175 dead in northern Iraq in "one of the worst incidents of its kind"

Horrible attack in Iraq's civil war today. The death toll in the endless just keeps skyrocketing. Horrible:

Suicide bombers driving fuel tankers killed at least 175 people in apparently coordinated attacks in northwestern Iraq Tuesday, the Iraqi army said, in one of the worst incidents of its kind in the four-year-old war.

Iraqi army captain Mohammad al-Jaad said at least another 200 people were wounded in the bombings in Yazidi residential compounds in the Kahtaniya, al-Jazeera and Tal Uzair areas near the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar, close to the Syrian border.

The mayor of Sinjar, Dakheel Qassim Hasoun, gave the same casualty figures.

Police said the bombings appeared to target the Yazidis, members of a pre-Islamic Kurdish sect who live in northern Iraq and Syria.

The United States has sent an additional 30,000 troops to Iraq this year and moved them from large bases into small neighborhood outposts in an effort to reduce sectarian violence in the capital and surrounding provinces.

The United States cannot keep sending troops to quell a civil war. But, Bush has no real plan to end the quagmire that he created. He'll probably send more troops. So, you know, all that talk about a draft is real. Just because Bush said publicly he doesn't think it's necessary doesn't mean a thing. Bush lies.

AP has a list of the "deadliest attacks" in Iraq -- including the one today. Gruesome.