We Gave Them Freedom, They Chose Killing

After 8 years of trying to drag them into the present, we finally left it up to the Iraqis, and they've decided to kill each other, instead.

The death toll, just from yesterday:

• six dead after a car bomb in Shia-dominated Kadhimiya, norht of Baghdad
  
• six killed by gunmen at a police checkpoint in the Sarafiya district of the capital
  
• two dead and five injured in an explosion in the western al-Mansour district
  
• two killed and 10 injured in two explosions in Dorat Abo Sheer, southern Baghdad
  
• two killed and nine wounded in an attack by gunmen using weapons with silencers, targeting a police patrol in Saidiya, southern Baghdad
  
• seven injured, most of them policemen, in a blast in al-Madaen, south of Baghdad
  
• five civilians injured in a bomb explosion in Taji, north of Baghdad

By: Brant