The Evil Of Our Enemy

Gotta agree with Bob Owens on this one here, how the mighty have fallen:

Two women thought to suffer from Down’s syndrome may have been unwilling suicide bombers in twin blasts that killed up to 73 people at pet markets in Baghdad today.

The first bomber instantly killed 45 people at a packed pet market in Baghdad in the deadliest attack in the Iraqi capital in six months.

A separate attack shortly after killed 20 people and wounded scores at a bird market in southern Baghdad…

…The chief Iraqi military spokesman in Baghdad, Brigadier General Qassim al-Moussawi, claimed the female bombers apparently had Down’s syndrome and the explosives were detonated by remote control, indicating the women may not have been willing attackers, according to his office.

Bolstering that claim, local police said the woman in the first attack sold cream in the morning at the market and was known to locals as “the crazy lady”.

Police initially said the bomb at al-Ghazil market was hidden in a box of birds but determined it was a suicide attack after finding the woman’s head, an officer said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorised to release the information.

A despicable and horrible act for sure, but this acts tells us just how desperate this enemy of ours has become. They can’t find any willing martyrs to meet those virgins anymore, hell…it appears they couldn’t even kidnap someone to do the evil deed. Instead they find two retarded women to unknowingly blow innocent men, women and children up.

Bob points us to some of the leftist rhetoric after the bombing:

How’s your surge, Mr. Oil Crony president?

It’s not working so hot for Iraqis.

But Exxon seems to think it’s peachy. I wonder if they plan to send flowers and a thank you note to the families of the 3943 US troops who died to make Exxon richer than 2/3rds of the planet’s countries.

How many troops per gallon does your car get?

and:

I’ve never understood how people were lulled into thinking the surge really succeeded in establishing security in Iraq. It seemed rather apparent, even to my under-schooled eyes, that the surge was a gimmick. It reminded me of those bait and switch promotions that unscrupulous retailers used to engage in. The surge raised the violence to greater levels and then lowered the numbers with artificial manipulatons [sic] to a level that had been judged unacceptable when the surge began. But all that too many Americans seemed to notice was that the levels dropped. For some reson[sic], the relative metrics just didn’t register.

Yup, thats it. The surge is all a gimmick. Nothing is really better in Iraq, its all lies. Sigh…..

Violence is way down, even with these latest bombings. Our troops casualty rates have plummeted. The Sunni’s are now fighting AQ. All evidence that the surge is indeed working.

Thats more then likely the reason AQ has gotten this desperate. Bob Owens:

First, it tells us that al Qaeda in Iraq recognizes that attempts to use male suicide bombers and vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices (VBIEDs), their preferred method of suicide attacks for those seeking martyrdom, are no longer effective. These attacks fail because the combination of coalition military forces, Iraqi security forces, and neighborhood militias, known as “concerned local citizens” (CLCs) creating a security system that increasingly works, and makes it very unlikely that these preferred attacks will succeed. There is also some speculation that the influx of would-be foreign suicide bombers into Iraq is drying up.

Today’s attacks also tell us that al Qaeda in Iraq is getting very desperate in seeking the high-casualty attacks that they so value. They were forced to scrape the bottom of the proverbial barrel, and use not only women (which they’d prefer to subjugate), but mentally disabled women at that, suggesting that finding willing volunteers is becoming ever more difficult.

These attacks today serve to show that al Qaeda in Iraq is not quite finished, but then, that is something we already knew. What is does show us is just how desperate they are to retain relevance in a war that is going very badly for them.

After this incident you would think that reasonable people would understand and acknowledge just how evil and depraved our enemy is. Instead they use it to try and reinforce their longing for a US defeat in Iraq.

Curt

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