No plastic turkeys for Bush this year.

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Yesterday was a bad day in Baghdad, a timed group of bombs went off near the same time all over the city, one going off in a crowded vegetable market.

From the New York Times (reg req)

In the deadliest sectarian attack in Baghdad since the American-led invasion, explosions from five powerful car bombs and a mortar shell tore through crowded intersections and marketplaces in the teeming Shiite district of Sadr City on Thursday afternoon, killing at least 144 people and wounding 206, the police said.

The coordinated bombings followed a two-hour siege by dozens of Sunni Arab insurgents against the headquarters of the Shiite-run Health Ministry in northeastern Baghdad, about three miles west of Sadr City, according to ministry officials. The gunmen, shooting from nearby buildings and surrounding streets, pelted the ministry with mortar shells and gunfire, though they fled when Iraqi troops and American military helicopters arrived, the officials and witnesses said.

The attacks were the worst in an intensifying series of revenge killings in recent months, in a cycle that has increasingly paralyzed the political process and segregated the capital into Sunni and Shiite enclaves, and threatened to drag Iraq into an all-out civil war.

So far, the only thing from Bush, are the phone calls he placed to ten members of the military and wished them a happy Thanksgiving... from Camp David. Only four were serving in Iraq.

At least he had the good taste NOT to parade around the soldiers mess hall in Baghdad with a plastic turkey and posing for photographers this time.