Democracy In Doubt Update - 04-18-2007

Doonesbury Highlights Vermont Town's Impeachment Vote
Up in Montpelier today, Vermont's citizen impeachment activists -- memorialized last week in a six-day series of Doonesbury cartoons -- are meeting the last roadblock to their effort to send an impeachment resolution to Congress from the state legislature: the Democratic Leadership. LINK
Gary Treudeau rocks yet again.


58% of Americans Trust Congress More than Bush
In addition, only 35% of those polled think the US will 'win' in Iraq. LINK
Bush is such a hollow man. Such a miserable failure. A complete fraud.

Dollar Continues Downward Plunge
While China sets to become world largest exporter and European markets now have more value than US markets. LINK
Dimson, the Destroyer. Destroyer of countries. Destroyer of wealth.

Baghdad Bombings Kill 157 in Worst Violence Since U.S. `Surge'
April 18 (Bloomberg) -- Car bombings in Baghdad killed at least 157 people in the worst violence in the capital since the U.S. military began a troop ``surge'' two months ago aimed at ending attacks.

A car bomb at a market in the mainly Shiite Muslim district of al-Sadriyah killed at least 127 people and wounded more than 100 others, President Jalal Talabani's Patriotic Union of Kurdistan said in a statement on the party's Web site. The same market was targeted on Feb. 3. in a suicide truck bombing that killed at least 130 people and injured 305.

President George W. Bush ordered almost 30,000 more soldiers and Marines to Iraq to join Iraqi troops to bring security to the capital and the neighboring western province of al-Anbar. The violence has included sectarian attacks by rival Shiite and Sunni Muslim factions and the targeting of coalition and Iraqi forces by insurgents.

Earlier today, a car bomb killed at least 30 people near an Iraqi army checkpoint in the Shiite Sadr City area in eastern Baghdad, Talabani's party said.

Another car bomb in the central Karrada district killed nine people and wounded 15, Iraqi security forces spokesman Brigadier Qasim Ata told state television.

Four police officers and three civilians were killed in separate car bombings in the center and on the western outskirts of Baghdad, Agence France-Presse reported.

In southern Iraq today, National Security Adviser Mowaffaq al-Rubaie said the country's forces will assume control of all 18 provinces by the end of the year. LINK
Will Bush attend any of THESE funerals?

Deadliest Day in Iraq Since 2006
By The Associated Press
© 2007 The Associated Press

— Some of the deadliest days in Iraq since January 2006:

_Nov. 23, 2006: Mortar rounds and five car bombs kill 215 people in Baghdad's Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City.

_March 27, 2007: Truck bombs hit markets in the northwestern city of Tal Afar, killing at least 152 people and wounding more than 150. At least 46 other Iraqis are also killed or found dead, for a total of 198.

_March 6, 2007: Officials report 194 deaths, including 120 by two suicide bombers in a crowd of Shiite pilgrims in Hillah, about 60 miles south of Baghdad.

_March 29, 2007: At least 179 people are killed, including 104 by multiple suicide bombers in the town of Khalis and in predominantly Shiite markets in Baghdad.

_Feb. 3, 2007: Officials report 167 deaths, including 137 by a suicide truck bomber at a market in a predominantly Shiite area of Baghdad.

_April 18, 2007: At least 164 people are killed when four large bombs explode in mostly Shiite locations of Baghdad.

_Nov. 12, 2006: Sectarian violence across the country claims at least 159 lives, including 35 men blown apart while waiting to join Iraq's police force.

_Jan. 16, 2007: Violence throughout Iraq kills 142 people, including 70 in bombings at a university in Baghdad.

_Jan. 22, 2007: Officials report 138 deaths, including 88 by a parked car bomb followed immediately by a suicide car bomber in a predominantly Shiite area in Baghdad. _Feb. 1, 2007: Officials say 138 people are killed nationwide, including 73 who die in two suicide bombers in a crowded market in Hillah.

_Jan. 5, 2006: Suicide bombers infiltrate a line of police recruits and a crowd of Shiite pilgrims in Baghdad as insurgents kill 125 civilians and five U.S. soldiers.

_Dec. 12, 2006: A suicide bomber strikes a crowd of mostly poor Shiites in Baghdad, killing at least 63 people and wounding more than 200. At least 59 other Iraqis are killed or found dead.

_Dec. 2, 2006: A triple car bombing strikes a food market in a predominantly Shiite area in central Baghdad, killing at least 51 and wounding 90. LINK
Saving this for future reference.