Truck bombs detonated at the Foreign Ministry and the Finance Ministry left at least 95 dead and nearly 600 wounded. Khalid Mohammed/Associated PressBaghdad Bombings Question: Did U.S. Draw Back Too Fast? -- McClatchy News
BAGHDAD — The deadly bombings Wednesday in Baghdad near two key government ministries raise questions about whether U.S. and Iraqi officials have moved too quickly to dismantle many of the security steps that brought about a dramatic drop in bloodshed in the Iraqi capital in the last two years.
Neither American officials in Washington nor Iraqi officials in Baghdad seemed willing to entertain bringing U.S. troops back into the city, however, even as violence has risen over the last two months.
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