BAGHDAD IN CHAOS AFTER BOMBINGS LEAVE DOZENS DEAD

Question of the day:

Do these events jive more closely with

A) Don Rumsfeld's outward statements to the press
B) Don Rumsfeld's private memos

A series of suicide bombings shook Baghdad early today, including an attack on the offices of the International Committee of the Red Cross and blasts at four Iraqi police stations that punctuated two days of bloody violence in this capital city.

Iraq's police chief and deputy interior minister, Ahmad Ibrahim, said at a news conference that 34 people had been killed and 224 had been wounded in the attacks. He said 26 of the dead were civilians and 8 were police officers; 65 police officers and 159 civilians were wounded.

The explosions plunged the capital into chaos at the outset of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. Ambulances raced through the streets and smoke rose from smoldering cars blown up in the blasts. Iraqi police officers dug through rubble to search for bodies.

[buggyprof]Hey, at least there wasn't an outflow of refugees! It's going great![/buggyprof]

UPDATE: Via Billmon, we see that this new wave of attacks gives the Bushies another chance to trot out their favorite word: "desperate".