The law of unintended consequences can be very, very harsh.
Times Online (via MoJo Blog):
A newborn baby was one of at least 14 children and adults killed when a suicide bomber detonated a lorry laden with explosives close to a primary school in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk yesterday.
The latest massacre of Iraqi children came as 21 Shia market workers were ambushed, bound and shot dead north of the capital. The victims came from the Baghdad market visited the previous day by John McCain, the US presidential candidate, who said that an American security plan in the capital was starting to show signs of progress.
It seems to me that this is almost undoubtedly a reaction to McCain BS tour. As he tries to prove it's safe, others prove it's not -- brutally. No mention of this incident yet from the Straight Talk Express. As I wrote yesterday, McCain seems to believe that his chance at the presidency is a cause worth dying for -- so long as it's someone else doing all the dying.
Not only hasn't he commented on the incident, but he won't. It never happened, because it proves him wrong in the best light and shows him as a BS artist in the worst...
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