Baghdad Car Bombs Kill at Least 136

Clearly it is his fault. I mean clearly it has 100% to do with his plans. Our new President has obviously not had enough time to do anything except win a peace prize for providing hope that all the violence caused by his predeccesor will end....

Now, I'll take my sarcastic hat off. Does the last President bear some responsibility... ABSOLUTELY! But, blaming it fully on him while advocating or implying that our poor new President has no ability to fix anything is naive and ridiculous. The truth lies in the middle ,which is that Fundamentalist Islam is fueled by hatred of the western world and western ideas. This attack had little to do with killing people and a lot to do with showing the world that the Iraqi government can't provide stability/ security which in turn makes the west look weak. Whether we are in Iraq or Afghanistan or we pack up all of our military toys and go home, the insurgents/ terrorists are not going to go away and in fact will bring the party to our front door. If we really want to get into a debate over which president is repsonsible for inciting the Islamic world we need to get into the way back machine. President Clinton didn't help by appearing weak in Somalia or by largely leaving them to their own devices and ignoring the brewing storm. But go back further, President Bush, Sr didn't help by leaving Soldiers in Saudi Arabia after Desert Storm in 1990 (of course the side note is that the Saudis weren't helpful by ignoring and marginalizing Bin Laden when he offered help for the war). President Reagen didn't help by pushing capitalism (in order to defeat Communism) which in turn marginilized the Middle East. President Carter clearly did not have good relations with the Middle East, ie- Iran. We could keep going back for about 50 years prior to that and maybe we'd be at a point where we could say, "Oh! That's where things went wrong..." The basic thing to understand about the Middle East is that they are not like us in any form. They are not better, they are not worse, they are just different. Things in our culture that are taken totally for granted are absolutely foriegn to them and the same applies coming this way. The current conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan has little to do with governments and leadership, and the military is just a tool that is being used. Both conflicts, the brewing tension with Iran, and the general discontent within the Middle East is all about ideology. Until we (them and us) are able to come to an agreement on how we are going to live and interact as humans there will always be conflict. The bad news for us in the western world is that they are far more adept at and willing to kill, than we are. I wouldn't start holding my breath that the violence is going to end anytime soon. In setting a realistic goal, I'm hoping I see peace across this region sometime before 2050.

Maybe you should use your passport so we can see how it will do without you...

This will happen when you occupy someone else's country for no good reason.