Though I tend to disagree with her from policy perspective, I can’t disagree with Condoleezza Rice’s call that today’s bombing in Baghdad represents a form of “bankruptcy and brutality“:

Iraqi security officials said the women were mentally impaired, but offered no conclusive evidence. The Iraqi officials said the bombs were set off by remote control. […]

“We were just talking about the first bomb when it happened,” said Abbas Muhammad Awad, 54, a pigeon seller. “There was not enough time for people to leave because it was only 5 or 10 minutes between the bombs. Many kids were killed because children usually gather around the bird sellers.”

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