they're NOT 'bordering' on the absurd

king george and his court ARE the absurd. the news as well as the situation is getting worse and worse with each passing moment. we as a country must wake up and bring our women and men home NOW.

Dozens Of Iraqis Killed in Reprisals
River Towns Trade Sectarian Strikes As Militias Move In


By Ellen Knickmeyer and Muhanned Saif AldinWashington Post Foreign ServiceMonday, October 16, 2006; Page A01
BAGHDAD, Oct. 15 -- Militias allied with Iraq's Shiite-led government roamed roads north of Baghdad, seeking out and attacking Sunni Arab targets Sunday, police and hospital officials said. The violence raised to at least 80 the number of people killed in retaliatory strikes between a Shiite city and a Sunni town separated only by the Tigris River.
The wave of killings around the Shiite city of Balad was the bloodiest in a surge of violence that has claimed at least 110 lives in Iraq since Saturday. The victims included 12 people who were killed in coordinated suicide bombings in the strategic northern oil city of Kirkuk........



....In Washington, Anthony Cordesman, an analyst for the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said by telephone: "If you total up the number of people that are being killed, that are being wounded, that are being displaced and are being forced to leave the country, and the zones in which there is major civil conflict . . . trying to declare there isn't a civil war borders on the absurd.".....