As Live Earth Plays Iraq Explodes

Raise your hand if you're not a highly paid advisor but you just knew that when Bush escalated in Baghdad that the mass killings would just move somewhere else in Bushopotamia-at least for a while. Maybe where Bloody Donnie Rumsfeld said the WMDs were, "around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat." Today it's the poor souls in Tuz Khormato.

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Yahoo News
Suicide bomb kills over 100 in Iraq

TUZ KHORMATO, Iraq - A suicide truck bomber blasted a Shiite town north of Baghdad on Saturday, killing more than 100 people, police said, in a sign Sunni insurgents are pulling away from a U.S. offensive around the capital to attack where security is thinner.

The marketplace devastation underlined a hard reality in Iraq: There are not enough forces to protect everywhere. U.S. troops, already increased by 28,000 this year, are focused on bringing calm to Baghdad, while the Iraqi military and police remain overstretched and undertrained.

The top U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, told The Associated Press he expected Sunni extremists to try to "pull off a variety of sensational attacks and grab the headlines to create a `mini-Tet.'"