Ok, admit it. What was your first thought when you heard about

[TruthIsAll]

the Baghdad U.N. bombing?

This is DU. Its OK. Don't be afraid to tell us what you really think.

[tinnypriv]

1. Wondered about the death toll + Who will be next?

n/t

[this_side_up]

21. In very rapid succession

bin Laden and/or Hussein and/or other nuts followed by
Bush Crime Cartel.

with regard as to who profits that is government and
big business and politicians.

The other one who profits are the Islam nuts. If they
successfully take over Iraq, all those millions hussein
pissed away on palaces, his sons, his army and whatever
else, it will then be spent on whatever it takes for
them to continue the jihad. IOW, we ain't seen nothin' yet
and neither has the rest of the world.

Just think how much money N. Korea could make from selling
whatever the nuts order. That would be enough to make
the morons order a big hit on NK.

They are all friggin' nuts equally insane in their own
way. and I'm not ready for Armageddon yet.

[proud patriot]

2. OMG then Who has the most to gain?

kept running through my head

[Clete]

3. I was rather saddened. These people

didn't deserve it.

[kixot]

4. Iraq now has a fully commited "La Resistance".

The anti-occupation forces are becoming more pronounced, and more organized. This was not the act of a lone madman, this was engineered resistance. God help our poor soldiers.

[Jacobin]

5. They really don't want us occupying their country

and they don't care which country the infidels come from and they are suggesting rather strongly that we all get the fuck out of Iraq.

[ewagner]

6. Troubled and confused

Troubled because the UN folks had no part in the combat and didn't deserve to be targeted.

Confused because the bombing of the Jordanian Embassy, Shelling of the prison and the bombing of UN headquarters don't seem to make any sense at all. Why would Ba'athists, or Saddam loyalist try to kill people who are and have been their allies?

It still doesn't make sense.

[TruthIsAll]

9. Think, pal, think...who gains?

...

[madrchsod]

10. confusing??

this morning someone on the news thought it maybe some of those pesky islamists from saudi arabia. he pointed out that the saudi`s have easy access to iraq...yes it doesn`t make sense untill we know the players

[Ouabache]

7. I thought it was obviously done by well organized terrorists

who felt threatened by the UN for some reason.

[Keithpotkin]

8. i knew it was an illuminati plot from the get-go

:tinfoilhat: but then i took off the tin foil, and realized it was just another bombing....or was it..........:tinfoilhat:

[tedoll78]

11. Why attack the UN?

The UN didn't vote to go to war with Iraq.

If the terrorists should be attacking anyone, it would be more logical for them to attack agents of the United States.. not the principled organization that refused to legitimize the invasion and occupation of Iraq.

The terrorists' "logic" confused me more than anything else. I want no bloodshed on any side of the equation, but if someone were to ask me if the terrorists were more likely to attack the U.S. or the U.N., I would've confidently predicted the U.S.

also: I'm tired of war. Of death. I want relative peace and calm and prosperity again. I wonder how long this will last. How long the G.O.P. will continue to exploit disaster and fear for raw political ambitions. So discouraged.

[Section_43]

12. I really thought: "OK, not wanting the U.N. to

share in the "glory" is one thing but, my God!

[Jacobin]

13. Because the UN is also presumptious enough to think they need to

come help the muslims build their country.

They are ALL infidels to Iraqis!!! Just because WE like the UN and just because they might help (in our opinion), maybe the Iraqis have had enough fucking "help" from the west and they want all our lilly white asses out of their country!!

What's so hard to understand about that???

[wtmusic]

15. Possible it was a mistake

Iraqis saw Westerners going in and out and thought it was an American post. Most likely more lightly defended than other posts, so a good target.

[lynndew2]

28. It flew the UN flag...they knew it was the UN

[Kat 333]

14. My first thought was...

the same "first thought" when hearing of the attack on the Jordanian Embassy. The US would be as likely a suspect as anyone. Did Bush not make himself perfectly clear ? Those who are not "with us are against us". One can't forget Bush & Company are a bunch of Sick, Sick, boys.

[KTM]

16. You know what I thought

:tinfoilhat:

NOW BushCo will get some UN support... slimy bastards.

[Ediacara]

17. Ya... that war is SURE reducing terrorism....

was what I thought.

[Dover]

18. I think it was probably Bushco or the Israelis

They both have the most to gain...though it may not be playing in the press the way they'd like (press is suggesting this proves we are in over our heads). And it took out the HEAD of the UN in Iraq (humanitarian programs). I have no reservations in placing Bushco at the top of any suspicious activity list.


So interesting that none of the Bushco crowd are ever victims in these "terrorist" attacks. Why is that? It seems they'd be the most likely targets of terrorists.

Here's the latest response from the UN (from the AP wire):

The United Nations went into post-war Iraq with more trepidation than usual there was little security, the United States had waged a war without U.N. backing and relations with Washington were at an all-time low.

The strains led the U.N. Security Council to authorize a loosely defined mission which was forced to work with the U.S.-led occupation. The cooperation and a dependence on U.S. security may have compromised U.N. neutrality, many suggested.

But Tuesday's bombing, which took the lives of at least 20 people at the U.N.'s Baghdad headquarters, may have cost the organization even more. For the first time, U.N. employees, willing to brave war and disease to help the world's needy, demanded the United Nations leave Iraq and spoke angrily about having gone there in the first place.

In a statement, the U.N. Staff Council's security committee called on Secretary- General Kofi Annan "to suspend all operations in Iraq and withdraw its staff until such time as measures can be taken to improve security..

[LearnedHand]

19. Absolute first thought:

"What the hell did THEY do to the BFEE?"

(no lie; pretty sad, no?)

[Dover]

20. Okay TruthIsAll, let's hear YOUR theory.................n/t

...

[TruthIsAll]

24. Ok, here it is: Bush wagged the stick at the lap dogs, and once again

those bird-brained coincidence theories ain't worth a plumb nickel...

[stickdog]

22. Means, motive and opportunity

The primary suspect is blatantly obvious.

[ConsAreLiars]

23. OMFG: Those Evil Bastards!

More blood on the hands of the soulless golem who now run our country.

LIHOP?

MIHOP?

Accidental collateral damage of the sort to be expected when policy is made by delusional psychopaths?

A cunning plot by the BFEE to further demonize Moslems?

Who the F cares. They did it, and 12 or 20 more innocents are slaughtered. Add their faces to those shown here: http://www.robert-fisk.com/iraqwarvictims_mar2003.htm (warning: truth-telling pictures).

[RummyTheDummy]

25. The CIA did it.

NT

[dansolo]

26. Chalabi

I think he was involved somehow.

[MisterP]

27. nooooooo! openness on DU will make everyone laugh at us and the dems lose!

:crazy:

[leftofthedial]

29. I thought, "Welcome to America's West Bank."

We are in for a long unpleasant stay.

And we don't have nearly enough troops for the PNAC plan.

And every Westerner in the ME is going to pay for Bushco's greed.

And America and Americans will pay for this for generations to come.

Andoh those poor people, who didn't deserve this, and their families.