April is usually a pretty deadly month to be an Iraqi. Whether it's the warmer/drier weather or something else, the month is just unusually violent. Tomorrow is the first day of April, and the bad guys decided to welcome it by blowing up a bomb so large it flattened 100 houses and killed 150 people outright.
It all happened in a city that recently had an explosion of violence so bad the POLICE were running around killing people. I think the only way to stop it from spreading is a massive military presence and enforced curfew to allow people to breathe and get out of the killing cycle.
I don't really know what to say. Some of the more dark humored people (you have to be a little dark humored at times to be here by choice) say things like "Well that's less insurgents we'll have to deal with later". I dunno though.. this may be a tipping point event.
For the record it's all quiet around here though. I start to wonder, sometimes, why they don't just say "Bag it all. Let's divide into three federal states Sunni/Shia/Kurd, split the revenues from the oil somehow and be done with it." The core truth seems to be that the bad guys just will not live peacably with others and they keep trying to drag the rest of the populace into their killing lifestyle.
Regards,
-Bouncer-
2 comments:
Oh, wow, bad day at Bag Roc.
No april foolin on that. Watched seals surfin at RudE isle, while standing in violation of all post its on the rock wall out in the ocean holding empty crab nets and grinnin from ear to ear. Saved the day at the depo and came away with a new butterfly for the outhouse to add to your collection.
Turtle
Got a possum in the out house! Hangin around on the pin ball machine and poopin on the desktop. Oh, what a horrible site. You might even wish they had never been born......The TV seems to have a life of its own. It turns itself on at will.
In celebration of the cherry blossom festival we are chopping down the pine trees growing on the patio and using them to break in the grill for spring. PS. anytime you want bats in the belfry just set the welcome mat out....
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