I read on page 16 of the paper this morning that 150 people have died in 4 days in Iraq. Iraq, people……keep your eye on the ball. All this talk of terrorist plots and terror terror terror is to get you to take your eye off the ball. The big fat Iraq ball!!! 40 U.S. troops have died in 17 days. 168 U.S. troops wounded so far this month. One U.S. soldier captured or missing on September 14th. Oh, and let’s not forget that other ball…..Afghanistan, where things are spiralling downward. This should be on the front page of every American newspaper. What was on the front of my newspaper this morning??? “Chavez’s hostility alarming to Jews.”

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A suicide truck bomb exploded in the city of Kirkuk in Iraq’s Kurdish north Sunday in an attack that left at least 18 people dead and another 55 wounded, police said.

A gunman sitting beside the suicide bomber opened fire on civilians before the truck slammed into the city’s criminal court and exploded, said police Brig. Sarhat Qadir. At least 18 people were killed and 55 were wounded in the attack in the center of Kirkuk, 180 miles north of Baghdad, police said.BAGHDAD, Iraq - A suicide truck bomb exploded in the city of Kirkuk in Iraq’s Kurdish north Sunday in an attack that left at least 18 people dead and another 55 wounded, police said.

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