AP reports: “A suicide bomber driving a truck loaded with a ton of explosives hidden beneath cooking oil, canned food and bags of flour obliterated a Baghdad food market on Saturday, killing at least 121 people in one of the most fearsome attacks in the capital since the U.S. invasion in 2003.”

U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad said the bombing was “an example of what the forces of evil will do to intimidate the Iraqi people.”

Is anybody listening? Liberals shrug, but wring their hands over Darfur. And Democrats pray with Imams.

“We don’t allow big trucks in the market, but the driver convinced us that he had food to deliver for a shop. Once he got inside, he detonated the bomb,” said Kamil Ibrahim, a 36-year-old vegetable vendor at the entrance to the market district.

In Jihad, there’s nothing sacred. No rules of engagement.

In the Baghdad blast, Maj. Gen. Jihad al-Jabiri of the Iraqi Interior Ministry said one ton of explosives ripped through the Sadriyah market.

“There are still bodies under the rubble,” he said. In an outburst of frustration and anger he called for the government to “deport (non-Iraqi) Arabs immediately.”

Amazing what carnage of innocent people will make you think. Racial profiling? What will we say if/when it happens in America? It can be prevented.

Wake up.

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   Pingback by 121 killed as Baghdad market obliterated at Conservative Times--Republican GOP news source. — February 4, 2007 @ 12:12 pm

1. It has happened in the United States. Don’t you remember the Ryder truck exploding in Oklahoma City in 1995? Of course, Tim McVeigh was white, christian, a registered Republican, and an NRA member while he was in the army. He doesn’t fit the profile.

   Comment by KnightErrant — February 4, 2007 @ 12:18 pm

2. Yes, good point. 12 years ago. Nothing since, except for 9/11. We must remain vigilant.

   In Iraq, the bombings occur weekly. In some cases, daily. It’s much different. Imagine if the streets and markets were like that in America.

   Imagine if Israel didn’t enforec their border, what do you think would happen?

   Unlike America, they’re willing to forgoe the shallow rhetoric of political correctness in defense of their nation’s existence.

   Just like America, Israel is a magnet for many who wish to destroy it, physically, racially, and culturally.

   They won’t let it happen. Will we?

   Comment by Bob Reynolds — February 5, 2007 @ 9:32 am