Iraq: Truly Terrible

I saw some truly horrific footage from Iraq today on the NBC nightly news. I literally stopped what I was doing, and was taken aback by what I saw. They were covering the triple car bombings, that killed 34 children. Back when Bush sent our troops to war, I think that everyone kindof knew that there would come the part after the major fighting, when attacks were made on US troops. I thought that at its worst, it would be 1 or 2 US deaths per day. And so far, that has pretty much come true (I'm not sure what the daily death toll is).

But what I didn't expect, were Iraqi's attacking Iraqi's. Sure, some of the insurgents may be from other countries, but that alone doesn't explain the violence that I saw on my TV today. If you're purposefully killing children in order to promote your agenda -- I don't care what it is, but it isn't right. I don't understand how anyone in Iraq can support these insurgents. And my only hope is that days like today will jar the country away from the violence, on to the path towards peace and stability.

-Andy.