The Sons of Bitches Know What They're Doing; they believe we will cut and run.
European Union officials expressed outrage over Monday's string of bombings in Baghdad, particularly a strike against the international Red Cross. But they insisted officials in Iraq had security under control.
It was the bloodiest day in Baghdad since Saddam Hussein's regime fell in April, with at least 39 people, mostly Iraqis, killed in bombings at several police stations and the offices of the International Committee of the Red Cross.
"The situation is not very good but I don't think it is going to get out of control at all," the EU's foreign policy representative, Javier Solana, said before a meeting of foreign ministers in Brussels.
British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw reacted with "shock and outrage at the latest terrorist incident."
"I will just make this clear: We will not be deterred by this kind of outrage," Straw said.
He called the security situation in Baghdad "unsatisfactory" but said "overall the situation across Iraq is getting better."
"The fact that terrorists have yet again targeted not U.S. or U.K. troops but an international organization ... shows the depth of depravity to which they stoop," he said.
France condemned the attacks and said a key to combatting such violence was to restore sovereignty to the country.
"In the face of such acts of violence, it is more urgent than ever to embark on a political process, based on the restoration of Iraqi sovereignty, mobilizing all energy toward the country's reconstruction," said Foreign Ministry spokesman Herve Ladsous.
