Suicide bomber kills over 100 in Iraq

If you follow the news at all you've probably already heard about this, but it's worth a mention here, I think. From the AP via the Houston Chronicle:

HILLAH, Iraq — A suicide car bomber blasted a crowd of police and national guard recruits today as they gathered for physicals outside a medical clinic south of Baghdad, killing at least 115 people and wounding 132 — the single deadliest attack in the two-year insurgency.

Torn limbs and other body parts littered the street outside the clinic in Hillah, a predominantly Shiite area about 60 miles south of Baghdad.

Today's blast outside the clinic was so powerful it nearly vaporized the suicide bomber's car, leaving only its engine partially intact. The injured were piled into pickup trucks and ambulances and taken to nearby hospitals.

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As Atrios noted a few days ago, things haven't exactly been going well over there since the election that was supposed to bring "democracy" to Iraq. It's clear that the insurgency sees the new government as being collaborators, and my bet is that they will never, ever, ever give up until Iraq is no longer an occupied nation. So we should leave. Right now.

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