CNN REPORTS: IRAQ BOMBINGS KILLS 6,WOUNDS 50: McCAIN AND PALIN KEEP SAYING "WE ARE WINNING THE WAR"

It remains a shame the mainstream media doesn't CHALLENGE John McCain and Sarah Palin on how they can keep on saying we are "winning the war in Iraq" when incidents like the following are happening every single day in Iraq.

The "surge" was a total joke and anyone who has ever been in the military knows the United States military didn't do anything or you would have been reading about the body count of dead Al Qaeda or insurgents.

The Sunni Awakening and other Iraq tribal leaders ran Al Qaeda and the insurgents out of their provinces while the U.S. military stood GUARD.

McCain and Palin continue to LIE, LIE, LIE to the American public about the "surge" and not a single reporter has the guts to ask them where are all the bodies of dead Al Qaeda and insurgents if this was such a big U.S. military victory.

This is now the only military victory in the history of the world where no dead bodies of the enemy have ever been found.

Comment by BILL CORCORAN, editor of CORKSPHERE


Deadly Iraq bombings target market, politician

Story Highlights
Saturday car bombing in busy Tal Afar outdoor market kills 6, wounds 50
Bombing follows attack on politician Ahmed Chalabi; he survives but 6 killed
Tal Afar was scene of May crackdown on Sunni insurgents
Violence happening during Islam's holy month of Ramadan

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/09/06/iraq.main/index.html

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- At least six people were killed and 50 wounded in a suicide car bombing Saturday at an outdoor market in northern Iraq, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official said.
The midday attack in Tal Afar, about 45 miles west of Mosul in Nineveh province, was carried out less than a day after a car bombing in western Baghdad that targeted Shiite politician Ahmed Chalabi.

The car bombing hit the same market in Tal Afar where a car bombing last month killed more than two dozen people and wounded scores, police said.

Iraqi officials said at least six people, including five from Chalabi's entourage, were killed in Friday's attack in Baghdad. Chalabi was not harmed, Iraq's Interior Ministry said.

Nine of Chalabi's guards or drivers were among the 17 wounded, the ministry said. The rest of the casualties were civilians, it said.

Chalabi is a controversial Iraqi politician best known outside the country for providing false intelligence to the U.S. government on the presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The intelligence was cited, in part, as the justification for the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.

A deputy prime minister for a time after the invasion, Chalabi is now head of a committee overseeing the activities of former members of deposed President Saddam Hussein's Baath Party.

Also on Friday, Defense Ministry adviser Abdul Amir Hassan was driving near his home in east Baghdad when he was shot to death by attackers using guns equipped with silencers.

The violence comes as Muslims observe the holy month of Ramadan, a time when markets are busier than usual with people shopping for food and other items in preparation for the breaking of the daily fast at dusk.

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