Here we go again... (Iraq)

The Iraqi government on Saturday gave its first official reckoning of the truck bombing Tuesday in the northern city of Tal Afar, putting the death toll at 152 people, a number about double that in early reports.

The bombing, which left 347 other people in a poor Shiite neighborhood wounded, set off a wave of reprisals by Shiite policemen and others that left another 47 people dead and shattered the image of Tal Afar held up by American politicians last year as a model of a turbulent city turned peaceful.

This Iraqi war is looking more and more like Vietnam every day. It seems that the war is not against the Iraqi government, but instead against the Iraqi people themselves. It is similar to how in the Vietnam War men, women, and children were all targets.