soldier who loses his right to due process in my opinion. Unless our constitution states otherwise, that is how it has to be.
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