Another bad day in Iraq.

(Reuters) "A huge truck bomb killed more than 100 people and wounded 250 in a crowded market in northern Iraq on Saturday, one of the deadliest attacks in the country this year, police said."

Separately, (BBC) "22 people who died overnight in Diyala province when a suicide bomber hit a cafe."

From the AP version,

The attack's location suggested it was carried out by Sunni extremists fleeing the three-week old U.S. offensive centered at the city of Baqouba, 60 miles to the south on Baghdad's northern doorstep.....

The U.S. military may be forced to tolerate attacks further north as they focus on pacifying Baghdad and its surroundings, hoping that calm in the capital will give the government time to take key political steps.

Somehow, I think the use of that word "tolerate" really says alot.

(And, I can't get that quote from yesterday out of my head. "According to Iraq's Ministry of the Interior, one quarter of all injuries from the violence in Iraq involves the loss of at least one limb." At least 250 wounded today.....)