"I'm Dying, I'm Dying"

An Arab reporter dies on camera, and about 60 more die off camera. The mission accomplished in Iraq continues to be a relentless nightmare of Bush's creating.

Surge of Baghdad Violence Leaves 60 Dead

Insurgents hammered central Baghdad on Sunday with one of their most intense mortar and rocket barrages ever in the heart of the capital, heralding a day of violence that killed nearly 60 people nationwide as security appeared to spiral out of control.

At least 37 people were killed in Baghdad alone. Many of them died when a U.S. helicopter fired on a disabled U.S. Bradley fighting vehicle as Iraqis swarmed around it, cheering, throwing stones and waving the black and yellow sunburst banner of Iraq's most-feared terror organization.

The dead from the helicopter strike included Arab television reporter Mazen al-Tumeizi, who screamed, "I'm dying, I'm dying," as a cameraman recorded the chaotic scene. An Iraqi cameraman working for the Reuters news agency and an Iraqi freelance photographer for Getty Images were wounded.

Maimed and lifeless bodies of young men and boys lay in the street as the stricken U.S. vehicle was engulfed in flames and thick black smoke.

Across the country, the death toll Sunday was at least 59, according to figures from the Health Ministry, the Multinational Force command and local authorities.

Nearly 200 people were wounded, more than half of them in Baghdad.

And this is a major step in ridding the world of terrorists...HOW?

LINK - Tawhid and Jihad, a militant group linked to Al Qaeda and led by Jordanian terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, said it carried out Sunday's co-ordinated campaign of violence in Baghdad.

In an Internet statement, the group boasted that it holds the initiative in the Iraqi insurgency and possesses the "capability to surprise the enemy and hit its strategic installations at the right time and place."

The statement's source could not be verified, but the scope and intensity of the attacks raised serious questions about the state of security, which has deteriorated since the June 28 transfer of sovereignty to the interim Iraqi government.

Do we have to say this? THIS IS AN UTTER FAILURE IN FIGHTING THE PEOPLE WHO ATTACKED US ON 9/11. WE remember 9/11 you pinheads. When are YOU going to do something about it besides bringing death and chaos to non-involved countries and fear in your own people?

Jesus, sorry for the outburst. Apparently some people just don't see the obvious.


Hang your head in shame, punk...