Iraq

The Surge Worked

Look how peaceful Christmas was in Iraq:

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Bob Strong / Reuters

BAGHDAD — At least 25 people were killed when a suicide bomber rammed his truck into a line of Iraqis waiting for cooking gas near a checkpoint outside the Baiji oil refinery in northern Iraq, the police said Tuesday.

Elsewhere:

Two hours later, nine people were killed and 22 wounded by a suicide bomber in Mualmeen, west of Baquba, the capital of Diyala Province, Iraqi hospital officials said. But the American military in Tikrit said that four people were killed and 19 were wounded.

I thought the war was over.