300 casualties in Iraq bombings

The Washington Times and Associated Press report a series of four coordinated attacks in Baghdad which has caused at least 300 casualties this morning;

At least 103 were killed and 197 wounded in the worst wave of violence in the capital in more than a month, authorities said.

A total of four attacks, which also included a suicide car bomb on a police patrol, showed the ability of insurgents to strike high-profile targets in the heart of Baghdad and marked the third time since August that government buildings were targeted with multiple blasts that brought massive bloodshed.

It also was another embarrassment to Iraqi forces in their expanding role as front-line security as U.S. forces plan their withdrawal.

I’m pretty sure this attack was intended to embarrass the Iraqi government and to prove that terrorists in Iraq have more staying power than the US. USAToday reports a bomb which killed 12 detonated near a Pakistani intelligence office;

The bombing in Multan signaled a relentless determination on the part of the militants, who — despite being pressured by a major army offensive in one of their Afghan border havens — have sustained a retaliatory campaign since October that has killed more than 400 people. On Monday, bombings elsewhere in the country killed 59 people.

I’d say these bombings are directly related to the Obama Administration’s 94-day decision period on the Afghan Surge and ultimately the president’s weak response to his generals. If the bombers didn’t think they see an opening and a chance to win the wars, these bombings wouldn’t have happened.

Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Terror War