Scores Dead in Iraq Car Bombing - Where is the Mission Accomplished?

The Chimperator was delusional in many ways, but the Iraq War fiasco and his huburistic "Mission Accomplished" stunt still have to take the prize for lunacy in most ways. Iraq continues to be a fiasco, thousands of young Americans have lost their lives, and the nation has squandered billions and billions of dollars on a war that should never have occurred. Meanwhile, Afghanistan is a disaster as well because Bush and Emperor Palpatine Cheney went after the wrong target. Yet Cheney has the audacity to criticize Obama for the mess he was handed by the failed Bush/Cheney regime. I continue to dream about the day when Cheney is put on trial for war crimes - it may never happen, but it clearly should. Here are highlights from Al Jazeera on the latest slaughter in Iraq:

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Two car bombs in central Baghdad have killed at least 132 people and wounded more than 550 others, police sources have told Al Jazeera. The blasts went off less than a minute apart on Sunday, near the ministry of justice and the headquarters of the Baghdad provincial administration close to the Tigris river. Firefighters pulled charred and mangled bodies off the streets near the provincial government building while burnt-out cars were piled up at the blast site. There were so many wounded that civilian cars were pressed into service to bring the casualties to area hospitals.

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The timing of the attack has raised suspicion because Iraq's political leaders were set to meet later on Sunday to resolve a dispute which could lead to a delay in elections scheduled for January. Nuri al-Maliki, the Iraqi prime minister, said that if there was a delay "the government ... and parliament will lose its legitimacy, that there would be a return to sectarianism".

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Ahmed Rushdi, an Iraqi analyst, said that pointing to al-Qaeda and elements from the Baath Party, the party of Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi leader overthrown in the 2003 US invasion, was an electoral strategy. "Al-Maliki represents the Dawa party, which is [from] the Shia majority, and we have elections in January. He will say ... 'I'm going to protect you from al-Qaeda and pro-Baathists'," he told Al Jazeera. "It's always al-Qaeda and pro-Baathist [elements that are blamed]. There is no talking about security infiltration, or the security failures in the Iraqi government."

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"This sends two messages, one of them is to the investment conference in Washington held just a few days ago as if to tell investors not to come to Iraq ... At the same time I think it may be a message to the meeting today of the political council of national security," he said. "They're trying to solve the problems concerning the elections law. I hope this will urge them to work more than before to solve this problem."

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The reality is that I don't see the puppet government installed by Bush/Cheney ever succeeding. The USA needs to cut its loses and get the Hell out of Iraq.