We Cannot Quit.Dubya & Company took us into a war without sufficiently diverse support in a part of the world where Anglo-American unilateralism is in itself cause enough for fanatical insurgents to fight until a bitter end. The administration also took us into a war with almost no plan for winning the "peace." However, we can deal with that in voting booths, but geo-politically we can realistically only deal with the "war" we are in by seeing it through until there is a complete military victory. Anything less would be as bad as leaving Saddam Hussein in despotic power.
BAGHDAD, Oct 27 Bombers struck at least three times in Baghdad at rush hour on Monday morning, killing at least 18 people near a Red Cross building and two police stations.
A blast near an International Committee of the Red Cross building killed 10 people and wounded at least 15, an ICRC official said. One witness said the bomb appeared to have been packed into an ambulance.
In the northeast of the Iraqi capital, a U.S. military policeman said eight people had been killed in a blast near a police station.
There will be updates to this morning's events in Baghdad throughout this day. In the Washington Post...
