US condemns Christmas attacks that kill 37 Christians in Iraq

[Faygo Kid]

Source: Los Angeles Times

The State Department condemned twin Christmas Day attacks on Christians in Iraq that killed at least 37 people.

One car bomb, which killed at least 26 people, went off near a church in the Dora neighborhood of Baghdad during Christmas Mass. Another bomb exploded in an outdoor market in another nearby Christian neighborhood, killing 11.

The U.S. embassy in Baghdad said the Christian community in Iraq “has suffered deliberate and senseless targeting by terrorists for many years, as have other Iraqis.” It said it “condemns in the strongest terms” the attacks.

No group claimed responsibility for the attacks, but terrorist groups such as Al Qaeda are widely believed responsible for most of the attacks on Christians. Their goal, experts believe, is to drive out the remaining Christians and sharpen ethnic tensions. . .

Read more: http://www.latimes.com/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-us-christmas-attacks-christians-iraq-20131225,0,7194958.story#axzz2oWD4fa7m

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Thank you, Bush, Cheney et al for making Iraq such a haven for peace and justice. And I'm sure all of us at DU wish you the same Merry Christmas you gave to the world in 2003.

[itsrobert]

1. Does the US State Department only care when Christians die when it comes to Iraq?

n/t

[hrmjustin]

9. No they always condemn violence in Iraq.

[liberalmike27]

12. Right

Yea, I'm sure they feel so much better off without Saddam, when this sort of thing wasn't happening. No, it wasn't perfect before, not nearly. But it wasn't random explosions in the street.

I just wish they'd stop pretending we did them such a big favor. It's all BS hype anyway--our purposes had NOTHING to do with helping Iraqis with anything.

[hrmjustin]

13. You won't get an argument from me that the war was wrong.

I do think the state department does condemn these violent incidents equally.

[Botany]

2. Thanx w, Cheney, Rummy, Rice, Powell, Wolfowitz, Card, Libby, Fox News, ....

.... and so many more for the never ending civil war in a country that had nothing to do
w/ 9-11, or was a threat to this country.

People need to be in jail for what they did.

[Amonester]

11. I guess we can't count on the US State Department to condemn these fucksticks.

So let's all look forward for the next ones...

[indepat]

3. May we all condemn all killing, be it Christians, Muslims, Jews or those of any ethnicity or other

religion.

[msongs]

4. let's start a new crusade and send sarah palin over there with a microphone nt

[Comrade Grumpy]

5. That could be just the thing to unite all factions. n/t

[grahamhgreen]

6. Someday we will condemn the entire war.

[cosmicone]

7. All liberal media propaganda

afterall, GW Bush liberated those ungrateful people from a WMD wielding dictator and gave them freedom and democracy!

[hrmjustin]

8. the violence in Iraq is so heartbreaking.

[burnsei sensei]

10. We need say no more than it is wrong

to have some effect.
Where the violence is inter-religious or sectarian, usually the perpetrators are under the impression that they are doing something right.
To simply disabuse them of the notion can go far.
To condemn the violence is spitting into the wind.