While the Libby trial rockets around in the political sphere here in the United States, Iraq is seeing some of the worst violence it’s had since the war began. Today, roughly 150 died in attacks, including 115 in a single suicide bombing attack.

Two suicide bombers strapped with explosives detonated themselves almost simultaneously in a busy street lined with tents in the city of Hilla, south of Baghdad, killing 115 people, local hospital officials said.

The tents had been set up to offer food, drink and resting areas for pilgrims. At least 200 people were wounded in that attack, the hospital officials said.

Someone suggested to me that it’s possible for the attacker to have been a Shia himself. After all, such an attack would drum up unbelievable unifying hatred against the Sunnis and further along the war between the two factions. Is that better? Worse? Honestly I’d say it’s hardly either.

What things like this illustrate, more than anything, is that the fighting inside Iraq is not about hating freedom or disrupting democracy. It has nothing to do with breaking America’s will. It’s about two factions within Iraq that so despise each other that they’ll blow themselves up to kill more of their enemies, or perhaps blow up themselves and their own to inspire more to join in the fight.