You beat me to it by just a few minutes.

Not only has Soothie been thrown out on his ass over at AJ’s, his multiple sock personas have been thrown out with him.

If you are familiar with posters at AJ’s Strata-sphere, note, that one is no longer there, for good reason.

And you wingnut ladies can join in with “My Right-Wing Husband Gives Me an Orgasm EVERY TIME Day”!

Shoot, you all can even get the celebrating started four years early with “Palin/Joe the Plumber 2012 Landslide Victory Day”!

Oh, bullshit.

You miss the glaringly obvious point that the victims are all Iraqis.

I’ll leave it as an exercise for the class to figure out why this is important.

You first, sanitas.

Perhaps suicide bombing are, but these are on the rise.

(Reuters) – Iraqi and U.S. officials are concerned about an apparent surge in “sticky bombs,” explosives fixed to vehicles with magnets or glue, as a tactic for assassinating Iraqi officials.

The use of such small explosives by Sunni insurgents and Shi’ite militiamen is not a new phenomenon in more than five years of war in Iraq.

But U.S. and Iraqi security officials are paying renewed attention on the bombs in the last two months, especially in the capital Baghdad.

“It seems we have had an uptick, 21 sticky bombs in the last month of October (in Iraq),” U.S. military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Steven Stover said.

This is the fourth the fourth consecutive day of rising violence in Baghdad.

The violence came as Iraqi lawmakers prepared for a vote Wednesday on a security pact with the United States that would enable American forces to stay in Iraq for up to three more years under strict Iraqi oversight.

The irony here, is that if insurgents and shiite supporters of Moqtada al-Sadr want U.S. and Coalition forces to leave, all that needs to happen is for the violence to melt away. If that bombing was meant to influence Iraqi lawmakers, don’t you think it’d influence all to support the SOFA?

Personally I didn’t think “Victory Day” was a great idea; there’s a lot of room here for egg on our face. But since it was organized by Gathering of Eagles, many conservative blogs, and the desire to boost morale and show appreciation for the hard-won efforts of our military and coalition forces when every day has been declared “defeat day” by msm, might as well move with the herd and lend support.

Iraq isn’t going to be perfect for a long, long time. That said, these suicide bombings are happening less and less frequently. If all the media does is telegraph it to create the impression that there’s still an epidemic problem, it undermines confidence and it plays right into the hands of the enemy who want to create big splashes in media headlines; to still be relevant; to sabotage reconstruction efforts and the will of the Iraqis and Americans.

What is important and what is victory, is that we get to a point where Iraq is strong enough to defend itself and take on the grunt work and brunt work. They are already doing much of this, with U.S. forces in support position, rather than in the lead.

Iraqi bomber was mentally disabled woman

BAGHDAD, Nov. 24 (UPI) — One of two bombers who struck in Baghdad Monday was a mentally disabled woman whose explosives were detonated by remote control, officials said.

Brig. Gen. Qassim Atta, an Iraqi military spokesman, told CNN the incident outside the city’s Green Zone was the latest in a series of terrorist bombings in which woman have been used to launch attacks.

At least 18 people, including 15 women, died in the two Monday attacks, officials said.

In the Green Zone incident, two women — one reportedly pregnant — were among the five victims when an explosives vest strapped to the mentally disabled woman detonated in a line of workers waiting to be searched at a checkpoint, The Times of London reported.

The Green Zone, also known as the International Zone, houses Iraqi government offices and the headquarters of U.S. forces in Iraq.

In an earlier explosion, 13 women died on a bus taking them to work at the Iraqi Trade Ministry building when the vehicle was blasted by a so-called sticky bomb attached to its side, the newspaper said.

A U.S. military spokesman said that two Iraqi army members and three civilians were among the dead in the second attack.